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42_22 New York and casual, and gave the impression that he had not prepared his paper in any orderly fashion, or at least not in a way to bring out the salient facts. He had an enormous number of small or detailed facts regarding each day's collecting or the collecting at a particular station - and he was constantly thinking of other similar facts which he had not put down in his papers p and indulging abrupt diversions to bring them in. He gave the impression that he could go on forever in this [desulary] way and Howe whispered to me that he was very "long-winded." I found it difficult to hear him, partly because of his foreign accent, partly because of the monotonous indistinct mode |
42_23 Jan 6, 1926 of delivery and partly because of the barn-like character of the hall in which he talked. He is a much older man than I expected to see. He has white-gray hair, white moustache, whit or white-gray goatee. His whole attitude was mild and gentle - and one contrasted this with the rather bold and militant and revolutionary tone and effect produced by his most formal systematic papers. The Botanical Garden has apparently but one building outside the conservatories and greenhouses. This is a large somewhat grandiose stone building. The first floor is mainly a display of economic botany, the second floor of systematic botany, the third and the top floor being devoted to |
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