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51_46 East Grinstead, Aug. 3, 1930. as a guest was a Mr. Beamish, an Irish gentleman from Cork, witty, good-natured, full of highly humerous anecdote. How he entertained us at tea! He has been to many places and knows many persons, such as Sir Thomas Lipton and various other public figures._ He gave his definition of a gentleman as one who could do anything, who need not be held back for fear of social disfavor; while those who will not do various things for fear of the public, who hold aloof from this or that, are placed in a fake position, are not sincere and direct. Like most Irishmen he has a warm heart. Cried he of a certain man: "He has a geniune enthusiasm; I like him for that." _ He had met C. P. Huntington. |
51_47 Kew Herbarium, Aug. 6, 1930 - Came into the herbarium today R. Kent Beattie of the U.S.D.A., freshly back from the Far East, where he has been for two or three years searching for blight resistant chestnuts in China and Japan. In one year he collected and sent home to Washington in cold storage 125 bushels of seed, the next year 128 bushels of seed. These are now being grown as seedlings at the Deaprtment's nursery near Washington and transplanted into the woodlands of Virginia where the blight is rampant. Beattie is following up the footsteps of Robert Brown of Campster along the Pacific Coast. It seems, apparently Beatty (sic) so intimated, that Brown was the first to see Picea Breweriana. |
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