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51_88 Cambridge, England After the session I went to the huge garden party in the grounds of Downing College, given by the Master of Downing and his wife, Professor and Mrs. A.C. Seward. Here I met Miss G. Lister, [F.L.S] specially introduced to me by Dr. J.B. Davy. Miss Lister has been using my Manual. I also met Dr. Agnes Arber, the botanist, and Dr. R.R. Gates. Also Dr. Margaret Ferguson of Wellesley, and Dr. and Mrs. A.J. Eames of Cornell, Mrs. Eames a very pretty woman indeed. On the way to the Garden party I fell in with Richard St. Barbe Baker, author of the book "The Brotherhood of the Trees", a book to stimulate individual tree planting. He is a forester and is going next year to New Zealand or |
51_89 Aug. 29, 1930 Australia via California in order to see the Redwoods. He seemed to me a fine chap, a graduate of Cambridge, a student of A.C. Seward to whom he presented me. (Cont. p. 141) This morning I went to the plant geography session and head Dr. H.H. Allan, New Zealand on Jordanous. He referred to lumping and splitting though not quite sure what we are lumping or splitting. He quoted Latsy as saying that intelligible variability does not exist. He quoted Hooker's essay and Hooker's remark that he could not examine within his time limits all the New Zealand plants wherever they occurred in the world; that he must leave to those who came after him. Allan considered carefully the introduced plants in New Zealand, comparing them with their parents in |
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