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69_22 Nuttall, Thos. Nuttall's language is horrible; but as you say he is accurate. I adopt the substance of most of his descriptions.-Amos Eaton to John Torrey, quoted from McAllister, p. 228. (see p. 21, ante.) Also p. 246; p. 271. Gray, Asa. His arrogance towards Amos Eaton. "Mr. Gray (unmasked) interfered, as if he-though he said we-held the destination of the science in his hands, and that the ground whereon he stood was Holy." Amos Eaton to John Torrey, in litt. cf. McAllister, "Amos Eaton, Scientist and Educator," p. 238. Greene, E.L., had the power to make decisions more promptly than any other systematic botanist I knew. Many botanists (taxonomists) can get nowhere because they cannot come |
69_23 to decisions. cf. W.L. Jepson to Mabel B. Peirson, in Jepson correspond., Jan. 28, 1946. As to Greene personally: he made friends with great ease, partly on account of a certain luminous welcome in his countenance, in his smile, largely because of the grace, intelligence and dignity of his conversation. In this way he gained the friendship of the learned and of families with social position. cont. p. 24. Mrs. Marian Parsons called on me at my home, 11 Mosswood Road, yesterday. She knew Wm. Keith, the painter, well from rather early girlhood. She was taken to his studio by friends who were friends of Keith. He had Chinese gongs hanging in his studio (in San Francisco). At times he would take a stick and |
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