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It was in Aug. [August] or Sept. [September]. I became an assistant in the Herbarium at the University. It was the next year, I think, that C.G. Michener and F.T. Bioletti appeared as students in the Herbarium. With one or two exceptions no other person ever flung nasty remarks at me as maliciously and continuously as C.G. Michener. It is to me now a strange thing looking back upon it, that this malice was almost totally disregarded-strange, because when young I was very hot-tempered.
When growing up as a youth it never occurred to me one could earn his living at Botany. Botany was purely a hobby, an outdoor recreation. Therefore, when the opportunity came for a position in Botany it was a
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