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| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1868 - 518 pages
...systematic botany generally, he had now an eminent position. He was a keen observer and a capital describen He investigated accurately, worked readily and easily...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1880 - 876 pages
...probably he has left no superior ; in systematic botany generally, he had now an eminent position. Ho was a keen observer and a capital describer. He investigated...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1880 - 902 pages
...botany generally, he had now an eminent position. He was a keen observer and a capital describen Ho investigated accurately, worked readily and easily...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him weU. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted, but... | |
| 1880 - 874 pages
...permitted, with captivating grace; affording, in his lighter productions, mere glimpses of the wann and poetical imagination, delicate humor, refined...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
| Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 552 pages
...Algology, his favorite branch, he left probably no superior ; in systematic botany generally he had won an eminent position. He was a keen observer and a...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
| Francis Wall Oliver - Botanists - 1913 - 404 pages
...was a keen observer and a capital describer. He investigated accurately, worked easily and readily with microscope, pencil, and pen, wrote perspicuously,...glimpses of the warm and poetical imagination, delicate humour, refined feeling, and sincere goodness which were charmingly revealed in intimate intercourse... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1872 - 518 pages
...few botanists of our day who excelled bott in phsenogamic and cryptogamic botany. In algology, his favorite branch, probably he has left no superior...and which* won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 522 pages
...systematic botany generally, he had now an eminent position. Ho was a keen observer and a capital describes He investigated accurately, worked readily and easily...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
| 1866 - 924 pages
...few botanists of our day who excelled both in phaenogarnic and cryptogamic botany. In Algology, his favorite branch, probably he has left no superior...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted but... | |
| Science - 1880 - 938 pages
...few botanists of our day who excelled both in phaenogamio and cryptogamic botany. In algology, his favorite branch, probably he has left no superior...correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted,... | |
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