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" He was a keen observer and a capital describer. He investigated accurately, worked readily and easily with microscope, pencil and pen, wrote perspicuously, and where the subject permitted, with captivating grace ; affording, in his lighter productions... "
The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 279
1866
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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,...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 18

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,...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 18

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...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 18

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,...
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Essays: biographical sketches, 1841-1886

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,...
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Makers of British Botany: A Collection of Biographies by Living Botanists

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...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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,...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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,...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

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...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 18

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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