Excerpt from Memoir of John Leconte, 1818-1891: Read Before the National Academy, April, 1894 To supply this garden he made many excursions, often with visit ing botanists or collectors, sometimes lasting several days, and always returning laden with botanical treasures. As evidence of his keen perception of the true affinities of plants, it is noteworthy that although the Linnean system was at that time universally used, yet even at this early day he always Spoke of the affinities of plants in terms of their natural orders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Memoir of John Leconte, 1818-1891 : Read before the National Academy, April, 1894 (Classic Reprint)