. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. mediate influence of Divine inspiration. He held this ground strongly when the general view ofthe Bible was narrower than of late years. As the yearswent on he grew broader and sweeter, feeling wider sym-pathy with all true, devout religious belief. He was a con-stant church-goer, everywhere. On June n, 1850, Dr. Gray sailed for a second tripto Europe. The steamers were then making regular trips,but as the packets were still runn
. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. mediate influence of Divine inspiration. He held this ground strongly when the general view ofthe Bible was narrower than of late years. As the yearswent on he grew broader and sweeter, feeling wider sym-pathy with all true, devout religious belief. He was a con-stant church-goer, everywhere. On June n, 1850, Dr. Gray sailed for a second tripto Europe. The steamers were then making regular trips,but as the packets were still running, they sailed by packet,hoping to benefit Mrs. Grays health. He had had corre-spondence with all the great men of Europe in his line, andit was a great pleasure and profit for him to have thisopportunity for meeting them face to face. He was now avery busy man, carrying on a large correspondence of ascientific character, keeping his botanical text-books in theirnew editions up with advanced science, looking after hisbotanical garden, all of this, together with his college work,gave him work enough for a giant. His biographer saysof him: 339 THE HALL OF FAME. Dr. Gray was an immense worker. After his morningmail was received and looked over, that he might answerany imperative questions, he took daylight for his scientificwork, and, with pauses for meals, and the necessary inter-ruptions that came at times, he kept steadily on all the wrote his letters and his elementary botanical worksmostly in the evening. But in his younger days his eyeswere unusually strong, and he would work with the micro-scope by lamp-light, as readily as by daylight. Though a steady and unwearying worker he was notrapid. He would throw aside sheet after sheet to berewritten, especially if there was anything he wished tomake particularly clear and strong, or any reasoning to beworked out from the soundest point of view. It was alwaysa wonder to those about him that he could stand as he didthe unc
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