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...Gray's scientific work began at a time when the old artificial systems of botany were giving way to the natural system, and with Dr. Torrey, he was among the first to attempt the classification of species on the natural basis of affinity. Four years later, under the joint authorship of Asa Gray and John Torrey, the first part of the "Flora of North America" appeared. Professor Gray presented his herbarium, numbering more than 200,000 specimens, and his library of more than 2,500 botanical works, to Harvard in 1864. He received the degree of A. M. from Harvard...
...that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm basis. And, most strange of all, in the "Life and Letters of Mr. Darwin" now in press, he declares that it was Malthus' Doctrine of Population" which first suggested the theory to his mind also...
Then, too, in Paris the prizes of authorship are golden, and the education in authorship complete; the principal newspapers have on their staffs the most eminent writers of the day, and the Academy, following the proverb that advises one "tenir la dragee haut," holds up a tempting bait for every literary puppy to jump for, and at the same time exerts much influence on thought and style. So both newspapers and the Academy join in offering at once education and promise of reward to every literary aspirant...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Some baseless rumors being in circulation in regard to the authorship of the article in the Boston Globe on "Students' Rooms," it is proper to say that none of the inmates of the rooms illustrated are responsible for any part of the article. The bad taste displayed lies at the door of the writer of the piece...
...grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides the agony of authorship, more poignant than the sorrows of Werther, with which some poems, now hidden in the brains of their authors and the basket of the editor, have been forged. And yet it is from such a school that the poets of the future are to come...