...eventually he so warmly cherished. ' " The Botanical Professor," he says, in one of his letters, " gives annually a gold medal to such of his pupils...disagreeable ideas I have formed of the study of botany."' The successful termination of his studies was crowned in the year 1766 by the acquisition of the degree...

...have been imagined, for while he was residing as a student at Edinburgh, he thus expresses himself in a letter to his parents. "The Botanical Professor...kind is often productive of the greatest emulation in voung minds, though I confess it will hardly have charm enough to banish the disagreeable ideas I have...

...have been imagined ; for, while he was residing as a student at Edinburgh, he thus expresses himself in a letter to his parents : " The Botanical Professor...young minds, though, I confess, it will hardly have charms enough to banish the disagreeable ideas I have formed of the study of botany." So little was...

...have been imagined; for, while he was residing as a student at Edinburgh, he thus expresses himself in a letter to his parents: " The Botanical Professor...young minds, though, I confess, it will hardly have charms enough to banish the disagreeable ideas I have formed of the study of botany." So little was...

...have been imagined ; for, while he was residing as a student at Edinburgh, he thus expresses himself in a letter to his parents : " The Botanical Professor...annually, a gold medal to such of his pupils as are roost industrious in that branch of science. An incitement of this kind is often productive of the...

..."the most elaborate and complete National Flora of which any country could boast." Withering wrote : "The Botanical Professor gives annually a gold medal...his pupils as are most industrious in that branch of the science. An incitement of this kind is often productive of the greatest emulation in young minds,...