Although the author had never set foot in New Zealand, yet, with the aid of a considerable number of herbarium specimens, and of whatever literature was available, he wrote an œcological account of the vegetation of New Zealand and its adjacent islands.

It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.

On the subject of a semi-patriotic speech of the Menshevik Cheidze, at the beginning of the war, the president of the Duma, Rodzianko, wrote: “Subsequent events proved the closeness of Cheidze to German circles.”

The finny trophies he brought back in the form of numerous fat pickerel were ample evidence of his fishermanship.