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Show HIS BLINDNESS NO HANDICAP j English Botanist Rose to Heights of Fame, Though Sight Failed Him In Early Life. Mr. J. G. Wilkinson, the famous .j-J blind botanist, lost his sight in his j early life. "During all my paintir.-s'." i he said. "I had always been much ar- I tracted by trees and plants, so I got Fercy Gritnshaw to take me to the j Temple Newsara woods. outside Leeds, to a favorite beech tree there. i snd I asked him to pluck for me a leaf of it. He did so, and with my tongue I began to touch every part of this leaf, and so got Its various detr.il s and characteristics thoroughly into my head, till I was sure I could recognize recog-nize a beech leaf anywhere. From that I began studying leaves from oth-?r trees In a similar manner, unti' I could pick out any of them at once from the mixed lot you gave me. Now (I !.icpe I may say it with all modesty), there is not a leaf, stem, fruit or flower of any plant or tree In ; the British Islands which I do not j know, and should not be able to rec- ognize immediately I had touched it with my tongue, even if not with my hands." |