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Excerpt from Studies in Plant and Organic Chemistry and Literary Papers
My governess, a highly instructed, conscientious Catholic, saw me reading this book and studying the plates representing the human skeleton. She remonstrated with me for my inter est in the subject, and said that Catholic teaching did not favor such studies for youth. There never had been, as far as I know, any one in my family who had been devoted to a scientific life, although my father's father had shown an interest in botany, and at one time followed in New Jersey the calling of phar macist.
My father was of an active, inquiring mind, but he had never devoted himself to any special scientific studies. I had been told that some generations back ancestors on my mother's side had been scholars, graduates from foreign universities, but I always inferred that their interest ran more in literary lines.
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