A Gloucestershire wild garden with some extraneous matter / by the Curator [Henry Cook].
- Cook, Henry (c. 1831-1927)
- Date:
- 1903
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A Gloucestershire wild garden with some extraneous matter / by the Curator [Henry Cook]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Ill A PASSING CONVERSATION E—that is, the Professor, the Padre, and down the path that leads to the wild garden, when the Padre asked me the name of a particular Pine which I had planted there, and my memory played me one of those tricks which it has been in the habit now of doing—that is, of utterly refusing to give me the name of a thing which I ordinarily know as well as my own name. ‘ Never mind,’ I said, ‘just now; the name will come back to me by-and-by, when we are talking of something else.’ ‘ Ah,’ said the Professor, ‘ you have only men- tally to give the order, and the memory, as we usually call it, will, without your further attention, search out the name in one of the pigeon-holes in which it lies stored up, and represent it to your mind.’ Curator. ‘ Why do you say the “ memory as we usually call it ” ?’ myself (the Curator) — were strolling [ i9 ] 2—2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24974808_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
