"But who was he ?" "I don't know yet," I returned.

"I can only see that his name was Sibthorpe." "Sibthorpe!" he exclaimed excitedly.

"Why, this is the very memorial I've been looking for all over the abbey and had pretty well given up all hopes of finding it." With that he went to it and began studying the inscription, which was in Latin.

John Sibthorpe, I found, was a distinguished botanist, author of the Flora Graeca, who died over a century ago.
I asked him why he was interested in Sibthorpe's memorial.
"Well, you see, I'm a great botanist myself," he explained, "and have been familiar with his name and work all my life.

Of course," he added, "I don't mean I'm great in the sense that Sibthorpe was.