Marie-Victorin evoked the emotion experienced by a botanist who discovers a new species: Telling yourself: I am the first man ever to examine this feat of Nature and share it with others! ... is really something!
Here we see Brother L?on collecting the type (reference specimen) of a new species of palm, Coccothrinax, which he baptized Victorini in honour of his colleague.
The distinction was reported in Le Devoir newspaper, back in Montr?al! | 
UdeM: E0118Album1Coccothrinax
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Acrocoma pilosa palm leaves
