396 CORRESPONDENCE. [1853, 



If he holds Unitarian views, as I have been told, 

 he will perhaps be more favorably situated, just in 

 Boston or Cambridge, than in England, and probably 

 meet more cultivated and more religious people of 

 that persuasion than at home. But if he sympathizes 

 rather with Francis Newman and that school, as 

 some one tells me, I should think he would not find 

 that class of people here very attractive to him. But 

 I hope that is not his bent. I have no partiality for 

 Unitarianism, though it is the faith of near and valued 

 friends. I am an orthodox Presbyterian, as my fathers 

 were. But in England I should be a Churchman, 

 although a pretty low one, at least in some respects ; 

 and I am a most hearty well-wisher to the Church of 

 England. So pray, when settled in your parish, just 

 drop me a line to say where you are, and how old 

 your parish church is ; for hankering after antiquities 

 is, as an Oxford man told me, a great failing of 

 Americans. 



TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 



CAMBRIDGE, March 28, 1853. 



MY DEAR FRIEND, I am all the more glad that I 

 can direct your attention to the fourth volume (new 

 series) of the " Memoirs of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences," p. 382, where you will find your 

 name enrolled as the sole Honorary Member for Swit- 

 zerland. 



Ordinarily neither you nor I would be at all solici- 

 tous for such recognition. I care not to have them 

 except where (as in the Linnsean Society of London, 

 the French Academy, and your own society of Ge- 

 neva) I well know the nominations are strictly and 

 conscientiously weighed, and where the list to be 



