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fix it all up for you and read the proofs once, and so 

 save you the worry. And I urgently request you to 

 send this line to Professor Henry, as embodying my 

 opinion, and my offer of help. 



I am sure that if the rest of my manuscript is called 

 for, I shall turn it over with satisfaction, though the 

 same applies to it as to yours. And I should either 

 alter accordingly or add notes. 



The rest of your letter I will respond to in due 

 time. 



But I feel concerned to have those Oregon plates 

 out. 



I think I have some right to, as I paid for one 

 hundred of them ; but that is no matter. They are 

 now neither published nor unpublished, which is a 

 bad state of things. 



Dr. Gray had the manuscript prepared some years 

 before for the second volume of the " United States 

 Exploring Expedition," and notified the library com- 

 mittee that he was ready for publishing. Meantime 

 came the war, and there was no money or thought for 

 such things. When the country was again quiet and 

 prosperous, the library committee who had formerly 

 known and been interested in the work and its print- 

 ing had passed away ; there was no one to care for it, 

 and the manuscript was never called for. 



TO CHARLES DARWIN. 



CAMBRIDGE, March 7, 1872. 



Mr. Packard, one of our best entomologists, a most 

 excellent and modest man, has asked to be introduced 

 to you, that he may pay his respects. 



I shy or refuse such applications generally, saying 



