. 63.] TO CHARLES DARWIN. 645 



November 26. 



... I am going this morning to witness the nuptials 

 of my colleague and friend Professor Sargent and a 

 charming young lady of Boston ; and, on the chance 

 of their having a day in Geneva, I wish to introduce 

 the happy couple to you and Madame De Candolle. 

 They will tell you much of me, and of the satisfying 

 and I trust useful sort of life I am now leading. 

 Some evidence of renewed botanical activity in the 

 form of a couple of botanical papers just issued here, 

 too bulky to send well by post, I will cause to reach 

 you by way of Paris. 



Professor Sargent is given to horticulture and 

 arboriculture. He not only takes charge of the uni- 

 versity Botanic Garden, but also of a recent and 

 noble foundation for an arboretum, from which much 

 may in due time be expected. 



It is most pleasant and hopeful when, as in the 

 present instance, a young man of means and best 

 social position chooses to devote his time and energies 

 to practical scientific ends, rather than to business or 

 pleasure. You are more accustomed to that at Geneva 

 than we are here in America. 



I know that, before this can reach you, I shall have 

 occasion to write to you, and to announce the recep- 

 tion of the last volume of the " Prodromus," now on 

 the way to me. So I have only to add that I am 

 always Very sincerely yours, 



ASA GRAY. 



TO CHARLES DARWIN. 



May 12, 1874. 



... I sent to Hooker to forward to you two articles 

 in the " Nation," on Insectivorous Plants, written to 



