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annotations on De Candolle's " L'Origine des Plantes 

 Cultivees." If not, let nie know, for you have leisure 

 to read now. 



I am busy with an article on De Candolle's " Nou- 

 velles Remarques sur la Nomenclature." As it may 

 be my last say on the subject, I am going to make a 

 rather elaborate article on nomenclatural and phyto- 

 graphical points, mostly small points, some of which I 

 should have liked to confer with you about. I would 

 have done so, but I feared, in the reported state of 

 your health, to trouble you. 



There are two or three small points, about name- 

 citation and name-making, upon which I shall venture 

 to criticise the " Genera Plantarum." But in almost 

 everything we are in full accord, as you know, and I 

 wish to impress the accordance upon the younger 

 botanists of the United States. Nowadays, more than 

 formerly, they get hold of many books, German and 

 other - - books, many of them, better for substance 

 than for form ; and so our botanists need guidance 

 and some show of authority. 



Engelmann has come home, looking far better than 

 we expected, or than he thought to be ; is visiting Sar- 

 gent, and will soon come to us. ... 



TO SIR EDWARD FRY. 



November 10, 1883. 



In a line which I remember adding to Mrs. Gray's 

 last letter to Lady Fry I expressed a hope and con- 

 fident expectation that we should have done with 

 General Butler as governor of Massachusetts. The 

 election occurred last Tuesday ; an extraordinarily 

 large vote was cast : Butler was defeated by 10,000, 

 and an excellent man, a member of Congress from the 



