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A great loss in Forbes's death. I have been trembling 

 lest I should hear that Dr. Hooker is chosen to the 

 chair at Edinburgh, which would give him very good 

 pay, I suppose, and he would fill the place well, but 

 it would take him away from special botany, which 

 would be a great pity. . . . 



TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 



May 29, 1855. 



The class which leaves college this summer have be- 

 spoken photographic likenesses, on paper, of their pro- 

 fessors, my colleagues and myself, and this gives 

 me an opportunity of obtaining from the artist some 

 duplicate copies of that for which I sat, and which Mrs. 

 Gray pronounces a very good likeness. 



It is not so much vanity that induces me to ask you 

 to accept of the copy I inclose, as the hope of get- 

 ting yours in return, if that same style be adopted in 

 Geneva, and be as little expensive as here, to add to 

 the already considerable number of portraits of bota- 

 nists which make the chief adornment of my rooms, 

 among which the fine engraving of your distinguished 

 father is conspicuous. I need not say that I should 

 be glad to place the likeness of the son near to that of 

 the father. Ever, my dear De Candolle, 



Your sincere and faithful, ASA GRAY. 



TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 



August 28, 1855. 



For a long while now I have been waiting for a 

 good evening when I was not too tired to write you 

 a long letter to meet you in California, in return, 

 though a poor return, for your several nice letters 

 from China. 



