450 CORRESPONDENCE. [1859, 



TO JOHN TORREY. 



January 7, 1859. 



MY DEAK FRIEND, I will send your bundles pre- 

 sently, after Tuesday next, till when I must work like 

 a dog, to get through the Japan collection, and read a 

 paper on Tuesday at a social meeting of the Academy 

 at Mr. Loring's house that evening (January llth). 

 Now come on (if by day train), stop there, 8 Ashbur- 

 ton Place, where I will be. 



I am going to hold forth for nearly an hour, upon 

 Japan botany in its relation to ours and the rest 

 of the northern temperate zone, and knock out the 

 underpinning of Agassiz's theories about species and 

 their origin ; show, from the very facts that stumbled 

 De Candolle, the high probability of single and local 

 creation of species, turning some of Agassiz's own 

 guns against him. 



I introduced it here at Club, last month, and Agas- 

 siz took it very w r ell, indeed. . . . 



I asked Thurber the name of a couple of Grasses. ' 

 Let the Grass-man speak ; now that he is turned out 

 to grass, let him attend to his grazing. 



February 19. 



Andersson writes me that I am chosen one of the six 

 botanists on the foreign list of Stockholm Academy, 

 to fill the vacancy caused by Robert Brown's death. 



Friday evening 1 , [April]. 



I have your two favors of 12th and 15th. I am 

 very grateful for the nice care you take of my wife. 

 You seem to have her under very thorough control. 



Cure her up fast as you can, and please return her 

 per railway on the 3d of May ; for the 4th being the 



