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demands upon your time or attention. But I should 

 like him to see you, and perhaps he might through 

 you pay his respects to the savans in his line, notably 

 to De la Kive. Having wife, etc., with him, and little 

 time, his visit will be transient. Eliot is a chemist 

 and physicist, a man of much promise, we think, and 

 a most gentlemanly man. He is a very trusty friend 

 of mine. He has passed the autumn and winter in 

 Paris, studying hard, and will soon return here, 

 bringing the latest news of you. He and his lady 

 companions are just such people as we should like you 

 to know America by. 



I should say to you, moreover, that I gave to an- 

 other colleague of mine, Professor Cooke, a note to 

 you. He is a chemist and mineralogist, is full of re- 

 search and zeal, a most estimable man. 



You know, perhaps, that I have made over (or am 

 to make over) all my herbarium and library to our 

 university, in consideration of a fireproof building 

 made to receive them, and a fund, of moderate extent, 

 raised for the permanent support. . . . During the 

 summer or early autumn, my collections will be trans- 

 ferred to this their permanent home, to my great relief. 



It is probable that I shall continue to spend upon 

 these collections all my available means, and I hope 

 they will be of use in the future, as well as safe, which 

 they are not in my wooden house. My own donation 

 is reckoned in money value at about 20,000. 



Charles Wright is expected home from Cuba soon, 

 when there will be a new and interesting distribu- 

 tion of his phgenogamous plants. 



We trust that our civil war is in its last year, that 

 is, if we are victorious, as we hope to be. In that 

 case your American stocks will be all right again. 



