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Some day you must have a picture of our camp on 

 La Veta Pass. I wish there could have been one of 

 the Shasta camp of the Bidwells. 



TO CHARLES DARWIN. 



CAMBRIDGE, September 27, 1877. 



MY DEAK DAHWIN, Returning from our ten 

 and a half weeks of travel, which has been every 

 way prospered and pleasant, I find your book. 1 I 

 can now barely thank you for it, and for the great 

 compliment of the dedication. I must not open 

 it till Hooker leaves me, a week hence, the work 

 we have to do before we part being so great and 

 pressing. Then I shall turn to it, with enjoyment, 

 and as soon as I can find time I must notice or re- 

 view it. 



Hooker sends his love ; is very glad Cohn has taken 

 up your son's experiments on Dipsacus, which reminds 

 me to send my best thanks to him for the copy ad- 

 dressed to me. For perusal, even for a glance, that, 

 too, must wait till we have worked up the collections 

 and observations we have made in our journey to the 

 Pacific. 



Let me add, being sure of your sympathy, that 

 our poor dog Max peacefully breathed his last to-day, 

 after a happy life of twelve or thirteen years. We 

 are glad he lived till we returned, and greeted us 

 with his absorbing and touching affection. In a few 

 days came a partial paralysis, some convulsions, and 

 then a quiet and seemingly painless ending. He is 

 immortalized in your book on Expression, and will 

 live in the memory of his attached master and mis- 

 tress. 



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