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bly either to Jamaica (where Dr. Alexander now is) or 

 to the mountains at the St. lago end of Cuba, a terra 

 incognita nearly. Harvey is a most winning man ; my 

 wife and I have become extremely attached to him, 

 and are sorry to part with him. 



We do not mean to let any naturalist be idle who 

 comes to this country, so he is already engaged to give 

 illustrations of our peculiar Alga3 for the Smithsonian 

 contributions and to prepare (after his return home, 

 of course) a manual of United States Algae after the 

 fashion of his second edition of " British Alga3." 

 There will be no small demand for it. ... 



P. S. Mr. Wright got through to El Paso in 

 southern New Mexico, and is on his way back, with, 

 he says, a fine collection. 



We got some fine daguerreotypes of Harvey, so 

 much better, he says, than he has seen in England 

 that he has had an extra one taken for Lady Hooker. 



TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 



CAMBRIDGE, January 7, 1850. 



Your letter of December 4th and your very flattering 

 article in the December number of " Hooker's Jour- 

 nal " were both most gratifying ; and the remarks on 

 the Mimosa were timely, as I was just about con- 

 signing the manuscript of the earlier part of the new 

 " Plantae Lindheimerianae " to the printer. I like 

 what you say about " deduplication " much, and freely 

 accept almost all. I took the name coined to my 

 hand, not feeling at liberty to coin a new one. I 

 think the production of new organs one before the 

 other can be pretty well explained morphologically 

 and anatomically, in accordance with your hint, and 

 shall attempt to work it out in the third edition of my 



