^T. 25.] TO W. J. HOOKER. 57 



know as little of Regensburg and the Regensburg peo- 

 ple who have done us such honor as a certain old lady 

 did of the famous King of Prussia ; but I ratherly 

 think it means Ratisbon. . . . 



Box of plants and box of bones are here ; the plants 

 certainly look the more antediluvian of the two. The 

 specimens are wretched and mostly devoid of interest. 

 The bones will be served up at the Lyceum this even- 

 ing. . . . On the same day last week I received a 

 letter from Dewey, 1 and another from Carey, and ac- 

 cording to both their accounts they must have been 

 in raptures with each other. Dewey sends love to 

 friend Torrey, and Carey kind regards to Dr. and 

 Mrs. T. Dewey says Carey is rather savage upon 

 species, and where Carey has not given him a favora- 

 ble opinion upon any, it would amuse you to see how 

 Dewey has detailed them to me, in order if possible 

 to save the poor creatures' lives. Dewey has a good 

 spirit and is altogether a most estimable man, and I am 

 sorry that we have to pull down any of his work. I 

 must write him a few things, that it may not come 

 upon him all at once. .... Yours truly, 



A. GRAY. 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



NEW YORK, April 7, 1836. 



DEAR SIR, I take the opportunity of acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of your two kind letters, which 

 reached me a few weeks since nearly at the same time, 

 one by the Liverpool packet and the other by the 

 Lady Hannah Ellice. Allow me also to thank you 



1 Chester Dewey, 1784-1887 ; professor in Williams College, Massa- 

 chusetts. Removed to Rochester, N. Y., 1836, where he died. " C^r- 

 ried on the study of Carex and published on them for more than forty 

 years " [A. G.j. 



