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TO JOHN TORREY. 



CAMBRIDGE, January 3, 1843. 



Your letter, truly welcome after so long an inter- 

 val, reached me yesterday. I should have been very 

 glad to be with you during the holidays, but cannot 

 think of leaving before I finish these interminable 

 Composite. I hoped to have accomplished this on 

 Saturday last ; all but taking up some dropped 

 stitches ; but was a good deal interrupted last week. 

 The December number of " Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History " (of which Professor Balfour is the 

 botanical editor) contains a very complimentary no- 

 tice of the " Botanical Text-Book," accompanied with 

 a few judicious selections, which shows that the writer 

 has looked it over carefully ; and winds up by term- 

 ing it the best elementary treatise (as to structural 

 botany) in the English language. So easy is it to get 

 praise where it is not particularly deserved ! . . . 



My great object for next year is to attempt to raise 

 $10,000 from some of our rich men, to rebuild our 

 greenhouse on a larger and handsome scale. There 

 are a few men, who have never given anything to the 

 college, who may perhaps be induced to give for this 

 object. 



TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



CAMBRIDGE, MASS., February 13, 1843. 



I note with interest what you propose in regard to 

 Lindheimer's collections for sale in Centuria3, fall into 

 your plans, and will advertise in " Silliman's Journal " 

 (and in " London Journal of Botany ") when all is 

 arranged. Pray let him get roots and seeds for me. I 

 will do all I can for him. But if the Oregon bill 

 passes, a party under Lieutenant Fremont, or some 



