^T. 35.] TO JOHN TORREY. 343 



October 8th. 



By the way, meeting Agassiz last evening, I was 

 pleased to learn that he claimed you as a schoolmate, 

 and spoke of you with lively pleasure. He is a fine, 

 pleasant fellow. We shall take good care of him here. 



January 5, 1847. 



I am glad so fine a collection is on the way from 

 Lindheimer, and greatly approve his going to the 

 mountains on the Guadaloupe. How high are the 

 mountains ? If good, real mountains, and he can get 

 on to them, and into secluded valleys, he will do great 

 things. . . . 



We will keep ahead of the Bonn people. By the 

 close of next summer (Deo favente) we may hope to 

 have the botany of Texas pretty well in our hands. 



Do you hear from Fendler? Hooker says that re- 

 gion, the mountains especially, is the best ground to 

 explore in North America ! There is a high moun- 

 tain right back of Santa Fe. Fendler must ravish it. 



TO JOHN TORREY. 



Wednesday, [October, 1846]. 



A Mr. Baird, 1 of Carlisle, Pa., called on me yester- 

 day, evidently a most keen naturalist (ornithology 

 principally), but a man of more than common grasp. 

 He talked about an evergreen-leaved Vaccinium, which 

 I have no doubt is V. brachycerum, MX., that I have 

 so long sought in vain ! . . . 



13th October, 1846. 



I leave Agassiz in New York. He will leave New 

 York Wednesday morning ; join me at Princeton, 



1 Spencer F. Baird, afterward widely known as secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



