,ET. 44.] TO W. J. HOOKER. 411 



send you a copy myself, but at the request of M. Ra- 

 mond I surrendered the small extra edition to his 

 charge for distribution. In due time you will have a 

 copy in the volume of the " Memoirs of the Amer- 

 ican Academy " also. My daguerreotype of M. Jus- 

 sieu was most opportunely taken. His family, having 

 no recent portrait, have solicited the loan of it, to aid 

 in the preparation of an engraved likeness; and I 

 have placed it in their hands. 



I delayed the last sheet of the " Correspondence " 

 long, awaiting an answer to my request for some ma- 

 terials (notices, eloges, etc.), from which I could pre- 

 pare something of a biographical nature to append, 

 but I received nothing, at least until too late. In the 

 May number of the " Kew Journal of Botany," Hooker 

 has reprinted my brief note ; but by some accident, 

 the marks of quotation are omitted from the two last 

 paragraphs, which appear as if written by the editor 

 of the "Journal." . . . 



Believe me to remain, my dear friend and honored 

 colleague, as ever, your sincerely attached, 



ASA GRAY. 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



CAMBRIDGE, February 5, 1855. 



MY DEAR SIR WILLIAM, The inclosed, from our 

 good friend Dr. Short, 1 and the box it advises, came 

 while I was at Washington, from which I have just 

 returned. Mrs. Gray and I have enjoyed our month's 

 holiday very much ; though I was kept busy enough, 



1 Charles W. Short, M. D., 1794-1862 ; professor of materia med- 

 ica in the University of Transylvania, Lexington, Ky. Removed later 

 to Louisville. Dr. Gray named for him Shortia galacifolia, discovered 

 in Michaux's herbarium in Paris, in 1839. 



