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fuel, and freights, in short, most of it, and some years 

 all, must come out of my own pocket, until I can 

 find somebody who will endow a curatorship. Or else 

 I must put this work in the herbarium on to my assist- 

 ant, Farlow, who, however, will have his hands full 

 enough without it. 



As to the way you are doing up Cuban botany, I 

 do not find fault with it. I think, with you, that you 

 are doing about the best possible thing under the cir- 

 cumstances. The only thing that you may justly 

 complain of me for, I think, is my sensitiveness and 

 pooh-poohing new-species-making in families where 

 old species are yet all in a jumble, and where I have 

 thought that you could not yet tell what were new 

 and what old. I dare say I have been too impatient 

 about it, and I see I have hurt your feelings some- 

 what, which I am sorry for. I only meant, take 

 time and pains to clear up the old ones in the books, 

 and get a better assurance, if you can, about the pro- 

 posed new ones. But, after all, it is wrong and fool- 

 ish in me to worry myself, or you, about them. 



You will have more experience of the sort, in the 

 working up of your San Domingo collection. But if 

 we can get time to refer doubtful cases to say Oliver 

 at Kew, and some one at Paris (where they have 

 many old San Domingo plants), I suppose you may 

 get them pretty straight. . . . 



TO R< W. CHURCH. 



September 10, 1871. 



I have addressed the envelope for this letter before 

 writing it, determined to use once more the familiar 

 superscription. The official may bide its time. 1 



1 Mr. Church had been appointed dean of St. Paul's, London. 



