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you can rarely see visitors or callers. But Packard is 

 " fish to your net," has his head crammed with facts 

 bearing on derivation, is a disciple of the Hyatt-Cope 

 school, that you may have heard of, people who 

 have got hold of what they call a law, though I do 

 not see that they contribute any vera causa at all. 



If you will turn the world of science upside down, 

 you must expect that people will wish to see you. . . . 



May 31. 



By the hand of an old correspondent of yours, and 

 cousin of ours, Mr. Brace, I send you a little book, 

 which may amuse you, in seeing your own science 

 adapted to juvenile minds. 1 In some of those hours 

 in which you can do no better than read, or hear read, 

 " trashy novels," you might try this instead. It will 

 hardly rival " The Jumping Frog," and the like speci- 

 mens of American literature which you first made 

 known to us. ... 



TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 



BOTANIC GARDEN, June 10, 1872. 



MY DEAK DE C ANDOLLE, You must set me down 

 as a faithless correspondent. Your pleasant letter of 

 April 6, from Paris, has been long upon my table, and 

 I think there is one of older date somewhere below. 

 But all this spring I have been so overworked that I 

 could respond only to the most necessary letters of 

 business, duties of my professorship, of the Garden, 

 and many other things. Well, my lectures are over, 

 and for the ensuing year I may hope for some emenda- 

 tion. I give up the superintendence of the Botanic 

 Garden, which has become a great burden, and I 

 1 How Plants Behave. 



