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publishers some copies of the number of "Nature." 

 You seem as pleased and are as ingenuous as a 

 maiden when she first finds out that she has an ad- 

 mirer ! 



Now I am a little vexed, as I am apt to be when I 

 let anything be printed without reading the proof my- 

 self. Some one has doctored one sentence, and made it 

 say the contrary to what I wrote, and to what is true ; 

 I make the reclamation on a separate sheet : and also 

 another, which may be typographical, but which I am 

 confident I could not have written ; I surely wrote 

 " to many," not " in many." 



My claim for you about teleology I have made 

 several times, in " Silliman's Journal," l and else- 

 where. It is a matter on which I have a good deal 

 insisted. Yours affectionately, ASA GRAY. 



P. S. My point (which is blunted) was to show 

 how very near Brown came to " hitting the nail on 

 the head " without hitting it, striking wild instead ! 



A. G. 



TO W. M. CANBY. 



July 6, 1874. 



I am glad if you have Darlingtonia in a state to 

 examine. I have some young leaves growing, which 

 show nothing yet. Mellichamp will send me a paper, 

 which I will read at Hartford next month. Won't 

 you post up Darlingtonia also getting what you 

 can from Lemmon. He has not written to me about 

 it. My young fish-tails show no exudation yet ; and 

 they are colored like the rest of the leaf. 



Ever yours, A. GRAY. 



1 See vol. xxxiv. n. ser., November, 1862, pp. 428, 429. A. G. 



