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his request to return the specimen. Told him that in 

 May either you or I or both would be down, call for 

 his boy, and be taken to the spot ! 



I have no objection to give him money for this 

 specimen, if he wants it. But I would not advise that 

 he advertise it. But if he can find plenty of roots, he 

 might legitimately put them on sale, and get a good 

 price. Why should he not ? 



I did not say, before, that this discovery has given 

 me a hundred times the satisfaction that the election 

 into the Institute did. That caused no particular 

 elation. This has been a great satisfaction. 



November 5, 1878. 



... I send a brief notice to " Silliman's Journal." 

 And I am finishing an account of the matter, which 

 I will send to Paris, to Decaisne, for the " Academie 

 des Sciences," as a " Correspondent " ought. 



I have declined to risk the specimen by mail, till 

 we get more, which is not so certain. 



November 9, 1878. 



. . . He (Hyams) sent me some loose flowers, to 

 help out. 



I have sent manuscript to Paris, and shall send 

 back Decaisne's old drawing, and drawing of flower 

 and details, now making by Sprague to be reproduced 

 in the " Annales des Sciences Naturelles," since this 

 ought to please the French. 



You can go to see and get specimens, even if I do 

 not. Yet I will go if at the time I can. 



April 5, 1879. 



On April 1 (ominous day) began Composite. . . . 



