JOT. 70.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 715 



Wallace would have known of the entire prevalence 

 of that view, at least in the western world. 



Rely on me, dear De Candolle, to keep you au cou- 

 rant with all that concerns your friends here, among 

 which always remember your devoted, 



ASA GRAY. 



TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



KEW, February 19, 1881. 



MY DEAR ENGELMANN, A few days, or say a 

 week ago, we were gratified by receiving your pleasant 

 letter of the 31st January. I hasten to reply before 

 we get afloat again, when writing becomes precarious. 

 Just now Mrs. Gray and I have our evenings together 

 in our quiet lodgings, that is, whenever we are not 

 dining out or the like, which is pretty often. 



You know of our movements, then, up to our return 

 here. The Spanish trip was very pleasant and success- 

 ful, and the three weeks afterward in Paris both use- 

 ful and enjoyable. As to botany, it was all given to 

 Aster and Solidago, at the Jardin des Plantes, and at 

 Cosson's, who has the herbarium of Schultz, 1 Bip., 

 which abounds with pickings from many an herba- 

 rium. 



We got over here early in December, and here I 

 have worked almost every week day till now, except- 

 ing one short visit down to Gloucestershire, and a 

 recent trip to Cambridge, where, however, a good piece 

 of three mornings was devoted to Lindley's asters. 

 I know the types now of all the older species of North 



1 Dr. C. H. Schultz [Bipontinus], 1805-1867. Rhenish Bavaria. A 

 distinguished botanist, who devoted himself to Composite, and amassed 

 an extremely rich herbarium in that family. 



