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annotations on De Candolle's " L'Origine des Plantes 

 Cultivees." If not, let me know, for you have leisure 

 to read now. 



I am busy with an article on De Candolle's " Nou- 

 velles Remarques sur la Nomenclature." As it may 

 be my last say on the subject, I am going to make a 

 rather elaborate article on nomenclatural and phyto- 

 graphical points, mostly small points, some of which I 

 should have liked to confer with you about. I would 

 have done so, but I feared, in the reported state of 

 your health, to trouble you. 



There are two or three small points, about name- 

 citation and name-making, upon which I shall venture 

 to criticise the " Genera Plantarum." But in almost 

 everything we are in full accord, as you know, and I 

 wish to impress the accordance upon the younger 

 botanists of the United States. Nowadays, more than 

 formerly, they get hold of many books, German and 

 other books, many of them, better for substance 

 than for form ; and so our botanists need guidance 

 and some show of authority. 



Engelmann has come home, looking far better than 

 we expected, or than he thought to be ; is visiting Sar- 

 gent, and will soon come to us. ... 



TO SIB EDWARD FRY. 



November 10, 1883. 



In a line which I remember adding to Mrs. Gray's 

 last letter to Lady Fry I expressed a hope and con- 

 fident expectation that we should have done with 

 General Butler as governor of Massachusetts. The 

 election occurred last Tuesday ; an extraordinarily 

 large vote was cast : Butler was defeated by 10,000, 

 and an excellent man, a member of Congress from the 



