774 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1885, 



two boys, and of your enjoyment of them. You say 

 you are quite well, and Lady Hooker much the same, 

 which is comforting. But you are naturally grow- 

 ing older, like myself. I tire sooner than I used to 

 do, and have not so sure a touch nor so good a 

 memory. The daily grind we both find more wear- 

 ing. . . . 



We should like to come over to you once more, 

 but it seems less and less practicable ; unless I be- 

 come actually unfit for work, and then I shall not be 

 worth seeing. . . . 



Your affectionate old friend, A. GRAY. 

 Old, indeed; the president of the Naturae Curio- 

 sorum wrote me on August 3 that I have been one of 

 the curious for fifty years. 



Dr. Gray wrote a notice of Charles Wright for the 

 "American Journal of Science," in which he says 

 that " Charles Wright was born at Wethersfield, Con- 

 necticut ; graduated at Yale in 1835. Had an early love 

 for botany, which may have taken him to the South as 

 a teacher in Mississippi, whence he went to Texas, 

 joining the early immigration, and occupied himself 

 botanizing and surveying, and then again in teaching. 

 He accompanied various expeditions, and no name is 

 more largely commemorated in the botany of Texas, 

 New Mexico, and Arizona than Charles Wright. It 

 is an acanthaceous genus of this district, of his own 

 discovery, that bears the name of Carlowrightia. 

 Surely no botanist ever better earned such scientific 

 remembrance by entire devotion, acute observation, 

 severe exertion, and perseverance under hardship and 

 privation." He was engaged later for several years 

 " in his prolific exploration of Cuba." 



