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suffers in the place of his nativity and will experience no sur- 

 prise. There is, however, just a shade of queerness in the 

 fact that when Brush [as] of old directs to me in N. Y. the 

 letter reaches my father's door quicker than the one which 

 you sent straight to Boston. 



Egad old fellow, I should think your stomach would ache 

 with a dozen of letters, or less, from one chap sticking therein. 

 However ! I 'm not specially exigent and am ready enough 

 to forgive sins of omission at any time. Your name was 

 honorably mentioned as an undoubted authority in the matter 

 of scientific education, by Prof. Woodman at the Institute 

 of Technology the other night. Woodman made several sen- 

 sible remarks on that occasion. 



There is little or nothing los hereabouts. Warren (and 

 Storer) are working like beavers — being in a position, if ever 

 men were, to realize the length of art and brevity of life. 

 With myself this is simple task work — my mind being well 

 nigh blank. 



J. Wyman's experiments on spont. gen. have stirred up 

 the very liveliest kind of a fight in France — perhaps you have 

 followed it, as I have with a good deal of interest, in Le 

 Courrier des Sciences. I am very anxious that Wyman shall 

 publish his thoughts and views on this subject, — 'twill then 

 ascend from its present level quickly enough, I can assure 

 you. And this no matter whether the dogma itself (immacu- 

 late conception ! ) be right or wrong. 



By the way, was your lecture on "fermentation" written 

 out? If so, pray lend me the loan of it. I have just been 

 reading a lecture upon this subject by my friend Lieben 

 (late of Vienna, now of Palermo, Naples or Pisa) and am 

 very curious to see how your several minds have worked. 

 For a German lecture, Lieben 's is excellent. 



Eliot is in a pension way up outside of the Arch of 

 Triumph — over to the left as you go out towards the Bois. 

 In the same house boards a Prof, at one of the Lycees, who has 

 put E. through all the lower educational sprouts in famous 



