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man evolved it out of consciousness. But tlie practical worka- 

 day fact remains true that oats do "excite" horses, while 

 maize does not. How horrid to be torn from moorings and 

 driven upon the deep tempestuous sea ! ! Sincerely yours, 



F. H. Storer. 



(E. W. H. TO S. W. J.) 



Berkeley, May 8, 1890. 



My dear Sir, — I have to thank you for a copy of the new 

 edition of "How Crops Grow," the receipt of which would 

 have been acknowledged much sooner had I not been per- 

 emptorily kept with ' ' the nose to the grindstone ' ' in the prep- 

 aration of MS. for the State printer, so as to make even a 

 cursory perusal of the book difficult, much less an ' ' eingehende 

 Betrachtung, " as they say in Germany. But right at first I 

 was pleasantly surprised by the view of your pleasant counte- 

 nance as a frontispiece — reminding me, by the slight change 

 in the fifteen years that have elapsed since we met, that the 

 days flow by calmly in the city of elms; while here the pro- 

 verbial restlessness and hurry of American life reaches its 

 maximum and makes its mark on us. In fact, I often repeat 

 mentally the pregnant remark of the Badenser forty-niner : 

 ' ' "Wann 's noch lang so f ortgeht, geht 's nimmer lang so fort ! ' ' 

 And yet it seems impossible to stop without having the Jug- 

 gernaut of public expectations and demands run clean over 

 one. 



Now as for the book, I greet it with empressement ; for in 

 using it ever since I emigrated from ]\Iichigan, I have every 

 year had to add more to the text, until the students felt 

 aggrieved at my not sticking closer to the book. That is all 

 right now, and more so, for you have given in compendious 

 forms some matters that I had not been able to get into 

 shape to my satisfaction, even in my own head. In looking 

 over your text on the albuminoids, I begin to regret the good 

 olden time when we knew so much more definitely about these 



