396 CORRESPONDENCE. [1853, 
Tf he holds Unitarian views, as I have been told, 
he will perhaps be more favorably situated, just in 
Boston or Cambridge, than in England, and probably 
meet more cultivated and more religious people of 
that persuasion than at home. But if he sympathizes 
rather with Francis Newman and that school, as 
some one tells me, I should think he would not find 
that class of people here very attractive to him. But 
I hope that is not his bent. I have no partiality for 
Unitarianism, though it is the faith of near and valued 
friends. I am an orthodox Presbyterian, as my fathers 
were. But in England I should be a Churchman, 
although a pretty low one, at least in some respects ; 
and I am a most hearty well-wisher to the Church of 
England. So pray, when settled in your Saeed a 
ee me a line to say where you are, and 
your parish church is ; for hankering after i saition 
is, as an Oxford man told me, a great failing of 
Americans. 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
CAMBRIDGE, March 28, 1853. 
My DEAR Frienp, —I am all the more glad that I 
ean direct your attention to the fourth volume (new 
series) of the “ Memoirs of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences,” p. 382, where you will find your 
name enrolled as the sole Honorary Member for Swit- 
zerland. 
Ordinarily neither you nor I would be at all solici- 
tous for such recognition. I care not to have them 
except where (as in the Linnwan Society of London, 
the French Academy, and your own society of Ge- 
neva) I well know the nominations are strictly and 
conscientiously weighed, and where the list to be 
