404 CORRESPONDENCE. [1853, 
I do not wonder that you feel a little nervous about 
the result of the experiment at Oxford. I can well 
understand it, and if I were an Oxford man, which I 
should count it a high honor to have been, I should 
share the feeling. I count it an excellent thing that 
the new enactments were framed by friendly hands, and 
are not very sweeping. As far as I can judge from 
the election of the present council, those of the Move- 
ment party by no means have it all their own way. 
It seems to me that the admission of Dissenters to 
the A. B. degree is a wise measure, and one that will 
do no harm to the university nor the church. But 
I see not how they can go further. It would not be 
right that they should pass to the A. M. and share in 
the government of the university. 
Avs position at Oxford or Cambridge which allows 
of matrimony must be a desirable one for a person 
of scholarly pursuits. I can hardly think you will 
pass your life at Whatley, but trust you will have 
some better preferment and a wider field of duty be- 
fore long, before Mrs. Gray and myself will be likely 
to pay you the visit you kindly solicit, for I see no 
near prospect of our revisiting England, though no- 
thing would please us more. . . . 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
7th December, 1853. 
I got dreadfully behindhand with everything. 
“ Exploring Expedition Botany ” stopped printing for 
a long time, but is now renewed; three hundred or 
more pages are printed, and copy sent to printer up 
to Leguminose (excl.). Meanwhile, to look over 
Brackenridge’s manuscript of the Filices, to turn 
a loose anprsininatical lingo into English, and his 
Peseta 
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