zT, 44,] TO W. J. HOOKER. 411 
send you a copy myself, but at the request of M. Ra- 
mond I surrendered the small extra edition to his 
charge for distribution. In due time you will have a 
copy in the volume of the “ Memoirs of the Amer- 
ican Academy” also. My daguerreotype of M. Jus- 
sieu was most opportunely taken. His family, having 
no recent portrait, have solicited the loan of it, to aid 
in the preparation of an engraved likeness; and I 
have placed it in their hands. 
I delayed the last sheet of the “ Correspondence ” 
long, awaiting an answer to my request for some ma- 
terials (notices, éloges, etc.), from which I could pre- 
pare something of a biographical nature to append, 
but I received nothing, at least until too late. In the 
May number of the “ Kew Journal of Botany,” Hooker 
has reprinted my brief note; but by some accident, 
the marks of quotation are omitted from the two last 
aes which saa as if written by the editor 
the “Journal.” . 
Believe me to remain, my dear friend and honored 
colleague, as ever, your sincerely attached, 
Asa Gray. 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
CAMBRIDGE, February 5, 1855. 
My pear Sm Wiuram, — The inclosed, from our 
good friend Dr. Short,! and the box it advises, came 
while I was at Washington, from which I have just 
returned. Mrs. Gray and I have enjoyed our month’s 
holiday very much; though I was kept busy enough, 
1 Charles W. Short, M. D., 1794-1862; professor of materia med- 
ica in the University of Transylvania, Lexington, Ky. Removed later 
ille. Dr. Gray named for him Shortia galacifolia, discovered 
in Michaux’s herbarium in Paris, in 1839. 
