x7, 44.) TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 413 
A great loss in Forbes’s death. I have been trembling 
lest I should hear that Dr. Hooker is chosen to the 
chair at Edinburgh, which would give him very good 
pay, I suppose, and he would fill the place well, but 
it would take him away from special botany, which 
would be a great pity. . 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
May 29, 1855. 
The class which leaves college this summer have be- 
spoken photographic likenesses, on paper, of their pro- 
fessors, — my colleagues and myself, — and this gives 
me an opportunity of obtaining from the artist some 
duplicate copies of that for which I sat, and which Mrs. 
Gray pronounces a very good likeness. 
It is not so much vanity that induces me to ask you 
to accept of the copy I inclose, as the hope of get- 
ting yours in return, if that same style be adopted in 
Geneva, and be as little expensive as here, — to add to 
the already considerable number of portraits of bota- 
nists which make the chief adornment of my rooms, — 
among which the fine engraving of your distinguished 
father is conspicuous. I need not say that I should 
be glad to place the likeness of the son near to that of 
the father. Ever, my dear De Candolle, 
Your sincere and faithful, Asa Gray. 
TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 
August 28, 1855. 
For a long while now I have been waiting for a 
good evening when I was not too tired to write you 
a long letter to meet you in California, in return, 
though a poor return, for your several nice letters 
from China. 
