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ET. 47.) TO DANIEL CADY EATON. 439 
Suppose you come on, count as a pupil, or as a vis- 
itor, as you like, work away as you think best, making 
preparations for your course, in which I will help you 
alll can. And at the same time work up Wright’s 
Hongkong and Bonin and Japan ferns (bring any 
books you want which I have not). I want to drill 
you a little at systematic work, and think you will 
learn something that way. Come straight here. We 
shall want you to stay with us, if the house is empty. 
And if not we shall make no difficulty of sending you 
down to the Brattle House. But it would be so much 
more convenient here. 
I am very desirous that you should be duly estab- 
lished at Yale, and have no doubt you will satisfy the 
college and fill the place with comfort and credit. 
We will talk over matters at odd moments when 
you come. 
T shall be most glad to help you as a friend and 
fellow-worker ; but I cannot promise any special in- 
struction, and shall take no fee. ‘“ Dog does not eat 
dog,” is the saying, you know. 
Judge Lowell writes, in 1888, “I was in college 
when Dr. Gray was appointed to his professorship at 
Harvard, and ours was, I think, the first or one of the 
first classes to whom he lectured. I remember his lec- 
tures well, they were so full of knowledge and of en- 
thusiasm and so calculated to impress the young mind. 
“‘T suppose he had not lectured much of late years ; 
and in his many other successes, his powers as a lec- 
turer may have been overlooked by those who have 
written of him.” 
Dr. Rothrock, in his address before the memorial 
meeting of the botanical section of the Academy at 
