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xT. 51.] TO CHARLES DARWIN. 479 
fresh ones drawn by Mr. Sprague, but cannot just now 
lay hands on them. 
Freely point out anything else you want looked at. 
I have now a very zealous pupil, who will be glad to 
be intrusted with looking up plants and observing. 
Ever yours, cordially, Asa GRray. 
There is some jolly science in the “Saturday Re- 
view,” now and then; as in December 28, p. 665, 
where we are informed that icebergs “are formed 
by the splashing of the waves on the coast of Labra- 
dor.” 
Mill being “the greatest logician in England,” I 
send you an American reprint of a specimen of his 
logic, which I know you will like. 
We are very sad here at the death of the president 
of our university,! who had also many warm friends 
in England. 
March 31. 
Yours of the 15th came this evening. To-morrow 
I am busy all day in college (where I began my 
course this year with lectures on Fertilization, devel- 
oping your views on orchid-insect fertilization, dimor- 
phism, ete., ete., to an interested class !), so I must 
drop a line for you into a letter for Boott, for 
Wednesday’s post. 
A friend has just handed me Morell’s new book, 
which, looking at psychology from the physiological 
side, I see brings up several notions which have been 
turning over in my mind for some years. He is 
coming out a good Darwinian, I see, and is quite of 
my way of thinking about design. You see I am 
1 President C. C. Felton. 
