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demands upon your time or attention. But I should 
like him to see you, and perhaps he might through 
you pay his respects to the savans in his line, notably 
to De la Rive. Having wife, ete., with him, and little 
time, his visit will be transient. Eliot is a chemist 
and physicist, a man of much promise, we think, and 
a most gentlemanly man. He is a very trusty friend 
of mine. He has passed the autumn and winter in 
Paris, studying hard, and will soon return here, 
bringing the latest news of you. He and his lady 
companions are just such people as we should like you 
to know America by. 
I should say to you, moreover, that I gave to an- 
other colleague of mine, Professor Cooke, a note to 
you. He is a chemist and mineralogist, is full of re- 
search and zeal, a most estimable man. 
You know, perhaps, that I have made over (or am 
to make over) all my herbarium and library to our 
university, in consideration of a fireproof building 
made to receive them, and a fund, of moderate extent, 
raised for the permanent support. . . . During the 
summer or early autumn, my collections will be trans- 
ferred to this their permanent home, to my great relief. 
It is probable that I shall continue to spend upon 
these collections all my available means, and I hope 
they will be of use in the future, as well as safe, which 
they are not in my wooden house. My own donation 
is reckoned in money value at about $20,000. 
Charles Wright is expected home from Cuba soon, 
when there will be a new and interesting distribu- 
tion of his phenogamous plants. 
We trust that our civil war is in its last year, that 
is, if we are victorious, as we hope to be. In that 
case your American stocks will be all right again. 
