zT. 54.) TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 541 
or stereotyped at Gottingen, for the Smithsonian con- 
tributions, and have written Grisebach to cultivate his 
Spanish influence in the view of having that govern- 
ment at length patronize effectively the bringing out 
of a Flora Cubensis, by Wright and Grisebach. 
You owe this letter partly to the general disturb- 
ance of an uneasy conscience, and partly to a sudden 
cold caught by carelessness in hot weather, which un- 
fits me for more driving work. It is getting better. 
I hope to write you again before I catch a new one. 
July 4, Eighty-ninth Anniversary 
of the United States. 
Yours of June 9-21 reached me the very day that 
I mailed my last missive to you, a good long letter. 
Here is a fine letter from you, showing how busy and 
active aman you are. Pretty well for a man of your 
age to be shinning up palm-trees, and barking your 
shins. Be careful! Grisebach will take your criti- 
cisms all right, no doubt. Yesterday I got the in- 
closed from him. Very well. Is the Cuban M. Sau- 
valle? ... 
Dr. Hooker has sent me a specimen of Welwitschia, 
that queer African tree a foot high, many ange old, 
and with only two leaves, and those all in shre 
September 5. 
. Dear, good Sir William Hooker is dead, — of 
diphthovis —on the 15th August, six weeks over 
eighty years. I have no news yet from the family ; 
but learn indirectly that Dr. Hooker is sick, “a 
gastric affection.” I do hope it is nothing danger- 
TBS o's 
Dr. Gray wrote for the “ American Journal of 
