£7. 55.) TO R. W. CHURCH. 543 
ous to say that Sir William Hooker was one of the 
most admirable of men, a model Christian gentle- 
man.” 
Dr. Gray was appointed by Mr. Peabody himself a 
member of the “ Board of Trustees of the Peabody 
Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology in 
connection with Harvard University’ when it was 
founded in 1866. The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, 
offering the resolutions in memory of Dr. Gray, at the 
meeting in 1888, says, “ From first to last, as I can 
bear witness, he was a most faithful and valuable mem- 
ber of our Board; he was always at our meetings and 
took an active interest in all our work. In 1874, on 
the death of Jeffries Wyman, he voluntarily assumed 
the curatorship of our Museum, and did excellent 
service until the appointment of Professor Putnam.” 
TO R. W. CHURCH. 
Sunday evening, February 25, 1866. 
The number of the “Guardian” followed closely 
upon your note of the 9th instant, and I have just 
risen from the reading of your review of “ Ecce 
Homo.” I knew nothing of this remarkable book, 
beyond having seen the title. The notice in the 
7 Spectator ” had escaped me, or rather, through a 
change in the order of circulationein our 
club, that number of “ Spectator” has not yet come 
round tome. But I have to thank you heartily for 
ealling my attention to it, and especially for sending 
me your own published and well-considered thoughts 
of it. I greatly admire your analysis of the book, 
and what I thus learn of it greatly impresses me. I 
shall procure it without delay. I long, not only to 
read it myself, but to put it into the hands of some 
