550 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1866, 
August 7. 
. . + You should study Wyman’s observations in 
his own papers. He is always careful to keep his in- 
ferences close to his facts, and is as good an experi- 
menter, I judge, as he is an observer. He has a new 
series of observations to publish. I think that he has 
not at all pronounced in favor of spontaneous genera- 
tion, but I will bet on his experiments against Pas- 
teur, any day. 
TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 
November 23. 
You may well complain that I neglect you. But — 
1. I had, till now, nothing special to write. 
2. I have been daily expecting to hear from Grise- 
bach, and have sheets to send you, or the copies via 
Westermann. But not a bit of it yet. The con- 
quest of Hanover by the Prussians seems to have 
annihilated Grisebach. 
3. I have been, am so— busy is not the word for it. 
I can’t think of any to express it. I suppose that I 
have now lying by me more than fifty unanswered 
letters, though I keep answering the most pressing as 
fast nearly as they come in. But the rest get neg- 
lected, inevitably. I read your letters and follow 
your work in Cuba with interest. I want you to get 
all the plants you can (but I see not that you can 
exhaust Cuba), and then come and settle down here, 
and work up, as you only can, a nice Flora Cubana. 
That you are bound to do, just as I am to do the 
Flora of North America. I see some faint prospect 
that I may yet, and before very long, be able to sit 
down to it. But you and I are bound to do these two 
things yet! ... 
