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letter, Dr. Gray felt as a great personal loss, as well 
as a loss to science. He was a young man of much 
promise, and he felt on leaving home that, in putting 
him in charge of the herbarium and of the college 
classes, he could not have made any arrangement more 
promising and satisfactory. He had counted much on 
his future help as assistant, and anticipated that he 
would become a very valuable aid in carrying on his 
work, for he had patience, conscientiousness, and 
steady diligence. Mr. Mann’s lungs were weak, and 
his health required care, but nothing of immediate 
danger was feared. But consumption developed rap- 
idly, and he died after a few weeks’ illness. 
Charles Wright was also working at Cambridge, 
and took charge of the herbarium and garden during 
Dr. Gray’s absence. 
TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 
Hyéres, East or Touton, November 29, 1868. 
T had yesterday at Marseilles a letter from Mrs. 
Mann, conveying the sad intelligence of her son’s 
death. Very sad itis... . 
My heart bleeds for poor Mrs. Mann, who was 
wrapped up in Horace, and who feels it as the greatest 
of disappointments. To me, also, it is a very great 
disappointment of long-cherished hopes. 
I expect to find letters at Alexandria when we reach 
there. We sail from Marseilles a week hence, going 
meanwhile to see some of this famous shore further 
east. 
Carro, December 16, 1868. 
Thank you heartily for your letter of November 18. 
I am here learning some subtropical botany, seeing 
