600 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1870, 
especially for Mrs. Gray, and it now seems a long 
time ago. I dropped at once into a world of work ; 
but am not killing myself. The main struggle for 
existence will come in the spring, when my duties 
crowd on me dreadfully. 
It gave us both very great pleasure to see again 
Mrs. Darwin’s well-known handwriting, and your sig- 
nature. 
I knew you would be pleased with young Agassiz 
and his Yankee wife. I wish his health were better ; 
and I do hope your own will be such that you can 
next summer see and know my trump of a colleague 
J. Wyman 
TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 
CAMBRIDGE, March 28, 1870. 
. . . You hope that I will not resign my chair here 
unless to devote myself wholly to botanical work. 
What other object could I have in view? I am not 
likely to be idle, and I care for nothing else. The 
difficulty is, that the university cannot well spare me 
now, nor find a fit person to take either the whole or 
a part of my work, but there is a good disposition to 
favor my views. 
Charles Wright is helping me as curator of the her- 
barium, and is getting the large accessions into it — 
rather slowly. ; 
The winter is nearly passed; I have employed dil- 
igently all the time I could command, but the net 
result looks small. All I have for the printer is a 
revision of Eriogonez, which I have turned over to 
him, and which you shall soon see. I think I have 
done it very well. I have in Eriogonum made use 
of a character which you have not employed, i. e., the 
