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fuel, and freights,— in short, most of it, and some years 
all, — must come out of my own pocket, until I can 
find somebody who will endow a curatorship. Or else 
I must put this work in the herbarium on to my assist- 
ant, Farlow, who, however, will have his hands full 
enough without it. 
As to the way you are doing up Cuban botany, I 
do not find fault with it. I think, with you, that you 
are doing about the best possible thing under the cir- 
cumstances. The only thing that you may justly 
complain of me for, I think, is my sensitiveness and 
pooh-poohing new-species-making in families where 
old species are yet all in a jumble, and where I have 
thought that you could not yet tell what were new 
and what old. I dare say I have been too impatient 
about it, and I see I have hurt your feelings some- 
what, which I am sorry for. I only meant, take 
time and pains to clear up the old ones in the books, 
and get a better assurance, if you can, about the pro- 
posed new ones. But, after all, it is wrong and fool- 
ish in me to worry myself, or you, about them. 
You will have more experience of the sort, in the 
working up of your San Domingo collection. But if 
we can get time to refer doubtful cases to say Oliver 
at Kew, and some one at Paris (where they have 
many old San Domingo plants), I suppose you may 
get them pretty straight. . . . 
TO R. W. CHURCH. 
September 10, 1871. 
I have addressed the envelope for this letter before 
writing it, determined to use once more the familiar 
superscription. The official may bide its time.’ 
1 Mr. Church had been appointed dean of St. Paul’s, London. 
