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624 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1872, 
you can rarely see visitors or callers. But Packard is 
“fish to your net,” has his head crammed with facts 
bearing on derivation, is a disciple of the Hyatt-Cope 
school, that you may have heard of,— people who 
have got hold of what they call a law, though I do 
not see that they contribute any vera causa at all. 
If you will turn the world of science upside “down, 
you must expect that people will wish to see you. .. . 
May 31. 
By the hand of an old correspondent of yours, and 
cousin of ours, Mr. Brace, I send you a little book, 
which may amuse you, in seeing your own science 
adapted to juvenile minds.!_ In some of those hours 
in which you can do no better than read, or hear read, 
“trashy novels,” you might try this instead. It will 
hardly rival “‘ The Jumping Frog,” and the like speci- 
mens of American literature which you first made 
known to us... . 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
Boranic GARDEN, June 10, 1872. 
My pear Dr CAnDOoLLE,— You must set me down 
as a faithless correspondent. Your pleasant letter of 
April 6, from Paris, has been long upon my table, and 
I think there is one of older data somewhere below. 
But all this spring I have been so overworked that I 
could respond only to the most necessary letters of 
business, duties of my professorship, of the Garden, 
and many other things. Well, my lectures are over, 
and for the ensuing year I may hope for some emenda- 
tion. I give up the superintendence of the Botanic 
Garden, which has become a great burden, and 
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