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AT. 62.] TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 639 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
CAMBRIDGE, June 12, 1873. 
My DEAR DE CaNnDOLLE, — I must be in your eyesa 
disgracefully negligent correspondent and an ungrate- 
ful friend. I think, however, that I must have ac- 
knowledged the arrival of your volume which I received, 
I think, in March,—more likely late in February. 
The attempt at a perusal of it was when, on the 12th 
March, I went on to New York to pay the last duties to 
my venerable and good friend and associate, Dr. Tor- 
rey. I read a good part of the volume on the railway 
journeys, and planned a review of several of the 
articles. Then, a month later, I broke away from my 
laborious life here, and made a visit to my old friend 
Professor Henry, at Washington. I even went as 
much farther south, to Wilmington, North Carolina, 
where I met the spring in all its beauty, a month in 
advance of our tardy north. I collected a lot of live 
Dionzas, ete. I returned to a great accession of 
university work, my assistant being obliged to leave 
me on the Ist of May. 
To return to your volume: I called Professor Hen- 
ry’s attention to it, as one which would all through 
interest him much, if ever he finds time to read it. 
He will translate the article on the Language of the 
Twentieth Century for his Report, and perhaps others. 
At a time when I was already overloaded, the death 
of dear Torrey has thrown some cares and extra work 
upon me. I have to carry through the press a report of 
his upon the plants collected in west North America, in 
Wilkes’s Expedition, which was drawn up, but never 
really finished, twelve years ago, and was called for 
just during Torrey’s last sickness, and to his annoy- 
ance, which I felt bound to relieve as well as I could. 
