ET. 63.] TO CHARLES DARWIN. 645 
November 26. 
. Lam going this morning to witness the nuptials 
of my colleague and friend Professor Sargent and a 
charming young lady of Boston; and, on the chance 
of their having a day in Geneva, I wish to introduce 
the happy couple to you and Madame De Candolle. 
They will tell you much of me, and of the satisfying 
and I trust useful sort of life I am now leading. 
Some evidence of renewed botanical activity in the 
form of a couple of botanical papers just issued here, 
too bulky to send well by post, I will cause to reach 
you by way of Paris. 
Professor Sargent is given to horticulture and 
arboriculture. He not only takes charge of the uni- 
versity Botanic Garden, but also of a recent and 
noble foundation for an arboretum, from which much 
may in due time be expected 
It is most pleasant and hopeful when, as in the 
present instance, a young man of means and best 
social position chooses to devote his time and energies 
to practical scientific ends, rather than to business or 
pleasure. You are more accustomed to that at Geneva 
than we are here in America. 
I know that, before this can reach you, I shall have 
occasion to write to you, and to announce the recep- 
tion of the last volume of the ‘“ Prodromus,” now on 
the way to me. So I have only to add that I am 
always Very sincerely yours, 
sa GRAY. 
TO CHARLES DARWIN. 
May 12, 1874. 
. I sent to Hooker to forward to you two articles 
in is “ Nation,” on Insectivorous Plants, written to 
