£7. 63.) TO CHARLES DARWIN. 647 
making a theist of you, “of good and respectable 
standing.’ 
Do hurry up the book about Drosera, ete. My 
plants of Sarracenia variolaris, having lost their 
spring growth in transmission, have not yet made any 
that is satisfactory. So I begged Dr. Mellichamp, 
who had sent me leaves with gorge sanded over at the 
sweet-secretion part, to send some for the trail. He 
wrote me it was too late in the season; they were all 
drying up. But this morning, with the inclosed postal 
card, came several with the sand sticking fairly well to 
the glutinous line, and I send you one of them. I wish 
I could send you Mellichamp’s long letters, about the 
two sorts of larve, that appropriate, one the upper, 
one the lower part of the pitcher 
My wife (who sends her love to you and yours) is 
much amused by your backgammon reminiscence. For 
the year past we have a way of getting on most peace- 
fully. I sit by her side and play solitaire with two 
packs of cards, she looks on and helps, and when we 
don’t succeed there is nobody to “flare up” against 
but luck. ver yours, » GRAY. 
P.S.—I think I never sent you my felicitations 
upon your election as Foreign Honorary Member of 
American Academy Arts and Sciences. 
We are proud to number you among the seventy-five 
(too many). And, I may tell you, only two negative 
votes were cast, one by an Academician who made a 
speech on the oceasion, to which nobody vouchsafed a 
word of reply. A. G. 
CAMBRIDGE, June 19, 1874. 
My pear Darwin, — Your second letter reached 
me last evening, and this morning came from the 
