648 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. (1874, 
publishers some copies of the number of ‘“ Nature.” 
You seem as pleased and are as ingenuous as a 
maiden when she first finds out that she has an ad- 
mirer ! 
Now I am a little vexed, as I am apt to be when I 
let anything be printed without reading the proof my- 
self. Some one has doctored one sentence, and made it 
say the contrary to what I wrote, and to what is true; 
I make the reclamation on a separate sheet: and also 
another, which may be typographical, but which I am 
confident I could not have written; I surely wrote 
“to many,” not “ in many. 
My claim for you about teleology I have made 
several times, in “Silliman’s Journal,”! and _ else- 
where. It is a matter on which I have a good deal 
insisted. Yours affectionately, Asa Gray. 
P. S.— My point (which is blunted) was to show 
how very near Brown came to “hitting the nail on 
the head” without hitting it, striking wild instead! 
As’ G. 
TO W. M. CANBY. 
July 6, 1874. 
I am glad if you have Darlingtonia in a state to 
examine. J have some young leaves growing, which 
ony Peri yet. Mellichamp will send me a paper, 
I will read at Hartford next month. Won't 
= aa up Darlingtonia also — getting what you 
ean from Lemmon. He has not written to me about 
it. My young fish-tails show no exudation yet; and 
they are colored like the rest of the leaf. 
Ever yours, A. Gray. 
1 See vol. xxxiv. n. ser., November, 1862, pp. 428, 429.— A. G. 
