ET. 68.] TO W. M. CANBY. 683 
his request to return the specimen. Told him that in 
May either you or I or both would be down, call for 
his boy, and be taken to the spot! 
I have no objection to give him money for this 
specimen, if he wants it. But I would not advise that 
he advertise it. But if he can find plenty of roots, he 
might legitimately put them on sale, and get a good 
price. Why should he not? 
I did not say, before, that this discovery has given 
me a hundred times the satisfaction that the election 
into the Institute did. That caused no particular 
elation. This has been a great satisfaction. 
November 5, 1878. 
. . . I send a brief notice to “ Silliman’s Journal.” 
And I am finishing an account of the matter, which 
I will send to Paris, to Decaisne, for the ** Académie 
des Sciences,” as a “ Correspondent ” ought. 
I have declined to risk the specimen by mail, till 
we get more, which is not so certain. 
November 9, 1878. 
. . . He (Hyams) sent me some loose flowers, to 
help out. 
I have sent manuscript to Paris, and shall send 
back Decaisne’s old drawing, and drawing of flower 
and details, now making by Sprague to be reproduced 
in the “ Annales des Sciences Naturelles,” since this 
ought to please the French. 
You can go to see and get specimens, even if I do 
not. Yet I will go if —at the time — I can. 
April 5, 1879. 
On April 1 (ominous day) began Composite. . . . 
