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&T. 69.] TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 695 
TO G, FREDERICK WRIGHT. 
CAMBRIDGE, January 17, 1880. 
Dear Frrenp,— We go Monday night on to 
Washington, leaving here at five p.M. My lectures 
are fixed for February 5 and 6, so that I shall return 
from Washington and go on specially to New Haven. 
I expect to be at home the last week of the month, 
but perhaps not on Monday, and I should wish to see 
you and read my second lecture, which is dragging its 
slow length along! . . . 
CAMBRIDGE, March 11, 1880. 
I have this moment received and read from Newman 
Smyth a flattering note, and a copy of his article in 
the “ Advance.” A very good one it is, and his own 
thoughts are noteworthy and to the point. 
President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins sent me a 
very admiring letter, in which he urges a student’s 
edition, on thinner paper and paper covers, which he 
wants to subscribe for. I shall send it to the pub- 
lisher before long. 
April 11, 1880. 
I am amused at Professor ’s substitution of 
demiurgism for evolution, reprinted in the “ Indepen- 
dent,” and at the coolness with which the professor 
proclaims that a hypothesis which he thinks is good 
for nothing else may be good to put against evolu- 
tionism. 
Darwin has sent me advance sheets of his book on 
Advantage of Crosses (not moral but floral crosses, 
and not crosses made of flowers, but those made by in- 
sects and winds for the benefit of flowers), and I see 
much in it which you will enjoy. I am too full of 
work to use it next week, and if you tell me you will 
