aT. 70.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 715 
Wallace would have known of the entire prevalence 
of that view, at least in the western wor 
Rely on me, dear De Candolle, to keep you aw cou- 
rant with all that concerns your friends here, among 
which always remember your devoted, 
Asa Gray. 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
Kew, February 19, 1881. 
My DEAR ENGELMANN, — A few days, or say a 
week ago, we were gratified by receiving your pleasant 
letter of the 31st January. I hasten to reply before 
we get afloat again, when writing becomes precarious. 
Just now Mrs. Gray and I have our evenings together 
in our quiet lodgings, that is, whenever we are not 
dining out or the like, which is pretty often. 
You know of our movements, then, up to our return 
here. The Spanish trip was very pleasant and success- 
ful, and the three weeks afterward in Paris both use- 
ful and enjoyable. As to botany, it was all given to 
Aster and Solidago, at the Jardin des Plantes, and at 
Cosson’s, who has the herbarium of Schultz,! Bip., 
which abounds with pickings from many an herba- 
rium. 
We got over here early in December, and here I 
have worked almost every week day till now, except- 
ing one short visit down to Gloucestershire, and a 
recent trip to Cambridge, where, however, a good piece 
of three mornings was devoted to Lindley’s asters. 
I know the types now of all the older species of North 
1 Dr. C. H. Schultz [Bipontinus], » 1806-1807. — — A 
distinguished botanist, d amassed 
an extremely rich herbarium in that family. 
