746 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. (1883, 
annotations on De Candolle’s “ L’Origine des Plantes 
Cultivées.” If not, let me know, for you have leisure 
to read now. 
I am busy with an article on De Candolle’s ‘ Nou- 
velles Remarques sur la Nomenclature.” As it may 
be my last say on the subject, I am going to make a 
rather elaborate article on nomenclatural and phyto- 
graphical points, mostly small points, some of which I 
should have liked to confer with you about. I would 
have done so, but I feared, in the reported state of 
your health, to trouble you. 
There are two or three small points, about name- 
citation and name-making, upon which I shall venture 
to criticise the “Genera Plantarum.” But in almost 
everything we are in full accord, as you know, and I 
wish to impress the accordance upon the younger 
botanists of the United States. Nowadays, more than 
formerly, they get hold of many books, German and 
other — books, many of them, better for substance 
than for form; and so our botanists need guidance 
and some show of authority. 
Engelmann has come home, looking far better than 
we expected, or than he thought to be; is visiting Sar- 
gent, and will soon come to us. . . . 
TO SIR EDWARD FRY. 
November 10, 1883. 
In a line which I remember adding to Mrs. Gray’s 
last letter to Lady Fry I expressed a hope and con- 
fident expectation that we should have done with 
General Butler as governor of Massachusetts. The 
election occurred last Tuesday; an extraordinarily 
large vote was cast: Butler was defeated by 10,000, 
and an excellent man, a member of Congress from the 
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