aT. 76.] TO J. D. HOOKER. 811 
CAMBRIDGE, October 24, 1887. 
Dear Reprietp, — Thanks, many, for letter of 
the 22d. . . 
We have hed “a good time,” and after long play 
I am getting down to work. 
Thanks to you all for your Senarbimibaibiiene in which 
my good wife sincerely joins. 
ours affectionately, Asa Gray. 
HERBARIUM OF HARVARD UNIVERS 
Boranic GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October, "1887. 
Dear Hooker, — Your welcome letter in this 
morning. I was just writing a notice of Ampelidex, 
and your remarks are in time for me to sharpen it up 
a bit. I think I can smash his notice about Ampe- 
lopsis. 
Who is Miss Grant, who says she knows you both? 
She sculps, I believe. Ever yours, 
A. GRay. 
There was much to do on getting home and settling 
down again, and many things were planned for the 
winter’s work. Dr. Gray particularly wished to write 
some accounts of the old botanists he had seen in his 
earlier visits, being stirred thereto by Reichenbach ! of 
Hamburg, and by the stories he told one evening at Dr. 
Oliver’s, at Kew, when all agreed it was a pity some 
of these characteristic things should not go on record. 
He took up work on the “ Flora,” wrote a review of 
“ Darwin’s Life and Letters,” and had a busy time 
before him. 
Professor Baird, director of the Smithsonian, and an 
1 Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, 1823-1889 ; professor of botany at 
burg, and an authority on ore. 
