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know as little of Regensburg and the Regensburg peo- 
ple who have done us such honor as a certain old lady 
did of the famous King of Prussia; but I ratherly 
think it means Ratisbon. . . . 
Box of plants and box of bones are here ; the plants 
certainly look the more antediluvian of the two. The 
specimens are wretched and mostly devoid of interest. 
The bones will be served up at the Lyceum this even- 
ing. ... On the same day last week I received a 
letter from Dewey,! and another from Carey, and ac- 
cording to both their accounts they must have been 
in raptures with each other. Dewey sends love to 
friend Torrey, and Carey kind regards to Dr. and 
Mrs. T. Dewey says Carey is rather savage upon 
species, and where Carey has not given him a favora- 
ble opinion upon any, it would amuse you to see how 
Dewey has detailed them to me, in order if possible 
to save the poor creatures’ lives. Dewey has a good 
spirit and is altogether a most estimable man, and I am 
sorry that we have to pull down any of his work. I 
must write him a few things, that it may not come 
upon him all at once... . Yours truly, 
A. GRAY. 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
New York, April 7, 1836. 
Dear Str, —I take the opportunity of acknow- 
ledging the receipt of your two kind letters, which 
reached me a few weeks since nearly at the same time, 
one by the Liverpool packet and the other by the 
Lady Hannah Ellice. Allow me also to thank you 
1 Chester oe 1784-1887 ; professor in Williams College, ronal 
chusetts. Removed to Rochester, N. Y., 1836, where he died. ‘“ Car- 
ried on the eae of Carex and published: on them for more than forty 
years ” AF 
