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BT. 25.) TO W. J. HOOKER. 59 
ent as Dr. Hooker. I hope to send you a parcel by 
the first opportunity that occurs of sending direct to 
Glasgow : when I will put up specimens of the mosses 
you desire, and will send a copy of the “ Graminee 
and Cyperacee” for the gentleman at Paris who 
wishes it. 
It is so troublesome and expensive to get them 
bound that I should much prefer, if any of your 
friends and correspondents should desire them, to send 
the specimens with labels and loose title-pages, at $4 
per volume, each comprising, as you are aware, one 
hundred species. I may in that way furnish larger and 
often more perfect or more numerous specimens than 
in the bound copies. I hope to publish the third 
(and perhaps also the fourth) volume early next 
autumn. 
Allow me to express my thanks for your kind assist- 
ance in various ways, and to say that I shall hereafter 
(D. V.) prosecute the study of our lovely science with 
increased zeal. I remain, with sentiments of the high- 
est esteem, 
Your much obliged friend, Asa GRAY. 
October 10, 1836. 
IT also beg your acceptance of a copy of a little ele- 
mentary botanical work published last spring. I do 
not expect it to possess any particular interest in your 
eyes; but in this country, unfortunately, no popular 
and at the same time scientific elementary treatise 
has been generally accessible to botanical students, 
and such a work was so greatly needed that I felt 
constrained to make the attempt, since no better- 
qualified person could be induced to undertake the 
labor. 
