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cure the flowers. Please lay an injunction upon Nut- 
tall, that he publish no other Shortia, and I will do 
the same to Hooker in a letter that I am now writing. 
Indeed I think I will tell him some of its chief pecul- 
iarities, and then give him leave to publish the extract 
jin the “* Annals of Natural History” if he thinks it 
worth while.! 
I attended a meeting of the Institute this after- 
noon. <An election of a correspondent took place, 
which ran very close between Charles Buonaparte and 
Agassiz, but the latter carried it ! 
I must not forget to tell you about the Loganiaceous 
plant from Florida, for so Decaisne, to whom I gave 
leave to sacrifice a flower for drawing, has determined 
it to be; so Brown’s hint is confirmed. There is 
something rather queer about the style, which, as 
Brown’s “ Prodromus ” is not before me, I cannot say 
is also the case in any of the subgenera or genera he 
has indicated. 
Euploea, Decaisne says, is certainly apocyneous. 
Nuttall, I believe, places it in Boraginez. 
April 9. —I heard Mirbel octane to-day, commen- 
cing his course at the Sorbonne. He is a very good 
and clear lecturer, of the colloquial sort, and illus- 
trates very well by rapid sketches on the blackboard. 
I believe you did not see him. In the contour of his 
features and in expression he is a good deal like Dr. 
Peters, except that his countenance is more attenu- 
ated, his features small and very little prominent, and 
his complexion light. At the Ecole de Médecine | 
was not fortunate enough to hit the chemical profes- 
sor. I heard a portion of a lecture in the anatomical 
theatre, but soon came away. 
1 The rediscovery of Shortia in 1878 is deseribed on p. 682. 
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