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other friends in Cambridge. Of this, too, he was a most 
aithful member. The dln’ met twice a month at the 
houses of the different members in turn, and the one 
at whose house it met was expected to bring forward 
some subject, generally from his specialty, which later 
was discussed and criticised. Many of the new inter- 
ests in science were here first presented by Dr. Gray. 
ong the founders and early members were, 
Charles Beck, Francis Bowen, Admiral Davis, Epes 
S. Dixwell, Edward Everett, President Felton, Asa 
Gray, Simon Greenleaf, Thaddeus Mason Harris, 
Joseph Lovering, Benjamin Peirce, Josiah Quincy, 
Jared Sparks, Daniel Treadwell, James Walker, Jo- 
seph E. Worcester, the lexicographer, and Morrill 
Wyman, M. D. Later, among those no longer living, 
were added at different times Louis Agassiz, Thomas 
Hill, Joel Parker, Emory Washburn, and Joseph Win- 
lock. The club is still in existence. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
Boston, Monday, 25th July, 1842. 
My pear Doctor, — Having time before the mail 
closes to write a hurried letter, I hasten to let you 
know that I have this morning secured lodgings at 
Cambridge, at a retired house, off the main road, 
about halfway between the colleges and the Garden. 
For $3.00 per week, I have two rooms, one pretty large, 
one moderate (of which I shall make a bedroom), a 
small nearly dark bedroom which I shall shelve and 
use for my herbarium, and three closets, furnished 
decently (but not extravagantly !!), in a house where 
there can at most be only one other lodger, and he 
must ascend by a different staircase from mine, — the 
rooms and bed linen, ete., to be kept in order. 
