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&r. 32.) TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 297 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
CAMBRIDGE, January 3, 1845. 
Your letter, truly welcome after 80 long an inter- 
val, reached me yesterday. I should have been very 
glad to be with you during the holidays, but cannot 
think of leaving before I finish these interminable 
Composite. I hoped to have accomplished this on 
Saturday last; all but taking up some dropped 
stitches ; but was a good deal intacrmpted last week. 
The Deesmher number of “ Annals and Magazine of 
Natural History” (of which Professor Balfour is the 
botanical editor) contains a very complimentary no- 
tice of the “ Botanical Text-Book,” accompanied with 
a few judicious selections, which shows that the writer 
has looked it over carefully ; and winds up by term- 
ing it the best elementary treatise (as to structural 
botany) in the English language. So easy is it to get 
praise where it is not particularly deserved! .. . 
My great object for next year is to attempt to raise 
%10,000 from some of our rich men, to rebuild our 
greenhouse on a larger and handsome scale. There 
are a few men, who have never given anything to the 
college, who may perhaps be induced to give for this 
object. 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
CamprincE, Mass., February 15, 1843. 
I note with interest what you propose in regard to 
Lindheimer’s collections for sale in Centuri, fall into 
your plans, and will advertise in “ Silliman’s Journal” 
(and in “ London Journal of Botany”) when all is 
arranged. Pray let him get roots and seeds for me. I 
will do all I can for him. But if the Oregon bill 
passes, a party under Lieutenant Frémont, or some 
