352 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [1845, 
trated, ending with diatoms, transitions to corallines 
through sponge, ete., and the locomotive spores of 
Confervie, Zodsporez. 
Lecture 10. Whole subject of spontaneous move- 
ments and sensibility in flowering plants, the life of 
plants, ete. (treated in a somewhat original way), and 
the real differences between plants and animals. 
Lecture 11. The principles of classification. Indi- 
viduals, species, their permanence, genera, orders, ete. 
ecture 12. Historical development. The Linnean 
system, the natural. This ends so as to give me a 
fine place to begin at next year... . 
I shall soon be able to spare Sprague to draw the 
Illicium, if it still holds on. But I cannot spare him 
just yet. He has still to copy the red-snow bank 
from Ross, eighteen feet long! — finish two pieces of 
algze, ete., ete. 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
April 5, 1845. 
IT anxiously wait for the notices of the life and 
writings of your lamented father, which you so kindly 
offer. I agree with you that that of Daubeny! gives 
the best view of the philosophy of his science; and 
yet there are points of view that he has not touched 
upon. You, of course, know better than any one else 
what were your father’s philosophical views in 
natural history, his modes of thinking and working ; 
and if, when you send me the above-mentioned docu- 
ments, you would also feel at liberty to place such 
confidence in me as to give me your own views and 
suggestions upon the subject, and especially upon the 
1 Dr. Charles Daubeny, G. B., 1795-1867; professor of botany and 
rural economy at Oxford ; denuke: and geologist. 
