BT. 35.] TO JOHN TORREY. 343 
October Sth. 
By the way, meeting Agassiz last evening, I was 
pleased to learn that hes elatnad you as a hovkuate, 
and spoke of you with lively pleasure. He is a fine, 
pleasant fellow. We shall take good care of him here. 
January 5, 1847. 
I am glad so fine a collection is on the way from 
Lindheimer, and greatly approve his going to the 
mountains on the Guadaloupe. How high are the 
mountains? If good, real mountains, and ie can get 
on to them, and into secluded valleys, he will do great 
things. . . 
We will kee ahead of the Bonn people. By the 
close of next summer (Deo favente) we may hope to 
have the botany of Texas pretty well in our hands. 
Do you hear from Fendler? Hooker says that re- 
gion, the mountains especially, is the best ground to 
explore in North America! There is a high moun- 
tain right back of Santa Fé. Fendler must ravish it. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
Wednesday, [October, 1846]. 
A Mr. Baird,! of Carlisle, Pa., called on me yester- 
day, evidently a most keen naturalist (ornithology 
principally), but a man of more than common grasp. 
He talked about an evergreen-leaved Vaccinium, which 
IT have no doubt is V. brachycerum, Mx., that I have 
so long sought in vain! .. . 
3th October, 1846. 
I leave Agassiz in New York. He will leave New 
York Wednesday morning; join me at Princeton, 
1 Spencer F. ee afterward widely known as secretary of the 
Sasishenaten Institu 
