7. 39.] TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 365 
bly either to Jamaica (where Dr. Alexander now is) or 
to the mountains at the St. Iago end of Cuba, a terra 
incognita nearly. Harvey is a most winning man ; my 
wife: and I have become — attached to him, 
and are sorry to part wit 
We do not mean to let rth naturalist be idle who 
comes to this country, so he is already engaged to give 
illustrations of our peculiar Algz for the Smithsonian 
contributions and to prepare (after his return home, 
of course) a manual of United States Algz after the 
fashion of his second edition of “ British Alge.” 
There will be no small demand for it. . 
P.S.— Mr. Wright got through oe El Paso in 
southern New Rake. and is on his way back, with, 
he says, a fine collection. 
We got some fine daguerreotypes of Harvey, so 
much better, he says, than he has seen in England 
that he has had an extra one taken for Lady Hooker. 
TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 
CAMBRIDGE, January 7, 1850. 
Your letter of December 4th and your very flattering 
article in the December number of “ Hooker’s Jour- 
nal”’ were both most gratifying; and the remarks on 
the Mimosa were timely, as 1 was just about con- 
signing the manuscript of the earlier part of the new 
“Plante Lindheimeriane”’ to the printer. I like 
what you say about “ deduplication” much, and freely 
accept almost all. I took the name coined to my 
hand, not feeling at liberty to coin a new one. | 
think the production of new organs one before the 
other can be pretty well explained morphologically 
and anatomically, in accordance with your hint, and 
shall attempt to work it out in the third edition of my 
