^T. 44.] TO W. J. HOOKER. 411 



send you a copy myself, but at the request of M. Ra- 

 mond I surrendered the small extra edition to his 

 charge for distribution. In due time you wiU have a 

 copy in the volume of the " Memoirs of the Amer- 

 ican Academy " also. My daguerreotype of M. Jus- 

 sieu was most opportunely taken. His family, having 

 no recent portrait, have solicited the loan of it, to aid 

 in the preparation of an engraved likeness; and I 

 have placed it in their hands. 



I delayed the last sheet of the " Correspondence " 

 long, awaiting an answer to my request for some ma- 

 terials (notices, eloges, etc.), from which I could pre- 

 pare something of a biographical nature to append, 

 but I received nothing, at least until too late. In the 

 May number of the " Kew Journal of Botany," Hooker 

 has reprinted my brief note ; but by some accident, 

 the marks of quotation are omitted from the two last 

 paragraphs, which appear as if written by the editor 

 of the "Journal." . . . 



Believe me to remain, my dear friend and honored 

 colleague, as ever, your sincerely attached, 



Asa Geat. 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



Camebidgb, February 5, 1855. 



My deae Sie William, — The inclosed, from our 

 good friend Dr. Short,i and the box it advises, came 

 while I was at Washington, from which I have just 

 returned. Mrs. Gray and I have enjoyed our month's 

 holiday very much ; though I was kept busy enough, 



1 Charles W. Short, M. D., 1794-1862 ; professor of materia raed- 

 ica in the UniTersity of Transylvania, Lexington, Ky. Removed later 

 to Louisville. Dr. Gray named for him Shortia galacifolia, discovered 

 in Miohaux's herbarium in Paris, in 1839. 



