A-T. 47.] TO DANIEL CADY EATON. 439 



Suppose you come on, count as a pupil, or as a vis- 

 itor, as you like, work away as you think best, making 

 preparations for your course, in Vhicli I will help you 

 all I can. And at the same time work up Wright's 

 Hongkong and Bonin and Japan ferns (bring any 

 books you want which I have not). I want to drill 

 you a little at systematic work, and think you will 

 learn something that way. Come straight here. We 

 shall want you to stay with us, if the house is empty. 

 And if not we shall make no difficulty of sending you 

 down to the Brattle House. But it would be so much 

 more convenient here. 



I am very desirous that you should be duly estab- 

 lished at Yale, and have no doubt you will satisfy the 

 college and fill the place with comfort and credit. 



We will talk over matters at odd moments when 

 you come. 



I shall be most glad to help you as a friend and 

 fellow-worker ; but I cannot promise any special in- 

 struction, and shall take no fee. " Dog does not eat 

 dog," is the saying, you know. 



Judge Lowell writes, in 1888, " I was in college 

 when Dr. Gray was appointed to his professorship at 

 Harvard, and ours was, I think, the first or one of the 

 first classes to whom he lectured. I remember his lec- 

 tures well, they were so full of knowledge and of en- 

 thusiasm and so calcidated to impress the young mind. 



" I suppose he had not lectured much of late years ; 

 and in his many other successes, his powers as a lec- 

 turer may have been overlooked by those who have 

 written of him." 



Dr. Eothroek, in his address before the memorial 

 meeting of the botanical section of the Academy at 



