550 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1866, 



August 7. 

 . . . You should study Wyman's observations in 

 his own papers. He is always careful to keep his in- 

 ferences close to his facts, and is as good an experi- 

 menter, I judge, as he is an observer. He has a new 

 series of observations to publish. I think that he has 

 not at all pronounced in favor of spontaneous genera- 

 tion, but I will bet on his experiments against Pas- 

 teur, any day. 



TO CHARLES WEIGHT. 



NoTember 23. 



You may well complain that I neglect you. But — 



1. I had, till now, nothing special to write. 



2. I have been daily expecting to hear from Grise- 

 bach, and have sheets to send you, or the copies via 

 Westermann. But not a bit of it yet. The con- 

 quest of Hanover by the Prussians seems to have 

 annihilated Grisebach. 



3. I have been, am so — husy is not the word for it, 

 I can't think of any to express it. I suppose that I 

 have now lying by me more than fifty unanswered 

 letters, though I keep answering the most pressing as 

 fast nearly as they come in. But the rest get neg- 

 lected, inevitably. I read your letters and follow 

 your work in Cuba with interest. I want you to get 

 all the plants you can (but I see not that you can 

 exhaust Cuba), and then come and settle down here, 

 and work up, as you only can, a nice Flora Cubana. 

 That you are bound to do, just as I am to do the 

 Flora of North America. I see some faint prospect 

 that I may yet, and before very long, be able to sit 

 down to it. But you and I are bound to do these two 

 things yet ! . . . 



