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to the tune of $2,050. No publisher would take it, 

 and assume the expense, so I have to carry it myself 

 and botanists must buy it, if they want it. I hope 

 many botanists and libraries wiU do so ; for I must 

 get the outlay back again, or a good part of it, before 

 I go on. Hence, notices in the scientific journals and 

 elsewhere may be serviceable to me. 



I will not speak of or count the time and hard labor 

 I have bestowed on the work. 



My last visit to Washington was a sad one, to at- 

 tend the funeral of my dear old friend Professor 

 Joseph Henry, to whom we are all greatly indebted. 

 When I saw him in January, at the annual meeting 

 of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, it was 

 too evident that he would not much longer be with us. 



As may be remembered. Dr. Gray, when in Paris 

 in 1839, foiuid in Michaux's herbarium a plant which 

 he describes as new, giving it the name of Shortia 

 galacifolia, in honor of his old friend Dr. Short of 

 Louisville, Ky. One great object of his later journeys 

 to the southern Alleghanies was the search for this 

 plant. No botanist had succeeded in rediscovering 

 it, and many doubted if Dr. Gray had not been mis- 

 taken, though he found among Japanese plants, sent 

 from St. Petersburg, one of the same genus, with a 

 rude Japanese woodcut. It was therefore a great 

 triumph when it was accidentally discovered by an 

 herb-collector, Mr. Hyams, in North Carolina. The 

 next journey to the mountains, in 1879, was planned 

 to search for it especially. 



An account of the rediscovery and a description of 

 the plant is given in " American Journal of Science," 

 iii., xvi., pp. 483, 1878. Mr. Sargent repeats the story 



