«T. 69.] TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 695 



TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 



Cajsibkidqe, January 17, 1880. 



Dear Friend, — We go Monday night on to 

 Washington, leaving here at five p. M. My lectures 

 are fixed for February 5 and 6, so that I shall return 

 from Washington and go on specially to New Haven. 



I expect to be at home the last week of the month, 

 but perhaps not on Monday, and I should wish to see 

 you and read my second lecture, which is dragging its 

 slow length along ! . . . 



Cambbidge, March 11, 1880. 



I have this moment received and read from Newman 

 Smyth a flattering note, and a copy of his article in 

 the " Advance." A very good one it is, and his own 

 thoughts are noteworthy and to the point. 



President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins sent me a 

 very admiring letter, in which he urges a student's 

 edition, on thinner paper and paper covers, which he 

 wants to subscribe for. I shall send it to the pub- 

 lisher before long. 



April 11, 1880. 



I am amused at Professor 's substitution of 



demiurgism for evolution, reprinted in the " Indepen- 

 dent," and at the coolness with which the professor 

 proclaims that a hypothesis which he thinks is good 

 for nothing else may be good to put against evolu- 

 tionism. 



Darwin has sent me advance sheets of his book on 

 Advantage of Crosses (not moral but floral crosses, 

 and not crosses made of flowers, but those made by in- 

 sects and winds for the benefit of flowers), and I see 

 much in it which you will enjoy. I am too full of 

 work to use it next week, and if you tell me you will 



