My dear Mi:DaveniJort , 



I have heard nothing from you in 



jlong time. 



Much has happened in the botanicai v;orld lately and "^have had quite 

 a good deal of experience myself. Coulter's editorial in the Sept. 

 Gazette expresses the true spirit of the Rochester meeting which was 

 indeed an event of a lifetime. It v;as plain to see that the centre of 

 botanic thought and force, liKe that of population , has moved westward 

 and that with the loss of two leaders in botany, Cambridge was no lon- 

 ger a ruling spirit ih phanerogamic botany, and notwith^^tanding the 

 assumptions of a few connected with the museum, the new men, from the 

 cryptogamic laboratories t'hroughout the country ,are|Leaving Cambridge out 

 in the cold in cryptogam.ic botany too. My trip to (renoa was full of 

 interest. In addition to the novelty (to me) of ajtrip across the sea 

 I had exceptional advantages for meeting repre3entative||feotanists from 

 all countries. An account of the trip will appear in the next Gazette 

 and an accourit of the action on nomenclature in the Torrey Bulletin for 

 Nov. 



