
          to see my young friend Dr. Joseph
Hooker.

I am therefore rubbing my
eyes and collecting my faculties.
I fear I shall now have an
arduous task. The silly professor
at Gasglow insists on a winter
course of botany, to commence
early in January, and I have
every thing yet to prepare. I 
suppose I must give them such
off hand stuff as comes uppermost 
to my mind. I am sure
the students would be better 
employed in skating, for not
a plant or flower will be 
attainable.

The preparing a proper course 
of lectures will occupy me for
more than a year, so that
        