
          Prof'r [Professor] J. Torrey
 Princeton
 New Jersey


 Gray tells me that "The title-form of Genera Bor. Amer. Confed. 
 Illustrata [i.e. Genera florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis illustrata?], has gone to the Printer"-- & that next week he shall
 begin to deliver. I suuppose, however, he keeps you well advised
 of his doings, from time to time.


 What awful times in Europe! Blood is again about to
 flow, in Rivers-- I greatly fear. Men will not fight, as mere
 automata, under command; but each, for himself, in a
 fearfully [unpassioned?] view of a principle! So it seems to me,
 at least.
        