
          Please add the Meisner to 
 Sullivant's parcel. 


 I have received such a 
 singular letter from Dewey, 
 which is almost abusive. Nat. [Natural]
 System, Morphology and all is 
 equally unintelligible to him. He 
 winds up by saying. "So, annual
 plants die because their vitality is 
 exhausted in one year.! Yes, and 
 so are many things!" Bravo.


 I thought of replying to it, by 
 saying that his Report is sufficient 
 evidence of the impractibility 
 of the Nat. [Natural] System, at least in 
 his hands. Had I not best touch
 him up about his Bartonias in
 Loasaceae? But I think I 
 will trim his letter to better 
 account, by reading it to Emerson, 
 and so laughing him out of his 
 remaining Linnaeanism, by showing 
 him how difficult it is for one of 
 Dewey's class to rise to the conception 
        