
          Curtis, which he wants my remarks on.
 Please send by Express, adding anything 
 that Grant may find for 
 me at W. & P. [Wiley & Putnam's].


 Sorry I did not know that Mrs. 
 T. [Torrey] was in New York, think I should 
 have come on, as in 5 weeks now
 my college duties begin, and I am 
 fixed here till July. 


 Can you send notes of Lobeliaceae
 & Campanulaceae?


 Agassiz has finished his lectures 
 with great ecl�t, most admirable 
 course, and on Thursday evening last he 
 [crossed out: volun?] volunteered an additional one 
 in French, which was fine. 


 I gave you the explanation you 
 asked for in my last letter, which I 
 still hope you will find. What I 
 then said, about the excellent tone of his 
 lectures generally was fully sustained to 
 the last, they have been good lectures 
 on natural theology. The whole 
 spirit was vastly above that of any 
 geological course I ever heard, his 
 refutation of Lamarckian or Vestiges views 

        