
          My Dear Friend 


 When you return to Princeton I 
 shall be much obliged if you will look into your 
 herbm [herbarium] for a few flowers, fertile flowers of 
 Cocculus Carolinus. Our plate is waiting for 
 them only. I had stam. [staminate] flowers from the 
 garden, & good fruit etc. from my specimens, 
 but pist. [pistillate] flowers I have not, neither have Greene 
 or Mr. Lowell. Two or three in a letter will 
 suffice. Rogers & his friends are 
 grievously disappointed at the filling up of our 
 Rumford Chair. Lately, since Agassiz has 
 so unsparingly & thoroughly cut up Lamarkian [Lamarckian]
 Vestiges theories, Rogers & friends have found it 
 was high time to disclaim them, and something, 
 we know not what, induced them to think that, 
 on privately renewing him as a Candidate, they
 were to [added, in pencil: succeed in] carrying in without our knowledge till all 
 was done. But "it was the dog that died", 
 as the song runs. It was they who were taken 
 aback by the sudden appointment of another man. 


 Dr. Warren has also announced his intention 
        