
          If you think it best to do them according to the new 
 lights, I will see if we can jump over some of the difficulties. 
 But you may well imagine that I cannot turn a 
 thought that way, at present.


 I wish you could see my Lowell anatomical illustrations. 
 The pity is that I shall hardly use them in this
 course, now that my introductory lecture only brings me down to them 
 (but I shall have them spread to look at), and I can only [crossed out: illegible] [added: give]
 to the subject about 20 minutes of my second lecture. 


 But it is very late indeed. Adieu. 


 Yours cordially A. [Asa] Gray


 Monday Morning.


 The valuable package sent a year ago to Delessert,
 for several French Naturalists, and which I feared was totally lost,
 has at last come to hand, as I learn by a note from Dr. Montague, and
 some communications from Sullivant which have passed through my hands. 


 I have a letter from Prof. [Professor] Gibbes of Charleston, who says his health 
 has suffered much during the past year. He thinks you owe 
 him a letter, but says he shall write you soon. 


 I have also a letter from [Crutis?]: nothing in particular, except 
 that he says he has sent you a box of roots, which have not come to 
 hand. Has Henry decided to leave Princeton and take the 
 Philada [Philadelphia] professorship? I wish you had a good professorship here, where pay, 
 if it be not very large, is prompt and certain! 


 If I understand you are now perfectly cleared from pecuniary obligation
 on account of the unfortunate Lyceum? 


 In haste, as you may imagine,
 I remain Yours faithfully 


 A. [Asa] Gray
        