
          is reviving, and is again a Candidate for the Chair 
 at Glasgow! I wish you would write to him. 
 I do not yet hear more from Oakes. I shall 
 soon know if he is at work. 


 My Lowell Lectures begin in six weeks from 
 Tuesday next, & are done on the 20th February. 
 I have got them pretty well blocked out, and have 
 no doubt I shall make an interesting course. 


 I must not forget to tell you how pleased I am to 
 find out how fully Mr. Lowell has taken root in
 Botany during the last year or so. He is getting 
 zealous, is accumulating a splendid botanical 
 library. (I enclose to you the Catalogue he just made 
 out for me. Send it back in your next letter, he 
 has already ordered at my suggestion [J. Forbes] Royle's Himalaya
 Botany and other costly works, and says he will order 
 anything whatever that I want! He inquires to 
 about modes of dissecting flowers , &c. under his little Chevalier
 microscope, and altogether worthy of serious cultivation. 
 He joins me in a remittance to Lindheimer for Texan 
 seeds, [crossed out: bulbs][added: bulbs] & live plants, subscribes to the Lindheimer dried 
 plants, and, if you will send Knieskern to Santa Fe, 
 and he will collect live bulbs, cacti &c. I will 
 venture to subscribe for Mr. Lowell & myself $200 worth of 
 these & dried plants, if you think he will be efficient. But 
 with my present opinion of his dilly-dallying disposition, I 
 would not take the responsibility of an advance.


 But I must close. In haste
 Yours affectionately
 A. Gray
        