I have no objection to give him money for this specimen, if he wants it. But I would not advise that he advertise it. But if he can find plenty of roots, he might legitimately put them on sale, and get a good price. Why should he not? I did not say, before, that this discovery has given me a hundred times the satisfaction that the election into the Institute did. That caused no particular elation. This has been a great satisfaction. November 5, 1878. ... I send a brief notice to “Silliman’s Journal.” And I am finishing an account of the matter, which I will send to Paris, to Decaisne, for the “Académie des Sciences,” as a “Correspondent” ought. I have declined to risk the specimen by mail, till we get more, which is not so certain. November 9, 1878. ... He (Hyams) sent me some loose flowers, to help out. I have sent manuscript to Paris, and shall send back Decaisne’s old drawing, and drawing of flower and details, now making by Sprague to be reproduced in the “Annales des Sciences Naturelles,” since this ought to please the French. You can go to see and get specimens, even if I do not. Yet I will go if--at the time--I can. April 5, 1879. On April 1 (ominous day) began Compositæ.... TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. April 1, 1878. ... I like an article to begin or end with an aphorism, or some sort of snapper. I think you may end your next article with a condensed expression like this: Not vitality but personality is the witness for immortality! October 24, 1878. ... Yes, I read with interest and approval your article on Hypothesis. I am pressed with work now all this week. I would send you the proofs of Newcomb’s article,[106] but you will get it in the “Independent” almost as soon. Read, mark, and tell me what I should say. I must now lay myself out on this matter. If you will allow, I want to drop, throw out, praying for the weather quoad weather. I shall take my time, but shall be turning the matter in my mind, at the end of this week and beginning of the next. Perhaps I may see you on Monday here, unless I am called away. TO A. DE CANDOLLE. CAMBRIDGE, January 24, 1879. MY DEAR DE CANDOLLE,--I have just returned from Washington, where I had to read a memorial of our late secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Professor Henry,[107] and I have returned somewhat crippled by lumbago. I took with me your pleasant letter of the 29th December, intending to write to you from there, but I found no time. The present moment is opportune, as I cannot well move about as I must do in my ordinary work.... I have sent for Saporta’s book, and shall study it with interest. Glad I am that your “Phytographie” is in hand. I wish I had it now before me; for I have now to write something on the subject for a new edition of my “Botanical Text-Book,” now in hand.