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to have a good time. On Saturday
Prof. Gray sailed for Europe.

I wrote you on recieipt
of the "Botany" and since
then I have been trying to
write more about it. Having
read it I am now prepared
to congratulate you
intelligently on its successful
issue. I was very much
pleased with it and think
it does you great credit.
I have read the [cryptogamic?]
portion pretty thoroughly and
it seems to me that you
have gone farther than
any text-book in English
and you have brought
several points more nearly
up to the [times?] than is
done in [?]. You ask for
my criticism and I give