grow about here.
I am voluntarily very busy
[everyday?]. Hope to do a great deal
of work this winter with the
microscope. Shall begin to
mount the [?] Herbarium
in a few days. The paper has
just been ordered of [James?] [?]
& Co.
I received a copy of your new
book while at Cambridge but
have not had time to acknowledge
it. It is but natural I should
heartily approve of the arrangement
of the matter. It meets my approval
fact because it's in a line with
what I have been taught and
because my [?] thought
[?] with it. I believe
the book cannot help but exert
a story and salutary [?]
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upon the direction of botanist
thought in [the counting?]. Heretofore
to be a botanist has been to
be a systematist; and to study
botany has been to [care?] about
the structure and classification
of flowering plants almost
exclusively. Physiological
botany has had no text-book
and no prominence, and so
with the study of the lower
plants, I look upon the advent
of your book as the first rays
of the dawn of a new era for
American botany, when the
name shall mean botany and
"not" a superficial knowledge of
the natural history and classification
of flowering plants, and
when to be an assiduous collector
