April 2, 1850.
We were most glad to receive your kind favor of January 29, which, however, lay over a fortnight in England, and in the mean time we heard not only of Dr. Hooker’s capture, but also, with much gratification, of his release. What an indefatigable man he is!
Finding myself greatly behindhand, on account of various hindrances and miscalculation of time, and utterly unable to accomplish half the work I had intended to do this spring, I have decided to break off; and to sail, in a packet-ship from Boston, on the 5th of June, with Mrs. Gray, for Liverpool, which we may hope to reach by the close of that month. This will give us an opportunity of seeing England in its summer dress, and to make, almost immediately following the sea voyage, a trip up the Rhine to Switzerland. On our return I must set to work diligently, and for a little while with Mr. Bentham, who has kindly offered to look over the tropical collections, which I know little of, and love as little.
The rewriting of all the structural parts of my 3d edition of the “Botanical Text-Book,” which I was inadvertently drawn into, has proved a most time-consuming business. It is not yet through the press.
Wright’s collection of seeds I had divided into two parts, and I send you one by the hands of Mr. Lowell, who with his whole family goes out by this steamer. You will receive them in good time to raise them....
Mr. Lowell is of great use to us, in helping on these explorations, and I look to his visit to Europe, the sight of the great collections, and the society of naturalists to strengthen his tastes and fire his zeal in these respects.
I long to have him and Mrs. Lowell, a very good. friend of ours, make your acquaintance.
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [X], [Y], [Z]
Abercrombie, John, [103].
Abert, [356].
Abies, 672.
Abolition, [296].
Accident, Railroad, 690.
Accidents, 377, 737.
Acland, Sir Henry, 722, 737, 803.
Acland, Sir Thomas, 806.
Aconitum reclinatum, 689.
Acrolasia, [223].
Acton, Lord, 802.
Adams, C. F., 636, 641, 733.
Adelsburg, Fête at Grotto of, [212], [213].
Agassiz, L., [179], [343-346], [349], 410, 432, 450, 455.
Agassiz, A., 719, 747, 600.
Agriculture, Mass. Society for Promotion of, 817.
Albro, J. A., [296], [328], 395.
Alleghanies, Botany of Southern, [280].
Allen, A. V. G., 779, 789.
Alpine Plants, [229];
what they are, 783.
Alvord, Col. and Mrs., 769, 770.
American Academy, [286], 397, 405, 700;
corresponding secretary of, [355];
president, 641.
American Association, 698, 735, 756;
president, 619, 628.
“American Journal of Science,” [19], [32].
Amici, G. B., [200], [201].
Ancestry, [1], [2], [3].
Andersson, J. N., 545.
Anemone Hudsonica, [46].
Ann Arbor, [79], [80].
Antarctic Expedition, [130], [162].
Anthephora, 451, 453.
“Antiquity of Man, The,” 503, 504.
Architecture, 806.
Arenaria brevifolia, 652.
Argyle, 501.
Arnold, Matthew, 747, 748.
Arnott, G. A. W., [22], [96], [129], [130].
Arthur, J. C., 755.
Arthur, J. C., and others, letter to, 777.
Assassination of Lincoln, 534.
Asters, [279], 696, 697, 699, 701, 713-716, 726, 792.
Astilbe, 428.
Audubon, 790.
Austin, C. F., 555.
Autobiography, [1].
Avery, C., [9], [10], [18].
Avery, E., [7], [8], [9].
Azalea, [315].
Babington, C., 713.
Backhouse, 722.
Bacon, 743, 748, 749.
Bailey, J. W., [68], [128], [129].
Bailey, W. W., 682.
Baird, S. F., [343], 811.
Baker, 592, 702.
Balfour, Arthur J., 693.
Balfour, I. Bayley, 702, 803.
Balfour, J. H., [22], [101].
Ball, J., 713, 744, 753, 757, 784, 785, 788.
Banks’ herbarium, [148].
Barber, 770.
Barbey, 720.
Bartlett’s School, [16], [18], [19], [29], [37], [49].
Bateman, [131].
Bates, 507.
Bauer, F., [22], [116], [128], [129].
Beaumont, J. F., 392, 394.
Beck, L. C., [15], [16], [39], [40].
Beck’s Flora, [39].
Bell, Sir C., [102], [131].
Bennett, J. J., [22], [110], [137], 371, 592, 596, 646.
Bentham, George, references to, [22], [114], [123], [126], [128], [132], [143], [152], 376, 378, 418, 427, 486, 547, 559, 566, 592, 611, 685, 702, 712, 720, 733, 741, 743, 758, 759, 760, 797, 814.
—— Letters to, [267], [365], 382, 427, 434, 437, 447, 547, 552, 559, 600, 691, 741, 745.
Bentham, Lady, [187], [188].
Bequest, 816.
Berlandier, J. L., [173];
plants of, 415.
Berlin, Royal Herbarium, [268].
Berlin Botanic Garden, [269].
Bernard de Jussieu, [177].
Beverly Farms, 739.
Biasoletto, [25], [209].
Bidwell, J., 771.
Big Trees, 412.
Bigelow, Jacob, [284], [288], 558, 685.
Bignonia capreolata (Tendrils), 548.
Birth, [3-5].
Birth-day, 70th, 710;
75th, 776.
Blachford, Lord, 654, 664, 665, 693, 749, 806.
Blume, C. L., 376.
Boat-race, International, 591, 594.
Boissier, E., [24], [26], [167], 374, 375, 418, 589, 680, 720, 781.
Bolander’s collection, 559.
Bonafous, 493.
Bond, G., 500.
Boott, F., M. D., [22], [91], [110], [123], [132], [149], 370, 473, 478, 511, 522.
—— Carices, [91], [171].
Bornet, 644.
Botanic Garden, Cambridge, [28], [290], [291], [297], [298], [304], [325], [326], [357], 445.
Antibes, 569, 572.
Chiswick, [116], [270].
Edinburgh, [101], [105].
Geneva, [270].
Ghent, 372.
Glasgow, [89].
Hamburg, [269].
Jardin des Plantes, [23], [24], [157], [158], 381.
Kew, [116], 371, 377, 384.
Leyden, 376.
Liverpool, [88].
Madrid, 701.
Medical Botanic Garden, Paris, [24].
Missouri, 752, 753, 761.
Montpellier, [186], [187].
Munich, [233], [240].
Oxford, 379.
Padua, [204], 718.
Poppelsdorf, 373.
Regent’s Park, [121].
Schönberg, [269].
Schönbrunn, [218].
Tharand Forst-Academie, 589.
Valencia, 707.
Vienna, [215], 795.
“Botanical Text-Book,” [28], [368].
Botany, dawning of taste for, [14].
Botany, Geographical. See Geographical Botany.
Botanical Society, Royal, of Regensburg, [56].
Botteri, M., 764.
Bourier, 700.
Bowen, F., 561.
Bowerbank, J. S., [137], [138].
Brace, C. L., letters to, 458, 460, 461, 462;
references to, 371, 624.
Brace, J. P., [348].
Brackenridge’s Filices, 404, 423.
Brandegee, T. S., 671, 672.
Braun, A., 374, 383.
Breeding, cross. See Fertilization.
Brewer, W. H., 532, 636.
Brewster, Sir David, [104].
Brigham, C. 769.
British Association, 387, 592, 722, 756, 759, 791, 807.
British Museum, [22], [110], [132], [146], [153], 379, 387, 592.
Britton, N. L., letter to, 813.
Brongniart, A. T., [23], [174], 382, 418, 611.
Brooks, Phillips, 805.
Brougham, Lord, [165].
Brown, R., [22], [110], [112], [115], [120], [124], [128], [132], [141], [151], [175], 371, 376, 378, 387, 418, 442, 443, 449, 451, 463, 498.
Browne, W., 731, 756.
Browning, 713.
Bryce, 804.
Buckle, 613.
Buckley, S. B., [311].
Bunbury, 788.
Buonaparte, C., [179].
Burgess, E., 668.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, [120], [121], [137].
Butler, B. F., 746, 748.
Cairnes, 491.
California, journey to, 627, 670, 761.
Calluna vulgaris, 468.
Cambridge, Mass., appointment at, [27].
call to, [283-286].
removal to, [287].
Cambridge University, England, degree at, 800.
Canby, W. M., Letters to, 556, 641, 648, 651, 682, 687, 779;
references to, 557, 633, 686.
Canby and Redfield, letters to, 712, 723.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 804.
Carex, Boott’s collection of, [91], [92].
Carey, John, [20], [26], [33], [322], [354], 407, 697.
Carlyle, 742.
Carpenter, 740.
Carruthers, W., 592.
Caruel, T., 607.
Catesby, plants of, [146].
Cathedrals, 806.
Cats, 436.
Cavendish, 451.
Censorship of the press (Vienna), [216].
“Ceratophyllaceæ, Remarks on,” [20].
Ceratophyllum, 691.
Cereus giganteus, 408.
Chalmers, [102].
Channing, E. T., [27].
Chapman, A. W., 540, 545, 650.
Chapmannia, [147].
“Characteristics of the North American Flora,” 756.
Chevreuil, 797.
Chiswick Gardens, [116].
Christison, Sir R., [104].
Christy, W., [119].
Church, R. W., letters to, 394, 403, 429, 444, 463, 518, 523, 533, 543, 560, 563, 570, 591, 595, 597, 601, 608, 612, 617, 628, 653, 662, 664, 678, 693, 697, 703, 724, 734, 743, 747;
references to, 379, 394, 565, 594, 804.
—— Letter from, to Mrs. Gray, 750.
Cinchona officinalis, 551.
Claytonia Virginica, [14].
Clayville, [4].
Cleveland, Ohio, [71].
Clift, W., [112].
Climbing plants, 537, 539, 548, 549.
Clinton, Grammar School, [7], [8].
Clinton, G. W., 546.
Clive, Mrs. Archer, 376.
Clough, A. H., 394, 395, 396.
Cobbe, Miss F. P., 638.
Cogniaux, 669.
Cohn, 676.
Colenso, 491.
Coleridge, Lord, 748, 754.
Collectors, [272], [341].
See, also, Berlandier, Bolander, Buckley, Coulter, Crawe, Diell, Douglas, Drummond, Eschscholtz, Fendler, Frémont, Geyer, Goldie, Gregg, Hugel, Kneiskern, Lindheimer, Michaux, Nuttall, Palmer, Parry, Pringle, Pursh, Rugel, Sartwell, Thurber, Wislizenus, Wright.
College of Surgeons, [117].
Collinson, Peter, 370.
Commonwealth (Vegetable), 496.
Compass plant, 400, 401.
Compositæ, [26], [27].
Congdon, J. W., 682.
Congreve, R., 379.
Coniferæ, 674, 675.
Constable, J., [26].
Cooke, J. P., 527.
Cooper, Sir Astley, [113], [119].
Cooper, Bransby, [113].
Cooper, Elwood, Cal., 768.
Cope, 624.
Copyrights, 816.
Corda, A. C. J., [130], [221].
Corema, 775, 776.
Cosson, E., 611, 709, 713, 715.
Coulter’s collection, [328].
Coulter, T., 784, 785.
Cowles, 689.
Crewe, J. B., [18], [19], [32], [43].
Creighton, 789.
Cross Fertilization. See Fertilization.
Curtis, M. A., 652.
Cusick, W., 726.
“Cyperaceæ, North American Gramineæ and,” [19], [45], [46].
“Cyperaceæ of North America,” [60].
Cypress knees, 416, 421.
Cypresses of Chapultepec, 763.
Dale, T., [141].
Dalton, 808.
Dana, J. D., letters to, 424, 430, 521, 626, 785;
references to, [337], [338], 430, 459.
Dana, R. H., Sr., [296].
Darbya, 686, 687.
Darlington, William, 370, 423, 499, 500.
Darlingtonia, 648, 649.
Darwin, Charles, letters to, 456, 472, 484, 496, 501, 522, 536, 548, 553, 561, 599, 615, 623, 631, 645, 664, 668, 676;
references to, [117], 380, 447, 454, 455, 459, 463, 498, 509, 528, 550, 559, 565, 566, 594, 626, 642, 695, 714, 722, 732, 734, 751, 815.
—— Letter to Asa Gray, 557.
“Darwin, Charles, Life of,” by A. Gray, 646.
Darwin, Mrs., 800.
Darwin, George, 507, 759.
“Darwiniana,” 655, 656, 662.
Darwinism. See Evolution.
Daubeny, C., [332], 379.
Dawson, Sir William, 734, 740.
Death, 815.
De Bary, 807.
Decaisne, J., [23], [157], [161], [162], [168], [174], 381, 382, 611, 683, 687, 709, 712, 721, 733, 734.
De Candolle, Auguste Pyramus, [26], [47], [267], [281], [332], 374, 498;
bust of, 727.
De Candolle, Alphonse, letters to, [232], [276], 377, 380, 396, 409, 413, 419, 426, 451, 481, 497, 519, 526, 552, 566, 587, 592, 606, 624, 635, 639, 642, 669, 680, 684, 692, 694, 699, 702, 712, 714, 717, 727, 733, 783, 793;
references to, [26], [267], 375, 448, 702, 712, 718, 719, 720, 724, 746, 781, 785, 796.
De Candolle, Casimir, 451, 566, 719.
Degree, medical, [14].
Degrees at, Cambridge, England, 800;
Edinburgh, 806;
Oxford, 801.
Delessert, Benjamin, [24], [166], [169], [171].
Delessert, François, 382.
Delessert Herbarium, 720.
Delile, A. R., [24], [186], [187].
De Morgan, 759.
Derby, Lord, 805.
“Descent of Man,” Darwin, 615.
Desfontaines Herbarium, [23].
Desfontaines plants, [176].
Design in Nature, 485, 489, 498, 502, 508, 512, 638, 648, 656, 658, 659.
Detroit, [73].
Development Theory. See Evolution.
De Vriese, W. H., 376.
Dewey, Chester, [57].
Dextrorsum, 699.
Diamorpha pusilla, 652, 653.
Diell, [54], [58].
Dionœa, 556, 557, 561, 633, 642, 649.
Distribution of Plants. See Geographical Botany.
Dogs, 435, 436, 599, 676-678.
Don, David, [110], [137].
Douglas, David, [90], [92], [123], [279].
Douglass, Professor, [78].
Downing, Major Jack, [45].
Drake, Miss, [131].
Drosera rotundifolia, 510, 556, 557, 633, 641.
Drummond’s Louisiana plants, [173], [279].
Duby, J. E., [263].
Ducie, Lord, 713, 810.
Duff-Gordon, Lady, 582.
Dufferin, Lord, 737.
Dunal, M. F., [24], [187].
Durham University, [109].
Dyer, W. Thisleton, 734, 762.
Early Undertakings, [29-84].
Eaton, Amos, [14], [40].
Eaton, D. C., letters to, 438, 470;
receives Garber’s plants, 702.
Eaton’s Manual of Botany, [14], [40].
“Ecce Homo,” 543.
Edinburgh, visit to (1839), [97-105].
Education, [5-8].
Education, Botany, in liberal, [325].
Egypt, 572-586;
plants in, 575, 576;
medical practice in, 582.
Ehrenberg, C. G., [26], [269].
Eichler, A. W., 795.
“Elements of Botany,” [20], [27], [32], [54].
“Elements of Botany,” 1887, 792.
Eliot, S., [28].
Eliot, C. W., 526;
letters to, 620, 634.
Ellimia, [171].
Elwes, H. J., 810.
Embryo of Pinus, [151].
Emerson, G. B., [288], [292].
Emory, [356].
Endlicher, S. L., [25], [210], [215], 795.
Engelmann, G., letters to, [281], [291], [297], [305], [312], [340], [351], [355], [360], 373, 383, 391, 399, 404, 417, 446, 452, 465, 471, 493, 514, 530, 545, 551, 558, 589, 670, 680, 686, 696, 715, 725;
references to, [272], 663, 686, 729, 746, 753, 782.
—— Obituary notice, 753.
—— Herbarium, 753.
Engelmann, G., Jr., 772.
“Epistolæ Linneano-Jussieuanæ,” 410.
Erie Canal opening, [9].
Eriogoneæ, 600, 601.
Eschscholtz, [152].
“Essays and Reviews,” 464.
Europe, journeys to: First, [21], [85], [271];
second, 369-388;
third, 414-420;
fourth, 565-599;
fifth, 701-724;
sixth, 792-810.
European politics, 604, 606, 608.
Evolution, 424, 428, 430, 450, 455, 489, 497, 504, 508, 510, 528, 626, 637, 666, 695.
Evolution, Agassiz’s views of, in 1847, [345].
Exhibition, London, 1851, 379, 384.
Exploring Expedition, U. S., [21], [61], [64], [66], [359], [366], 376, 398, 409, 484, 623.
—— North Pacific, 435.
Fairchild, 666, 667.
Fairfield Academy, [8].
Fairfield Medical College, [12], [29].
Faraday, [114].
Farlow, W. G., 617, 625, 640, 762, 765, 766, 770.
Farnsworth, Chancellor, [78].
Farrar, Canon, 780.
Father of Asa Gray, [2], [4], [5], [334].
Felton, C. C., 479.
Fendler, A., [341], [343], [351], [355], [360], [361], 426, 447, 515, 531, 540, 650.
Fendlera, 391.
Fenzl, E., [25], [218], [222], 795.
Ferns, 402.
Fertilization, 425, 484, 485, 493, 505, 508, 509, 539, 664, 695.
Fink, 766.
First Book, [20], [32], [54].
First contribution to American Journal of Science, [19], [32].
“First Lessons in Botany,” 414, 418, 429, 444.
First Plant determined, [14].
Fischer, [74].
Fisher, G. P., 696.
Fisher Professorship, [27].
Flax spinning introduced, [5].
Flora, Beck’s, [39].
Flora of California, 636, 641, 643, 694.
Flora or Fauna, objects of, 657.
Flower, Sir W. H., 595, 722, 754.
Folwell, N. W., [35].
Forbes, H. O., 780.
Forbes, James, [99], [103], 413.
Forestry, [276].
Forster, E., [134], [139], [143].
Fouquiera, 400, 401, 419.
Fox, Miss, 755.
Franco-German War, 606, 608, 609, 612.
Fraser, J., [134], [135].
Fraser, Bishop, 560, 602.
Freeman, 725.
Fremantle, 806.
Frémont Expedition, [294], [297], [327].
Fresenius, J. B. G. W., 373.
Froude, 742.
Fry, Sir E., Letters to, 729, 738, 746, 754, 779, 789, 810.
Galileo, 743.
Garber’s Porto Rico Collection, 702.
Garwood, Rev. Mr., [123].
Gaudichaud, [24], [158], [162], 383.
Gaura Lindheimeri, [313].
Gay, Jacques, [24], [159], [171], 381, 383, 418.
“Genera Illustrata,” [340], [344], [347], [353], [355], [357], [361], [363].
Geographical Botany, [46], [276], 420, 424, 427, 434, 445, 447, 449, 775.
“Géographie Botanique,” De Candolle, A., 410, 419.
Geum triflorum, [46].
Geyer, C., [298].
Gilbert, J. H., 806.
Gilman, D. C., 695.
Gladstone, 444, 536, 563, 604, 736, 737, 743, 790, 804.
Gladstone, Miss, 804.
Glasgow, visit to (1839), [89-95].
Godet, C. H., 375, 592.
Goldie, J., 785.
Goodale, G. L., 635, 640, 728, 787.
Gould, A. A., 441.
Graham, Col., 390.
Graham, R., [22], [98], [100], [101], [105].
“Gramineæ and Cyperaceæ, North American,” [19], [45], [46].
Granville, Lord, 804.
Grasses, Hooker’s. [92].
Gray, Asa, Estimate of, by R. W. Church, 750.
Gray, J. E., [112], [114], 596.
Gray, J. L., [358].
Gray, Miss A. A., letter to, 710.
Gray, Mrs. Asa, letters to, [349], 659.
Gray, Moses, [2], [4], [5], [334];
letters to, [47], [49], [53], [61], [67], [83], [270], [313].
Gray, Mrs. (mother of Asa), letters to, [48], [84].
Gray, Family Reunion, 786.
Gray Herbarium, [287], 515, 519, 523, 525, 527, 529, 535, 816.
Grayia, [93], 629.
Gray’s Peak, 627, 632.
Greene, B. D., [17], [27], [283], [288].
Greene, Copley, [17].
Gregg, Josiah, [356].
Greville, R., [22], [98], [101], [105], [106], [132].
Grisebach, H. R. A., [224], 383, 516, 532, 540, 541, 550.
Grisebach’s manuscripts, 495.
Gronovian plants, [150].
Guillemin, [24].
Guiteau, Trial of, 730.
Guthrie, Rev. Dr., [102].
Guyot, A., 459, 463.
Hadley, J., Prof., [10], [12], [15], [18], [41], [42].
Hadley, Prof. J., Junior, [13].
Haenke’s plants, 795.
Hakim-Pacha, 583.
Hamilton College, [10], [18], [42], [45].
Hanbury, 570, 571.
Harcourt, Colonel, 803.
Harkness, Dr., 769.
Harris, T. W., 398, 420.
Hartweg, T., [150].
Harvard Botanic Garden, [285], [290], [291], [299];
House, [314], [327].
Harvard College, appointment, [27].
Harvard College, called to, [283-286].
Harvard College, quarter-millennial, 789.
Harvey, W. H., [363], 376, 547.
Hauer, 795.
Haughton, Prof., 736.
Hayden, Dr., 669, 710.
Heer, O., 508, 521, 528.
Helianthus tuberosus, 398.