I will not mention what you have told me to any one, as it would be Murchisonian.

But what a shame it is to use this expression, for I fully believe that Murchison would take any trouble to get any token of honour for any man of science.
I like all scientific periodicals, including poor "Scientific Opinion," and I think higher than you do of "Nature." Lord, what a rhapsody that was of Goethe, but how well translated; it seemed to me, as I told Huxley, as if written by the maddest English scholar.

It is poetry, and can I say anything more severe?
The last number of the "Academy" was splendid, and I hope it will soon come out fortnightly.

I wish "Nature" would search more carefully all foreign journals and transactions.
I am now reading a German thick pamphlet (233/1.

"Die Abhangigheit der Pflanzengestalt von Klima und Boden.