Also many thanks for your valuable remarks on the affinities of the species in great genera, which will be of much use to me in my chapter on classification.

Your opinion is what I had expected from what little I knew, but I much wanted it confirmed, and many of your remarks were more or less new to me and all of value.
You give a poor picture of the philosophy of Botany.

From my ignorance, I suppose, I can hardly persuade myself that things are quite as bad as you make them,--you might have been writing remarks on Ornithology! I shall meditate much on your remarks, which will also come in very useful when I write and consider my tables of big and small genera.

I grieve for myself to say that Watson agrees with your view, but with much doubt.

I gave him no guide what your opinion was.