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ent as Dr. Hooker. I hope to send you a parcel by 

 the first opportunity that occurs of sending direct to 

 Glasgow ; when I will put up specimens of the mosses 

 you desire, and will send a copy of the " Gramineae 

 and Cyperaceae " for the gentleman at Paris who 

 wishes it. 



It is so troublesome and expensive to get them 

 bound that I should much prefer, if any of your 

 friends and correspondents should desire them, to send 

 the specimens with labels and loose title-pages, at $4 

 per volume, each comprising, as you are aware, one 

 hundred species. I may in that way furnish larger and 

 often more perfect or more numerous specimens than 

 in the bound copies. I hope to publish the third 

 (and perhaps also the fourth) volume early next 

 autumn. 



Allow me to express my thanks for your kind assist- 

 ance in various ways, and to say that I shall hereafter 

 (D. V.) prosecute the study of our lovely science with 

 increased zeal. I remain, with sentiments of the high- 

 est esteem, 



Your much obliged friend, ASA GRAY. 



October 10, 1836. 



I also beg your acceptance of a copy of a little ele- 

 mentary botanical work published last spring. I do 

 not expect it to possess any particular interest in your 

 eyes; but in this country, unfortunately, no popular 

 and at the same time scientific elementary treatise 

 has been generally accessible to botanical students, 

 and such a work was so greatly needed that I felt 

 constrained to make the attempt, since no better- 

 qualified person could be induced to undertake the 

 labor. 



