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May 30. 



Have done something at the " Flora ; " shall do much 

 work this season after July 4th, when college duties 

 are over. Drawings for " Genera" are getting on well. 



One word now on another point. We must have a 

 collector for plants living and dry to go to Santa F, 

 with the Government Expedition. If I were not so 

 tied up, I would go myself. Have you not some good 

 fellow you can send ? We could probably get him 

 attached somehow so as to have the protection of the 

 army, and if need be I could raise here two hundred 

 dollars as an outfit. He could make it worth the 

 while. He could collect sixty sets of five hundred 

 plants (besides seeds and Cacti) very soon, which, 

 named by us, would go off at once at ten dollars per 

 hundred. Somebody must go into this unexplored 

 field ! Let me know if you think anything can be 

 done, and I will set to work. The great thing is a 

 proper man. 



July 15. 



I duly received your favor of June 25th ; am de- 

 lighted that you found a man to send to Santa Fe. I 

 approve your mode of carrying out the plan, and will 

 not be slow to aid in it. I wrote at once to Sullivant, 

 telling him to forward fifty dollars for Fendler, l to 

 take his pay in Mosses and Hepaticse, and to give in- 

 structions about collecting these, his great favorites. 

 Before this reaches you, I am sure you will hear from 

 him. He is a capital fellow, and Fendler must be 

 taught to collect Mosses for him. 



1 Augustus Fendler, 1813-1883. Came from Prussia to America 

 in 1840. Collected in New Mexico, and on the Andes about Tovar in 

 Venezuela, and in Trinidad. " A close, accurate observer, a capital col- 

 lector and specimen-maker ; his distributed specimens are classical. Of 

 a scientific turn of mind in other lines than botany " [A. G.]. 



