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406 CORRESPONDENCE. (1854, 
Nor is it easy to reflect and remember what I have 
been doing, so as to tell you. 
I forgot to tell you, too, that Thurber! called on 
me and offered his plants collected under Bartlett. 
I have written out the greater part up to the end of 
Composite, my old sticking-place, a number of new 
things, mostly from deeper down in Sonora than you 
went, and in southwest California. Beyond doubt 
Torrey will work up a part. I shall merely furnish 
characters and botanical remarks to Thurber, and let 
him do all the rest of the talk. Bartlett is still in 
hopes that the Senate will print a great report for 
him. I greatly doubt if they do. If so, Thurber’s 
botany will go as an appendix. If not, he will make 
a memoir of the things up to Composite, and the 
striking things beyond, and afterwards I may lick up 
the rest in the general continuation of “ Plante 
Wrightiane,” ete. 
Meanwhile the United States minister at Mexico 
has been making a treaty, now before our Senate, for 
buying a further slice of Chihuahua and Sonora, to 
take in Lake Guzman and the Sonora country some 
way south of where you went, that is, below San Pe- 
dro. So there will have to be a new survey if this 
treaty is ratified, and a chance of more botany. I 
wish you were to be here to attend to it; only you 
have already taken off the cream of that country, and 
can now do more, and find more novelty, in some of 
the countries you are going to 
From Governor Stevens’s party, from Minnesota to 
Washington Territory, north of Oregon, bundles of 
1 George Thurber, 1821-1890; born in Providence ; botanist to the 
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey Commission; then in 
the Assay Office in New York; ee editor of the American Agri- 
culturist ; a student of grasses. 
