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plants are sent home to Baird and by him forwarded 
to me. Wretched specimens, and nothing new 
among them! .. . 
Captains at sea are very apt to get a little crusty, 
which should be minded just as little as possible. I 
expect to hear that, after getting well settled and at 
home in the Vincennes, you find yourself comfortable 
and all pleasant. Gentlemanly conduct and devotion 
to one’s pursuits will at length make one respected, 
anywhere. 
When you return, I trust you will yourself prepare 
the botanical report of your eruise. I hope so, for 
your own sake, both scientifically and because your 
doing so will keep you on pay some years longer on 
shore. I will aid you, if I live, most willingly over 
knotty points, ete.; perhaps would like to do certain 
families further than that; not, if you will take hold 
of it yourself, as you ought to do. 
I suppose you will have found nothing new at the 
Cape, though the vegetation there must have been 
novel to you. It will be pleasant, in the long cruises, 
to study yourself the plants collected at the last port. 
Did you get any nice Alge? Look out for them 
hereafter. 
When you are on surveying-ground, you may prob- 
ably be transferred back to the steamer again. 
Presently your letters will be coming to me via 
California. “I hope to continue to hear such good 
accounts of your health and activity. Do not measure 
my interest in your letters by the number I myself 
write, though I mean to write oftener in future. No 
news here, scientific or other. Mr. Carey, you know, 
has gone back to England to live, and has married a 
young wife there, moreover. 
