422 CORRESPONDENCE. [1856, 
I wait for an opportunity. Lady Hooker will be 
interested in it. Our united warm regards to her. 
Thanks to the Duke for anything to facilitate trans- 
mission of printed matter. But it is still high; for 
example, your “Journal,” which I get by post, costs 
6d. each number, paid in London, and about 1d. more 
paid here. There is still room for improvement. I 
dare not send you “ Silliman’s Journal” yet by post. 
June 30, 1856. 
Charles Wright, who was in the North Pacific 
Expedition under Ringgold and Rogers, has left his 
ship at California instead of making the voyage round 
Cape Horn, and crossed over the Nicaragua route, in- 
tending to botanize there some months. Finding him- 
self there among our vile filibustering people, and all 
in confusion, however, he was soon obliged to come on 
home. He is awaiting the arrival of his ship, and 
will not till this autumn be able to touch his Pacific 
collections, of which the best and principal were made 
in Hongkong, Bonin, and the Loo Choo Islands and 
Japan. That they are not larger is not his fault. 
Wright has a perfect passion for collecting plants ; 
and already begins to plan other explorations. To 
satisfy his cravings for a while, I have proposed to 
him to go to St. Iago de Cuba, and explore that end 
of the island. What do you think of it? Has any 
botanist collected there? Would it be too like 
Jamaica to offer much novelty? But to return. In 
Nicaragua, Wright collected a goodly quantity of 
seeds, one set of which he wishes me to send to ss 
a present to Kew Gardens, as I understand it. . . 
By the way, it was most lucky that I hurried up 
and had sent on to you the copy of Brackenridge’s 
