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engraving, now in the hands of the artist, will be 
transmitted to you by the earliest opportunity. I 
also send a little parcel of mosses, nearly all of which 
were collected in the interior of the State of New 
York. May I ask you to look them over at as early 
an opportunity as may suit your convenience, and to 
return to me the result of your determinations. I 
do not venture to think that you will find among them 
anything of especial interest. I very much regret 
that I am at the present moment unable to forward 
to you a half a dozen copies of the work of “ Gra- 
minez and Cyperacez,” the number you so kindly 
offer to take charge of. A few species are wanting to 
complete further suits of the first volume, but these 
I hope soon to obtain. Not to permit your kind offer 
to pass wholly unimproved, I hereby transmit to you 
three copies of vols. 1 and 2 which are at the disposal 
of any of your botanical friends who may desire to 
possess the work. If an additional number of copies 
should be needed they can in a very short time be 
furnished. With high respect, I remain, dear sir, 
ours truly, . Gray. 
To WiturAm Jackson Hooker 
Regius Professor of Botany? in the Dekvsenity at Glasgow. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
Savevoit, N. Y., July 9, 1835. 
I am progressing a little with my rather formidable 
task; in fact I am making haste quite slowly, and 
am now discussing the mysteries of exogenous and 
endogenous stems. I have studied little this week, 
for I found that close confinement was spoiling my 
health, so I have been taking quite severe exercise 
almost constantly, by which I am considerably im- 
