ET. 29.] TO W. J. HOOKER. 2TT 
instructions. The “ Reports” are not on sale, and the 
earlier numbers are not to be obtained except by some 
lucky chance. . 
The 3d and 4th atts of our “ Flora,” of which you 
speak so favorably, were sent to you through Baron 
Delessert, as I have already apprised you. By the 
time this work is completed we shall have settled 
somewhat accurately the geographical range of our 
plants, and have laid a good foundation for the com- 
parison of our flora with that of other regions, etc. 
We shall soon begin to print the “ Composite,’”’ and 
I trust in early spring we may see the second volume 
nearly or quite completed. Pray send me sometimes 
loose sheets of your articles or notices (those of your 
father and yourself) in the “ Bibliothéque Univer- 
selle.” I will sometimes translate them, if you do not 
object, or otherwise notice them, for the ‘“ American 
Journal of Science and Arts.” 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
New Yors, 15th January, 1841. 
The dedication of the “ Flora” we felt to be both 
a privilege and a duty; its favorable reception on your 
part gives us real pleasure. 
I hope I have not offended Link by overstating his 
age. Iam pretty sure I was so informed by Klotzsch 
who ought to know. You will now and then see some 
little articles or notices of mine in “ Silliman’s Jour- 
nal.” I prepare these notices merely to awaken and 
deepen the interest of our scattered botanists and 
lovers of plants, most of whom see that journal, and 
few of whom have any other means of knowing what 
is going on in the botanical world. We have, how- 
ever, a few promising fellows who take the “Journal 
