278 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1841, 
of Botany” or something of the kind. Should I 
have anything to communicate of interest to any other 
than our local botanists, I shall publish of course un- 
der my own name. You will receive with this a little 
notice of some European herbaria, which, common- 
place as it must be on your side of the water, is useful 
to our own people. I have been as brief as I could, 
and have taken the pains to drop the first person sin- 
gular. I am not sure but I have already sent you a 
copy through Mr. Pamphlin. Poor Rafinesque,! you 
know, perhaps, is dead; and I have attempted the 
somewhat ungracious task of giving some account of 
his botanical writings, which I will send you when 
printed. 
I find that Townsend, Nuttall’s companion, pub- 
lished, while I was abroad, an account of their jour- 
ney. I have never seen a copy, and am told it is out 
of print; but I must try to find a copy for you. 
Townsend being poor, Nuttall waived his intention of 
publishing in his favor. I have heard that Townsend 
wishes to make a journey as collector of birds, plants, 
ete. I wish he would go to the southern Rocky 
Mountains, and trace them into New Spain. Nuttall 
has brought home the Grayia. Have you ever received 
any more of Nuttall’s plants, or has Boott? He is 
selling them to different persons for ten dollars per ° 
hundred ; just such specimens as you received through 
Boott, or sometimes much better and more copious ones. 
I have some of his Composite in my hands, which Webb 
has ordered. He has a considerable number of Oregon 
1 S. Constantine Rafinesque-Schmaltz, d. 1840. A Sicilian by birth. 
First arrived in the United States, 1802, for three years; returned 
in 1815, and explored ve Alleghanies and Southern States. “ An 
orem Page certainly gifted personage, connected with the natural 
history of this country i the last thirty-five years ’’ [A.G.]. 
