294 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [1842, 
I wish we had a collector to go with Frémont. It 
is a great chance. If none are to be had, Lieutenant 
F. must be indoctrinated, and taught to collect both 
dried specimens and seeds. Tell him he shall be in- 
mortalized by having the 999th Senecio called S. 
Fremontii; that’s poz., for he has at least two new 
ones. . . 
I have ii privilege of expending one hundred dol- 
lars in botanical illustrations, — to be the property of 
the college and to be increased from time to time. 
How do you advise me to proceed in the matter ? 
Though greatly behindhand, I must get Compositze 
all done this month. Then if you could have the Lo- 
belias and Campanulas ready, I think we could print 
the latter part of January, and I get everything off 
my mind and ready for teaching Ist of March. .. . 
This letter you see has no beginning, as I have 
scribbled down memoranda for a day or two past, as 
they occurred tome. Iam deep among Thistles, which 
are thorny (though I see that they are satisfactionable, 
all but one little group of two or three species), and 
have been considerably interrupted, or I should have 
written you sooner. 
TO MRS. TORREY. 
CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday evening, December 14, 1842. 
It is some time since I have written to Princeton, 
and longer since I have heard from any of you; for I 
believe you are every one in my debt. This, however, 
has not restrained me from writing, and I have only 
waited until a proposition very unexpectedly made me 
a few days ago should be disposed of. I have been 
invited to lecture before the Lowell Institute next 
year, and have had the hardihood to accept! A cele- 
