298 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1843, 
one else, will go through the Rocky Mountains to 
Oregon; and parties of emigrants or explorers will 
go also. Now why not send “Lindeinas in some o 
these? Probably the government party would afford 
him protection, and probably he might be formally 
attached to the party. Frémont will not take Geyer; 1 
but I believe he wants some one. The interesting 
region (the most so in the world) is the high Rocky 
Mountains about the sources of the Platte, and thence 
south. I will warrant ten dollars per hundred for 
every decent specimen. If he collects in Texas, eight 
dollars per hundred is enough. I write in haste, hop- 
ing this plan may strike you favorably and be found 
practicable. Let me know at once. The opportunity 
should not be lost. Do send Lindheimer to the Rocky 
Mountains if possible. 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
CAMBRIDGE, February 28, 1843. 
I found your most welcome letter on my return from 
New York a few weeks since, and have since sent it to 
Dr. Torrey, who was equally delighted with myself at 
the opportunity of hearing from you. 
Our term opens to-day, and Iam just on the womele 
of commencing my course of botanical lectures, which is 
rather formidable to a beginner. So you will excuse 
my hasty letter. I would not miss to-morrow’s steamer, 
as I wish to say that your offer to furnish our Garden — 
the great object of my care — with hardy plants from 
your rich stores at Kew delights me much. I have 
? Carl Geyer, 1809-1853 ; a German botanist who explored the basin 
of the upper Mississippi with Nicollet under the Bureau of opo- 
Afterw 
graphical Engineers, 1836-1940. ards crossed the Rocky 
Mountains to Oregon. 
