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(who has devoted a life of labor to this end) will 
actually do, 
As something must be done at once, I have pro- 
posed to Osken to make myself the necessary con- 
spectuses of orders, analyses, ete.; to join the pro- 
posed thing on, or to dove-tail it into, the “ Text- 
Book; ” pee" also to furnish the generic characters, 
and he is to write the specifie characters and all that 
for New England plants. I give him as limit 250 
pages jitoviee type, 12mo (say °300), and insist upon 
having the greater part of the copy on the 1st March, 
and that it shall be published on the 1st April. That 
I may cover the ground of Wood, and introduce it 
into New York, I propose, if you think it right and 
proper, to add the characters of the (about 150) New 
York plants not found in New England, distinguish- 
ing that by a f. 
Oakes promises to do it. But our understanding is 
explicit that if he cannot get through with it in time, 
he is soon to let me know, and to furnish me with 
New England matters, when I am to do, not exactly 
this, but a more compendious manual of the botany 
of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Penn- 
sylvania, that is, the Northern States proper. It will 
be imperfect and hasty, but it will prevent Wood 
from fixing himself so that he cannot be driven out. 
I propose to have a sufficient number of copies of 
this (in whatever form it may appear) bound up with 
the “ Botanical Text-Book ” to meet the demands of 
the one-book system in New England and New York, 
and to afford it at a price seduced to a minimum, so 
that nothing is to be made out of it, at least out of 
the first dition. 
How does this all strike you? I am convineed that 
