£1. 36.] TO JOHN TORREY. 347 
perhaps I ean find a corner for it), Ohio, Indiana or 
not as the case may be, leave out Illinois, which has 
too many Mississippi plants, take in Michigan and 
Wisconsin, at least Lapham’s! plants near the Lakes. 
That makes a very homogeneous florula. 
I have made as usual much less progress than I 
supposed; so now, pressed at the same time with col- 
lege duties, I have to work very hard indeed. Carey 
is coming on to help me. . . . Sheet full. 
July 20, 1847. 
Did you not know that an application has come 
from Wilkes through Pickering? to Sprague to make 
some botanical drawings for the Exploring Expedi- 
tion, which, as I supposed they were to be for your 
use, I persuaded Sprague to promise to undertake, at 
ten dollars for each folio drawing with the dissections 
ull. . . . The price we fixed is as low as Sprague 
ean do them for, to any advantage, even if he had 
nothing else to do. The price I fixed for the draw- 
ings of “Genera,” and which I thought very large, 
(86 per plate) does not thus far pay Sprague day 
wages, he takes so much time and care with them. I 
can only hope that the experience and facility he is 
getting will enable him to knock them off faster here- 
after. You see therefore that Sprague cannot afford 
to make the drawings for Emory at the price he made 
those for Frémont — two dollars apiece. He will do 
them better ; having now such skill in dissections he 
1 Increase Allen Lapham, 1811-1875; author of a Catalogue of 
Plants in the Vicinity of Milwaukee. 
2 Charles Pickering, 1805-1878. ‘‘ Author of Geographical Distri- 
bution of Plants and Animals and Man's Record of his own Existence, 
ely a record of changes in the habitat of plants. A monument o 
wonderful industry ’’ [A. G.]. 
