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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 223 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
: WEST Point, Jany 7th, 1825. 
My dear Sir, 
Your letter of the 5 ult. came safely to hand after being a full 
week on the road. I hope you have by this time received the let- 
ter from Professor Hooker, together withthe package of books from 
the same gentleman. A few weeks since a friend received for me 
at the Custom House in New York, a package from Mr. (now 
Dr.) Greville, which inclosed one for you. The latter I directed 
to'be left at the house of Mr. Mortimer, & I expect it has before 
this time been safely received. Also the 3rd No. of my Flora [89], 
which I sent you long since. 
The pleasure I hope to receive by a visit from you in the spring, 
will be mingled with regret that I shall immediately after be de- 
prived for a season of your most delightful correspondence. Do, 
my dear Sir, make your stay in Europe as short as possible.— 
But above all, leave not our country without letting me see your 
face. If it is not convenient for you to visit West Point, I shall 
certainly see you in New York. Perhaps you will lose little in 
Botany by your absence from America, for you will enjoy very 
great opportunities to collect specimens of plants abroad. You 
must remember your friends & never neglect an opportunity of 
collecting a duplicate for me! Probably I shall trouble you 
with a commision or two—particularly with a package for the 
illustrious De Candolle—for you surely cannot think of visiting 
Europe without making a journey to Geneva. 
My principal object in writing to you at this time, is to beg you 
will give the Lyceum your last determinations of ,the Carices. We 
have completed the rst part of the 1st vol. of our Annals, & intend 
taking up the greater part of the two or three next Numbers with 
your Historia [71]. You know that several new species have 
been discovered by Dewey, & that in the last number of Silliman’s 
Journal the gentleman has written largely on them [rọ]. In 
the number now due, he will have another long paper.—All these 
will, I suppose, make a few alterations necessary in your Mss. 
Besides we beg you will make a list of those species which you think 
should be figured. Several species may be put upon a single plate, 
