THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 231 
I have much to say on Caricog.—but I am in haste—my time is 
much occupied with the duties of my professorship.—You will be 
delighted to hear that C. pauciflora has been found in Massachu- 
setts—as well as to see the good things that Richardson found in 
the Arctic Region [64]. I have many of these last, & expect daily 
some more northern species from Hooker. Prof. Dewey continues 
to publish descriptions of Carices, in Silliman’s Journal [19], & 
appears to have extended his original plan so as to embrace all the 
species of N. Am. I told him he was interfering with us, but he 
does not think so.—We must not quarrel with him, for he is an 
excellent man— 
I have your Carices in good order & will endeavour to send 
them to New York this week, that they may be transmitted to you 
without delay. My collection is now very extensive, & the speci- 
mens are very perfect. There will be figures of 10 Sp. to accom- 
pany the Monog. in the Annals—They will be engraved by one of 
our best artists.— . 
I shall write more soon 
Yours in great haste 
JoHN TORREY 
Rev L. D. ScHWEINITZ 
fz SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHL. Nov 21st 1826 
My dear Sir 
Altho’ a correspondence to me so extremely valuable & de- 
lightful as that which I enjoy with you, has been interrupted 
by circumstances beyond my control for a very long time—I 
flatter myself that there can be no other obstacle to its renewal 
with you, than that which caused its interruption on my part— 
viz. such a press of duties imperiously claiming the first attention— 
as deprived me of the necessary leisure. Not indeed, that I could 
not have found a moment for inditing a few friendly lines—but 
really, I have been so unremittingly occupied since my return from 
Europe, that I have till within a few weeks been almost totally 
unable to attend to my favorite scientific pursuit—from which it 
was necessary to draw funds, in order to give any kind of value to 
letters, which would otherwise have been bsolute intrusion upon 
