248 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
spec™’. of plants, in different parts of Alabama, & that we may 
expect part of them very soon. He promises also to collect all 
in his power, during the present season,—so that we may yet 
get something for our $650. 
After so much about unsuccessful collectors you will not per- 
haps wish to hear of a new proposition—but I will venture to 
mention it to you. Mr. Drummond, the celebrated collector & 
muscologist, who accompanied Franklin & Richardson on their 
2nd Exped", has just arrived here from Scotland, bringing me 
letters from Drs. Hooker & Greville. Mr. D. is about proceeding 
on a journey to the West of the Mississippi for the express purpose 
of collecting specimens in all the branches of Natl. History for 
sale to any who chose to purchase them. He expects to spend 
several years in this country, & to explore all those parts which 
have hitherto been little or not at all examined. Many gentle- 
men in England & Scotland have engaged to take full sets of all 
that he collects & Dr. Hooker has fixed the price for the plants— 
which tho’ rather high is not extravagant for rare new ones— & 
viz. £2 per hundred. He will allow American botanists to make 
selections of such plants as they need. You may calculate to 
what an extent Mr. D. expects to collect, when he has sent out 
to New Orleans, two tons of paper. Mr. D. asks nothing in ad- 
vance but he would like to form some estimate what number 
of specimens would probably be taken in America.—He will leave 
here in a few days & [if] you would like to engage two or three 
hundred specimens please let me know. Dr. Hooker has kindly 
sent me a set of Mr. Drummond’s mosses, collected in Franklin's 
2nd journey—about 280 species—many quite interesting.|*] 
Have you seen Hooker’s Flora Boreali Americana [34]? Sev- 
eral copies of No. 1. are in our shops. The work is dreadfully ex- 
pensive—4to. 20 plates each No. for $6.50—There will be 12 nos. 
It is beautiful. Ihaveacopy. Carey & Lea ask $7.50 per No. 
I am printing an American ed" of Lindley’s new work on the 
“Natural System of Botany” [46] & will give an appendix con- 
taining the North Am. genera with the no. of species as far as now 
known, arranged according to the improved nat. orders. & now 
my dear Sir, I will ask a favour of you—which is a list of N. Amer- 
* [See footnote, p. 245.] 
