250 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
the Synopsis of the American Fungi [76], containing descriptions 
of about 1500 new species & remarks upon the whole number of 
3000 Am. species as yet observed by me. That I did not forget 
you, my dear Sir, I hope to be able to prove to you—for among 
the rest I put by for you upwards of 200 species of very beautiful 
specimens of Surinam plants[*] with such determinations as I have 
been able to make out—& the box now stands ready to be for- 
warded to you by the first opportunity that occurs, as I requested 
Mr. Halsey to inform you, when about a month ago I had the 
pleasure of receiving a letter from him, the first voice from any 
botanical friend after my indisposition. I trust that you will 
now excuse my apparent neglect. My health is not yet by any 
means reestablished on a sound basis—accordingly about the 
middle of this month I shall commence by the advice of doctors 
a long journey & have chosen the westerly direction, proposing 
to go as far as the state of Indiana It is by no means improbable 
that I shall return by way of Lake Erie & in that case hope to 
have the pleasure of seeing you some time in July. I have pre- 
pared myself if my strength admits to botanize on this journey 
with as much zeal as possible. Having now given you some idea 
of the last lost year—& the candid assurance that your kind 
letter proved to me a most encouraging omen that my hopes of 
being fully reinstated among the rest in my botanical enjoyments, 
permit me both to answer it & to mention some other matters. 
In the first place concerning my Synopsis [76]. It was my in- 
tention to forward it imediately for publication to France or 
Germany (tho’ somewhat appalled under present circumstances by 
the well known adage Inter arma silent litterae!) But during my 
last visit to Philadelphia a fortnight ago (where by the by I again 
missed seeing you as I had been led to hope by Dr. Pickering) | 
was so urgently requested to submit the work to the Philosophical 
Society, to be published as their next volume, DE I left it in thei 
e seems to be no record of the source of the Surinam leh ree by 
Schweinitz i in his herbarium and distributed by him to correspondents. There is 
no doubt that they were sent from Surinam by Dr. Constantin Hering (1800-1 880), 
by (Christoph Weigelt, who was associated with Hering in the exploration © 
Surinam, and who died there in 1828.—J. H. B.] 
