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hands & have since received assurances that it would be published 
so as to appear at the end of the year. If it is so finally deter- 
mined, I shall be glad as I would prefer its being published in 
_America. Upon the expressed wish of Mr. Halsey I have yesterday 
forwarded to him, my scrawl from which the Synopsis is com- 
posed—in three bound manuscript books. I am thus deprived 
of the means of correctly answering your request of giving you a 
list of the N. Am. Genera with the number of species—& beg to 
refer you to Mr. Halsey—who will I trust let you have the perusal 
of my books (written carelessly indeed both as to latinity & 
handwriting) & thus enable you to extract them yourself. In 
my work for publication I have made some few alterations in the 
arrangement & adopted some new genera established by Fries in his 
recent publication on the whole vegetable kingdom[24]—which I 
am very sorry I did not send on—as it would be highly interesting 
to you. The number of species however is almost entirely the 
same—except that I have here & there omitted a few, which did 
not appear sufficiently ascertained. Nothing will be more eagerly 
expected by me than the book you are publishing on the natural 
orders.—As regards the Fungi—the perfection of the System is 
really admirable & I do most sincerely regret not having sent on 
to.you Fries’ work [24] which comprises not them alone, but the 
whole of the Cryptogamia. No opportunity will offer before my 
journey; otherwise you should still receive it. Tho’ you say that 
you have little of bot[anical] hews to communicate I was unusually 
gratified by what you do impart. Can there be a more pleasing 
piece of news than that you have resumed the publication of the 
2d Volume of your Flora [89]? On my return from the west- 
ward, if it be not too late, I should like to send you for inspection 
everything that my Herb. contains, that would be of use in making 
it complete. Let me know if you would wish it. The hopes 
you hold out concerning Dr. Gates—are gratifying. I hold three 
shares in the association. LeConte & yourself are appointed to 
act for me. A German adventurer took me in last fall upon a 
similar plan. His name is Voltz—but I have not heard a word 
from him. The proposals of Dr. Drummond are indeed of a differ- 
ent kind & so tempting, that notwithstanding impoverished cir- 
cumstances I cannot help requesting you to secure for me the 
