THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 267 
I hope, my dear Sir, that you will soon be able to look over: 
your collection for the purpose of selecting for me, according 
to your kind offer. When your list of duplicates arrives I shall 
immediately forward you a list of the species which are still 
desiderata with me— 
You doubtless received the parcels from Dr. Martius in good 
time. I hope you found something in them worth your acceptance. 
—The books, of course are valuable—But the plants, from the 
hasty glance which I took of them, seemed to be rather indifferent. 
You are right respecting the cause of the expense of transporta- 
tion in Germany—Mr. Cuthbert, the American Consul at Ham- 
burgh, informed me in a letter that the box was subjected to 
numerous detentions at the various quarantines established for 
the Cholera. You need not trouble yourself about the charges 
on your portion of the box, for they only amount to about $2.50, 
which is less than you must have paid on some of the parcels 
transmitted to me— 
I have looked over Drummond’s Arctic Mosses since I wrote 
last, & my impression is that the Splachnum of Quaker Bridge is 
- quite distinct from the S. angustatum. It will probably turn out 
to be a new spec. We have all neglected botany this winter in 
New York. but as the spring will be here tomorrow I hope we shall 
have our feelings enlivened, & resume the study of plants with 
renewed zeal. 
The address of Capt. Le Conte at present I cannot give you 
without some doubt.. It is probable that he is residing with his 
brother Lewis LeC. in Riceborough, Liberty County, Georgia. A 
letter sent there, intrusted to his brother’s care will no doubt 
reach him soon. 
If you will send your parcels for England, to New York, & 
direct them to Mr. Bininger’s Store, I will have them forwarded to 
London by the next packet. If the Capts. are waited on person- 
ally, they will take charge of small bundles. We have a young 
merchant in our family who cheerfully does all such business for me. 
By the next private opportunity I hope to write you more 
at large. Your obliged & faithful friend 
JOHN TORREY 
