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be done and such ample means. Arnott has written, 

 inviting me to spend some time with him, which I 

 hope to do, visiting him from Edinburgh, there being 

 now no coach to Stirling or Kinross, from Glasgow 

 direct. ... Sir William has given me many interest- 

 ing plants ; we have settled many points of interest. 

 He had our new Nuttallia all figured for the Supple- 

 ment to " Flora Borealis Americana" as a new genus, 

 and we have recently found it among plants from the 

 Snake country, which, with Douglas's and other Cali- 

 fornian plants, he is publishing as a supplement to 

 " Beechey's Voyage." I begged him to adopt the 

 name Nuttallia. He offered at once to publish it as of 

 Torrey and Gray, but I would not consent to this, and 

 I am sure you would agree with me. He has in dif- 

 ferent ways a great share of Nuttall's so far, — Pick- 

 eringia for instance (which is. a shrubby Baptisia), 

 Kentrophyta, etc. I shall be kept here ten days 

 longer, I think ; no one else abroad is so rich in North 

 American botany or takes so much interest in it. I 

 am requested to study all his Sandwich Island plants 

 (including my own parcel here), and make an article 

 for the " Annals of Natural History " while here. I 

 think I will, if on looking over the parcels I think I 

 can do the subject justice. Can't Knieskern ^ safely 

 make the excursion to Sante Fe in the coming spring ? 

 If he can, and will work hard, he wiU make f 1000 

 clear of expenses ! All the collectors make money. 

 Hooker is very anxious about it. I hope to find the 



1 Peter D. Knieskern, M. D., 1798-1871. " Botanized over the 

 pine-barrens of New Jersey "with utmost assiduity and skill, a simple- 

 hearted, unpretendingly g-ood and faithful man. , , . Few botanists 

 have excelled him in their knowledge of the plants of the region in 

 which he resided, and none in zeal, simplicity, and love of science for 

 its own sake." — A. G. 



