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about the process of impregnation and the early de- 

 velopment of embryo, which I am accumulating, as 

 much as I can, for future use. Pray tell Dr. Perrine 

 that the gardeners and botanists here insist by accla- 

 mation almost that there is no such thing as acclima- 

 tion in the vegetable kingdom. 



What a pickle the Linnsean Ascyrum is in ! I wish 

 I had room to teU you. 



TO MES. TOERBY. 

 Tuesday morning, two o'clock A. M., Maroli 14, 1839. 



I have just finished packing up, being about to start 

 for Boulogne in steamboat at nine o'clock this morning, 

 and I must now hastily close my letters. This, or 

 rather yesterday, has been a busy day with me. I 

 started in the morning to have a look at a few more 

 things of Pursh's at Lambert's, but he kept me longer 

 than I liked. He found somewhere a small parcel of 

 plants collected by Eschscholz_ irul^otzebue's voyage, 

 who sent them to Lamb^^ Lamberft gave me all the 

 North American ones, ^g^ ^q \,q sure, qiut interesting. 

 From Lambert's I /•^turned by way of the Horticul- 

 tural Soeietv, to biwi good-by to Lindley and Bentham, 

 4»»+ iie latter insi^,^g ^pon con^i^g up in the morning 

 to my lodgings to i ^gg ^q Jif . I have made a fortu- 

 nate acquisition io\ ^ j^jjjj He told me he saw, a few 

 days ago, at an auc^ (.^^p some copies of Eichard's fine 

 work on the^Conifef j-d, but an engagement at the time 

 prevented him from staying to buy a copy of the work 

 for himself j whiyh he imagined would be sold cheap. 

 Mr. Putnam foind Out who bought up these copies, 

 and obtained oi;ie at nl^arly the price at which they were 

 sold. I sha^l have the pleasure of presenting it to 

 Bentham this morning when he caUs. I went to the 



