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instructions. The "Eeports" are not on sale, and the 

 earlier numbers are not to be obtained except by some 

 lucky chance. . . . 



The 3d and 4th parts of our " Flora," of which you 

 speak so favorably, were sent to you through Baron 

 Delessert, as I have already apprised you. By the 

 time this work is completed we shall have settled 

 somewhat accurately the geographical range of our 

 plants, and have laid a good foundation for the com- 

 parison of our flora with that of other regions, etc. 

 We shall soon begin to print the " Compositse," and 

 I trust in early spring we may see the second volume 

 nearly or quite completed. Pray send me sometimes 

 loose sheets of your articles or notices (those of your 

 father and yourself) in the " Biblioth^que Univer- 

 selle." I will sometimes translate them, if you do not 

 object, or otherwise notice them, for the " American 

 Journal of Science and Arts." 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



New Yokk, 15tli January, 1841. 



The dedication of the " Flora " we felt to be both 

 a privilege and a duty ; its favorable reception on your 

 part gives us real pleasure. 



I hope I have not offended Link by overstating his 

 age. I am pretty sure I was so informed by Klotzsch 

 who ought to know. You wiU now and then see some 

 little articles or notices of mine in " Silliman's Jour- 

 nal." I prepare these notices merely to awaken and 

 deepen the interest of our scattered botanists and 

 lovers of plants, most of whom see that journal, and 

 few of whom have any other means of knowing what 

 is going on in the botanical world. We have, how- 

 ever, a few promising fellows who take the " Journal 



