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of Botany " or sometliing of the kind. Should I 

 have anything to communicate of interest to any other 

 than our local botanists, I shaU publish of course un- 

 der my own name. You wiU receive with this a little 

 notice of some European herbaria, which, common- 

 place as it must be on your side of the water, is useful 

 to our own people. I have been as brief as I could, 

 and have taken the pains to drop the first person sin- 

 gular. I am not sure but I have already sent you a 

 copy through Mr. Pamphlin. Poor Eafinesque,^ you 

 know, perhaps, is dead; and I have attempted the 

 somewhat ungracious task of giving some account of 

 his botanical writings, which I will send you when 

 printed. 



I find that Townsend, Nuttall's companion, pub- 

 lished, while I was abroad, an account of their jour- 

 ney. I have never seen a copy, and am told it is out 

 of print ; but I must try to find a copy for you. 

 Townsend being poor, Nuttall waived his intention of 

 publishing in his favor. I have heard that Townsend 

 wishes to make a journey as collector of birds, plants, 

 etc. I wish he would go to the southern Rocky 

 Mountains, and trace them into New Spain. Nuttall 

 . has brought home the Grayia. Have you ever received 

 any more of Nuttall's plants, or has Boott ? He is 

 selling them to different persons for ten dollars per 

 hundred ; just such specimens as you received through 

 Boott, or sometimes much better and more copious ones. 

 I have some of his Compositse in my hands, which Webb 

 has ordered. He has a considerable number of Oregon 



^ S. ConstantineEafinesque-Schmaltz, d. 1840. A Sicilian bytirtli. 

 First arrived in the United States, 1802, for three years ; returned 

 in 1815, and explored the Alleghanies and Southern States. " An 

 eccentric but certainly gifted personage, connected with the natural 

 history of this country for the last thirty-five years " [A. G.]. 



