
          no list at all with which to accompany my
 report.

 If you could furnish me with any notes
 on the botany of the country From Bent's 
 Fort to Santa Fé and on the region included
 in the map I should be most happy to
 gain such an addition to the useful information
 which I hope my report will possess

 There is one plant in particular that I
 should like to mention.  I showed it to
 you on your first visit to mr [Mr.] Stone's.  I procured
 the specimens of it near "Bosquecito" on the
 banks of the "Rio del Norte".  Col [Colonel] Emory
 obtained some of this plant also. he calls
 it the Kreosote [creosote] plant on account of its
 odor.

 My notes are now being copied at
 the Topographical Bureau.  I should
 be most happy to have you look over them.
 But if you will not be here before spring
 I am afraid that I cannot wait. I
 [proof?] sheets are made you shall see them.

 I went down to the city to see you, and
 was told that you had gone off,
        