
          May 14' 1854


 My Dear Doctor


 You are mistaken in
 supposing that the ball of plants
 sent you a day or two ago, was the
 Albuquerque collection. They were sent
 back on the route, a couple of
 hundred miles above Fort [Smelt?].
 The Albuquerque things are to be first
 consigned to E. & G. W. Blunt. [??alir]
 St., NY. Ask there whether the
 packages in charge of the [Armijos?]
 have come.


 The collections made for
 Albuquerque to the Pacific are
 all in California with Dr. Bigelow.
 He kept them to dry thoroughly
 before sending. He does 
 not leave before June.


 Dr. Henry's plants have not
 yet come.  I have [deliveries?] of a box
 from Texas which I am expecting
 daily; [?] this may contain
 the desiderata.


 Dr. Gray has [?] plants
 as you suppose. They are however
 very few on number and of little
 notice.


 As to the discreditable
        