
          man, and a very good botanist
 especially addicted to the coal
 plants. He was telegraphed yesterday 
 but has not yet replied.
 In case he will not go it would 
 be well to have some one else in
 view. Who can you recommend?
 Let me know at once: name, qualification, 
 age, etc. Where is Dr. Agnew?
 I wish he could be available.
 Williamson will also want a geologist
 probably, although one is partially
 bespoken.


 It seems pretty well understood
 that the natural History reports 
 will come last in a separate
 set of vols. All the botany thus
 together. But I would not merge
 all in one.  As you say that would
 be unjust to the small collections.
 Make separate reports for Beckwith
 & Pope but to complete the
 thing I would make a brief mention 
 in Whipple's report of these others
 and indeed of all the western
 species except Mexican Boundary.
 My plan is to render the totality
 of the Zoological reports [?] as
 a complete work on the western
 country, whether all the
        