
          soon as possible, as I wish to get out
 the work immediately.


 I am sorry that the text 
 to your Botanical paper for the
 Smithsonian contributions will not be
 ready for the 2nd volume: that is un-
 less the [m??] be now ready.  The plates 
 are all finished and here, and it would
 not take long to print the text in
 New York.  Its not appearing in the
 2nd vol. now nearly ready for the binders,
 will cause an undesirable delay in
 publishing the results of your labors to
 the world. What will you do
 with the new plants of Mr. Rich.
 Could not they come in an 
 appendix?


 Yours respectfully,
 S.F. Baird
 Asst. Sec. Sm. Ins
 [Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution]


 Dr. John Torrey
 New York
        