
          convinced, that a lecturer should not be a real man of science : or rather
I ought today, the real man of science ought to be provided for, so as not
to be obliged to lecture so or to obtain a sustenance. Had I only a
few hundreds a year, sufficient to enable me to support my family,
without lecturing, I might with the information I have laid up, now
be of use to [added: the] Botanical world; but [crossed out : also?] all my notes will in the
course of a few years be useless [added: by my death] if indeed by that time also, through
want of viability to pay a person to assist me in the mechanical
department, (such as getting my plants glued down, and placing them in
my cabinets) my whole herbarium have not gone to [waste?].

Many of your plants were extremely interesting to me, particularly those
from the mountains. It is astonishing that, [not in the tending?] all I got
from you, Dr. Gray, and Drummond, I am defective in so many United
States plants. The other day a gentleman (a merchant) in Glasgow got
a few plants from Cincinnati, and kindly allowed me to take specimens
(even unique ones) of what I wanted; and there were from ten to twenty
that I had not got before. I suspect tho I am deficient in the very 
common, as well as the very rare ones. At one time I commenced marking
off on your flora, all I had, but I was obliged to give this up for want
of time to examine accurately a great many that were either indifferently
named, or had no names at all, but which I pass in to what seem to be
peer genera, allowing the species to be worked out afterwards. So that I 
could not say, without a comparison, what I have or what I have not.

What length is your Flora: the last part I have seen is the 3d of 
vol [volume] 2d. I hope at all events you will complete that volume, so that one
can get it bound.

I have been expecting Dr. Wight, from India, but now he writes
that he cannot be home till 1851. As soon as he comes, we are to
let about the remainder of the Prodromus Flor. Penin. Ind. or. [Prodromus florae peninsulae Indiae orientalis] 
It was quite impossible from me, here, to go on with it, so long as he
        