
          P.S. No 2  Feby. [February] 4th. 1852


 You say in your September you do not know what
 disposition I want made of my plants and I can
 hardly tell you myself. There has been considerable
 difficulty with us in regard to the head of the scientific
 corps Col [Colonel] Graham claiming it by the direct
 instructions of the department while Mr. Bartlett does
 so by implication he being obliged to receive the reports
 of Col. [Colonel] Graham. I have never received any orders
 written or verbal from Mr. B. on the subject excepting
 more than a year ago he appeared displeased
 that I had sent my plants to the Smithsonian
 Institute that I had collected on the route from
 San Antonio. He gave Mr. Wright & Mr. Clark orders
 to deposit their collections in natural history at 
 Mr. McGoffins [probably James Wiley Magoffin] near El Paso which I believe they
 have neglected to do. I hardly understand what
 object he has in this unless he intends to make
 the reports himself, or at least through some
 other agency than his Collectors which unless there be
 some public reason for it would appear rather unjust.
 I had supposed that what was done in
 elucidation of the natural history and resources of 
 this country the credit should enure to those who
 performed the services and to entitle the Commission
 and its officers to due credit we have only to make 
 our Reports to the Commissioner.


 Dr. Parry has gone down
 the Gila in search of the Commissioner and Mr. Wright

        