
          the proofs of the memoir on
Cactaceae to Dr. Gray for correction.
Whether it is printed or not I do not
know neither do I know who had
the supervision of the corrections of
the engravings. Some one [someone] competent
I should suppose ought to see to it,
or terrible blunders may be the 
consequence.

Mr. Sullivant I fear has got into a 
muss -- or may get me into it -- with
the government officers with regard
to my mosses. He has them prepared
with 10 engravings nearly ready for
publication but I fear the government 
printers will hardly agree to his
terms, which is to have the engravings
made and printed under his
own eye. If not taken by the 
Government they will be published
in the Transactions of the Boston 
Academy of Sciences, so that if I
can keep out of the scrape "I don't 
        