
          Lancaster Octo [October] 21st 1858


 My Dear Friend.


 It is now a long time
 since I have heard from you or Dr. 
 Gray. I have seen the 1st vol. [volume] 
 of Maj [Major] Emory's Report of the Boundary
 Commission. The whole work is
 only a partial Report of the Survey
 embracing details of little excepting
 the commencement and ending of the
 Survey. The Mimbres, Cobre,
 Upper Gila, and indeed all those regions
 between the Rio Grande near the 32nd
 parallel & the upper Gila excepting
 what may be embraced in the
 Natural History Collections are quite
 meagre. Even the Geology which in
 the other portions of the survey is full
 and satisfactory is here nearly as blank
 as the wilderness itself. When will
 the Botany be published?

        