
          the Expedition, and I do hope, that if any 
thing like a liberal compensation is offered, that
you will take hold, and then we may expect
something good yet to come out of it.

With regard to the Kooskooskie plants of 
which I wrote you, my advice would be, that 
you write Col. [Colonel] Totten, he has a good deal of 
influence with the Nat. [National] Institute, and would at
once see the propriety of you having them. My 
being connected with Ex. [Exploring] Expedition, prevents 
me from urging their transmission, as there are
people here narrow minded enough to believe, 
that I wished through them to string then the 
botany of the Expedition, and in part this opinion 
is correct, but my motive for wishing you to 
have them, is based on a more liberal and 
broader principle, and as they are Public property 
and you are engaged on a Public botanical work
on the pants of the same region, and farther
they are of no use to any body else in this country.

Doctor Pickering is now in Phila. [Philadelphia] correcting the 
proof of his Book on the "Races of Man"?
and I think we shall have a good work of 
it, and it wont be like any production of

        