
          drawings, but hope to see the engravngs, which I shall
 compare with my specimens-- perhaps-- by & bye!
 I have heard nothing about v. 1.3 D.C Prod. [De Candolle's Prodromus].


 [Francis] Boott writes (27 Apl. [April]) "we have lost poor [George] Gardner at 
 Ceylon & [Stephan] Endlicher! I fear the last is one of the victims
 of the excitement of 1848. He was one of the members
 of the Frank fort [Frankfurt] Assem'y [Assembly] & too zealous on the 
 movement cause" -- He also wrote me (12 Feb'y)
 "Mr. Forster [Edward Forster the Younger] at 82 is young in spirits as when you
 saw him here"-- but I have just seen an obituary
 notice of his decease, for the forthcoming Silliman [Silliman's Journal, i.e. The American Journal of Science and Arts]
 sent me by [Asa] Gray. He is there called 84. A good,
 kind-hearted man. May we meet again in Heaven!


 This will reach you by the hands of an
 English Botanist-- Dr. Alexander [possibly James Edward Alexander]-- introduced
 to us by Boott! He has letters to you or I should
 consign him, myself. He seems a very intelligent
 & a very gentlemanly man. I like him much,
 what little I have seen of him. Are not all
 naturalists good-- nay, capital fellows?


 [Jyennas?] didicisse fideliter artes
 Emollit mores. Nec sinit? esse feros!


 Best respects to Mrs. T. [Eliza Torrey] & love to the young ladies
 (why not?) Also much to yourself-- best of men
 & oyster-eaters, but worst of topographers, from


 Your very affec'e [affectionate] JC. [John Carey]
        