
          The species of this Genus are very numerous here and will
 soon be in flower. Indeed some of them are alreay.
 I begin to be quite interested in the grapes & I am well 
 assured, that Dr. Grays Monograph will aid me very much
 Please return him my sincere acknowledgements for the copy
 he placed in your hands for me. - I should do this personally 
 if I knew where a letter could find him.


 I am also under great obligations to Mr. Carey for
 the excellent work of Lindley. Ask him if I can oblige 
 him in any way. I have seen a copy of the work in possession
 of Mr. Croom.


 The Genus Smilax is in such a state of confusion
 that I have determined to write minute descriptions
 of all the species, growing in this region (& they are numerous)
 & transmit them to you for publication in the Annals of
 your Lyceum, if you should think them of suffiecent
 importances, if not, for your own private use. I have 
 thus far examined the fruit & the plants as they appear in
 the winter, & I shall have them prepared by the coming fall.


 I had almost forgotten to state, that, accompanying the Box 
 of Plants, will be found a smaller Box, containing such
 Bugs, Moths, Butterflies, Lizards, &c. as I have picked up during
 my residence in the Territory. Whatever they may may prove
 to be, I know not: that matter must be left with your
 wise ones. - They are designed for the Lyceum.


 The length of the Antennas of that insect in one of the Vials
 I should consider uncommon, & the foreign substances, attached 
 to the Larva in the other, appear to be the cones [?] of
 a small species of Moth. Is it unusual?

        