
          at auction, in 20 vols [volumes] 4to [quarto]. There are 650 plates in it, more than it
 cost [francs?]. Of course any true member of the L.N.H. [Lyceum of Natural History of New York] will be welcome 
 to consult it at any time if the extent of his researches makes it desireable
 to do so. I have seen in a N.Y. paper the names of your new officers, you
 have made some very [proper?] charges [changes?]and I perceive have some new
 associates. I am glad of this, such a society must increase in such
 a place as New York, which as [we tell?] the ignoramuses here
 is soon to be in all things the greatest City in all the whole world.


 I want you to send me as soon as possible after the receipt of this
 an introductory letter to [Augustin Pyramus] De Candolle, if you are in correspondence with
 him. Tell him that being a sort of Botanist myself I am
 unwilling to pass through Geneva without paying my respects to
 a person so eminently distinguished in that science as himself.


 Jones & myself are nearly ready to set out on our tour, but [will?]
 be a few days detained by slight illness of Jones; of which he is [added with caret: now] recovering.
 I will give you a sketch of our plan. Leaving Paris we first go
 north by Brussels Antwerp Ghent Maastricht Aix la Chapelle to
 Cologne which brings us on the Rhine. Up the course of this river
 which at this part is celebrated for its fine scenery, as far as
 Mayance [Mainz]. Hence to Frankfort [Frankfurt] Cassel [Kassel] Gottingen Brunswick
 Hanover &c. &c. to Berlin. From Berlin by Leipsich [Leipzig] and pay a 
 visit to [Curtius Sprengelius Cryptogami____?][meaning Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, author of (among other things) An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants]. From Dresden
 to Prague & Vienna, and from that city through Bavaria to
 the North of Switzerland where we expect to arrive in about three months
 after leaving Paris. After a reasonable stay among the mountains

        