
          I expect to [send?] you this morning Greville's proof.  As soon as you
 have looked over it and made your corrections, send it back and
 then next proof, will contain the commencement of your [monograph?].


     I wish you would give me particular questions how any
 thing is to be forwarded to you.  Who takes charge of parcels on
 board the boat and which boat do you [illegible] sloop or
 steam boat?  Is any boat there sending by mail? 
 I should have sent you Brown's [illegible] but know of no safe conveyance.
 The course seem to be of opinion that it is better not to print
 more than 50 extra copies of the monograph, half of them for the authors.
 They fear it will hurt the sale of the Annals, and what is still worse
 be quoted as a separate work.


     We have already two plates for the no., which with 8 of [Cauces?]
 will 18 pt. in the 2nd 1/2 vol. - 31 in vol. [12th?]


     What can I do for D.K. is discourse in the way of Botany.
 I have promised to give the no. of Sp. added since the publication of [illegible]
 Flora, and have made a list from Nuttall, Elliott Bigelow & your
 vol. 1, without taking indiscriminately all proposed as new you gentle-
 men, who amounts to 555 sp.  I have not yet added those in yours
 & Nuttalls papers in Sillimans Journal, the Annals, Elliotts
 13th no. your 2nd vol.  What other sources are there.  How can I find
 out what Nuttall discovered in southwestern territory?  I do not
 intend to include any found higher 450 n. lat., or south of about 30 degrees.
    I thought also of adding some observationsof the geograph. distribution
 and [propositions?] of certain families after the manner of Humboldt, in
 whose statements respecting our plants there is a considerable error.

        