
          about that botany, and Renwick & [McNeven?] are at work
 about some minerals. You know if their papers are read
 first, they must be published first with these and w/paper
 provided by [Banan?] we can eke out Vol. 1 Part 2.


     I have not seen Dr. Barratt yet.  He is welcome to
 any plants of wh. I have duplicates.  The collection he
 sent me though pretty numerous in species, contains
 many poor specimens, particularly of grasses, which I
 [ink splotch over word] like to send to [Europe?] & are of little
 use to myself.


     [ink splotch over word] has just been here & I gave him [page is torn]
 letter.  There is no one but him to attend to the Annals.
 There is a label lost from among the sp. to the [illegible].  Perhaps
 I may [illegible] but can you not send a list of the ten
 species within order they must [illegible] in the [illegible], with
 their proper originations.  In the [illegible] you named
 C. anida, C. [illegible] & something else C.gracillima, who
 in the [illegible].


     Think of those things and believe me,


                                   Yours ever


                                        Wm Cooper 
        