
          known that the new genus Osteopera, was [crossed out : the] a well known animal
 of the old genus Cavia & type of the genus Caolgeniss of Ft. [?].
 The new bondylura of Harris was long eliminated by
 a paragraph in [crossed out : the] a Phila. [Philadelphia] paper by Wood the printer.
 The yankees have not yet distinguished themselves greatly in 
 Zoology. Harlan's new species is also nominal, there is but
 one, which inhabits New York and is easily recognized by its
 [crossed out : the] asterisk at the end of his nose.  If he were a Carex this
 mark would make him a new species. A bad joke, but let it go,
 the times must be dull at West Point and it may pass there?


 I shall send a piece of Tuckahoe for you
 to Mr. Shaw's tomorrow.


 I have a box of books from France in port. [?]
 is I believe, Decandolle [De Candolle] vol. [volume] 2 & Persoon's Mycologia Euro [Mycologia europaea]
 vol [volume] 2. I have also lately received the last published vol [volume] of
 the Linnean Trans [Transactions]. In it are a new Carices from Nepal
 described by Don. He has named one Lenticularis. He proposes
 to divide the genus into several, but has not attempted to do it.
 If you wish to be original you can set the example in the Flora.
 A great difficulty would be to invent good names. In ornithology
 it would be done at once where the sections are so well defined.

        