
          and it has been augmented 
 lately by the same Lady, who
 consigned to us her [added: late] Husband's
 extensive Herbarium, well known,
 in England at least, as the
 Fielding Collection. We
 are thus well supplied with 
 plants from those parts of 
 America which had been
 explored at the time the
 collection was made, but 
 should be grateful of [?]
 [?] any from parts more 
 recently examined.


 When I had the pleasure 
 of seeing you in New York  
 I recollect requesting you as in
 a double cause my Colleagues,
 holding the two Chairs of Chemistry 
 and Botany. I know not whether
 the same applies to you at the present
 moment, but I have within the last 
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