
          been fortunate enough to meet with it. I
subscribed (on behalf of our Cabinet of Natural
Science) for the entire work on the Natural
History of New York, and we received four of
the volumes, when it ceased coming. What
is the reason the Bookseller discontinued 
sending it, I am unable to guess.  I think
I must write, and inquire about it.

I am very sorry to hear that the Botanical
results of the Exploring Expedition are in
such a hopeless condition, though
it is pretty much what might have
been expected, from the hands they
were in.

I am much afraid that
Dr. Gray had so many works on
hand, he will work himself to death before 
he gets any of them completed.
I have been lecturing him repeatedly
on the subject, but it is all in vain.
I was in hopes you & he would have
given us the N.A. [North American] Flora, in my time; but
I have given both that, & De Candolle's Prodromus,
up in despair. I do not, now, expect to see
either of them finished. But, in any event,
I shall remain, to the last, your very sincere
& obliged friend,
Wm Darlington

Dr. Jno. [John] Torrey
Princeton, N.J.
        