
          you for the invitation,
 & hope at some time to
 avail myself of it.


 Any dried plants that
 you may have for me,
 as you day, I shall be
 glad to get, & will be
 very grateful for, My
 herbarium now fills
 about 50 pigeon holes each
 4 inches deep & must [courain?],
 exclusive of mosses not
 far from 2500 species,


 I have no idea of stopping
 at Crptogamia or at descriptive
 botany. I wish to be 
 not only a thorough botanist
 but to have some acquaintance
 with other departments of
 natural history. Still I can 
 do but one thing at a time,
 and if each one thing is
 done carefully I have a
        