
          a few new plants but not as many as I expected. Nothing to 
 compare with the discoveries of our friend Rafinesque from
 whom I have just heard. What are we to think of him. Can
 his new species and genera be relied on or does he forget
 to ascertain the discoveries of his predecessors.


 The package you had the goodness to send me by Mr.
 Rowan I received. But while I was waiting for health to
 compare your experiments with my own I suffered as I [hinted?]
 before the time to escape in which I should at least have
 acknowledged their arrival. I have now also to acknowledge
 the receipt of your friendly letter of the 19. & 27 Sept.
 and of the box of minerals and plants which accompanied
 the last by the [Arethusa?]. So [Do?] accept my best thanks
 for these recollections of me which I have not [me..ited?]
 and let me beg you to continue your correspondence and
 your last package of plants contains many rare specimens
 which were wanting in my Herbarium and your minerals
 were very acceptable. I shall look forward with much interest
 to those you promise to send me and to the foreign plants
 of which you can spare duplicates. My situation in this
 city is not favorable to the increase of my Herbarium
 as few literary Foreigners visit me, and I find European
 correspondence not easily maintained. From some to 
 whom I have written I have never heard and with others
 I only interchange a letter in two years. I would be much
        