
          chemists, he overrates the advantages of chemical
knowledge in the progess of agriculture. I got
the Geological Survey of Albany Co. It is a
curiosity - & will do some good. You know Eaton's
Geology gas been [picked?] in the N. Am. Review.
I am not certain who did it, but I know it was
not Dr. Webster. It was not fairly done - not, as
candidly, as it ought to have been. Hayden's Essays
was also reviewed in the last No. of the same 
with little [censure?], & not much praise - but I
could not but think, if the work had been by
Eaton, it would not have come off so well.

The box I sent to you, I have got from Albany.
I wish you would write me from [?], whether the
plants will be spoiled by keeping thro' winter. I
presume they will - but I should like to know.
You sent me [Acharins'?] Lichen. How can I pay you
for it? I can not want Agardh's Algarum _ except
for a curiosity - for I can not look at the things. I
have concluded on the subject - I have too much to
do - I can not keep up with phenogamous plants _
etc., I [?] [?] too little for [?] to in
duce me to do any thing, were not my curiosity
gratified a little.

Torreya is truely [overstocked?]
I hope [one?] will stand the others must Go to some
other one, if they do not get back into old [?],
like those of Raf.

I heard of no plants for me
at Albany suppose you did not forward any.

Your Herbarium is probably [?] by this
time, & your [are?] prepared to open the Spring

        