
          Wms. Coll. June 2nd 1820.

Dear Sir,

Your letter of May 16th [?], the day [?] by
Mrs. Moore, & the box of minerals etc. [started?]. I told you in that
letter, I had seen Emmons. I hope you have the box, poor as its
contents were - I have yours by Dr. Robbins. I did not find any [Chlorota?] 
for I did not imagine you could want it, so abundant is it here.
I had forwarned you by letter, that you would find little in the box 
so you would not be disappointed, tho' you might wish for more. I
want more of your Dattolite, [?] (good), Stilbite, & Sulphate of [Copperas?] 
in particular.

I have Eaton's Geology, tho' I have not read it.
I see it is much improved, by merely looking at spots in it. He daubs
the [paths?] well, when occasion offers, &, he rarely wants a [?] long for
[?]. It is written in better style - & the additions are in some parts,
(perhaps all, for I have not [?] all) valuable. I have been at Troy, &,
tho' he is in [Berkshire?] Co., found you were to send some copies to Europe
to Johnson etc. etc. etc. The minerals collected by the Troy Lyceum, [added: are] very
honorable to them. And they are pretty well put up - rather crowded,
but appear well. They have no herbarium. The Grasses & Cryptoga
mia, you sent them, composes the herbarium of the Lyceum!!! I
was amazed - & told them it was not enough, that members had their
own herbarium. The Lyceum should have one. Your plants are
put into a handsome book. But those I sent, some last fall, are
not yet in the Lyceum. I told some of them, there was no [?] to
send them plants, if they would not collect their own. And I think
they will go to work about it _ but I am not clear about it. I
will send them some more - but not many, if they are not to go
into the Lyceum.

I am glad you & others are to lecture
on Nat. Hist. in the Lyceum. It ought to be done, if you mean
to be known much. Do you have classes? or, is it only for the
Lyceum? It is curious that [Grisom?] should begin to pound
his head [?] the rocks at this late day - but he may do good.

On the other page is a Catalogue of the Cryptogamia. you
have sent me - there are no [added: foreign] grasses. I should be glad of grasses,
foreign or domestic, which I have not. Of Carices, I should be
specially fond. I am collecting plants for you, & I [?] hold of
all cryptogamia I can see. I have found Climacium dendroides
inclosed is one for you. I have a Grimmia too, I believe - perhaps 
two of them. The truth I can not [well?] on yet. Didymodon too, I
hope I have, unless it is Gymnostomum [Gymnostoma?] hardly forward enough.
Jungurmannia [tridenticulata?], I do not know [about?] I have found one
now going into fruit, that I think can not be the one, I have got here
before. The [mountain T.?], I shall hardly get,  it is in a place too
much out of the way. I expect to be on the Mt. soon but it will
be too early for it & it is in a sad place to climb too. I shall go up
for Pinus Fraseri & some others. I have just found [Ham?]. Zanthax
ylum. Also Ilex canadensis, close by me - now in flower. It
troubled me much. It had generally 4 stamens, but often 5, or 6  no
calyx [?] often polygamous found it low down in a
marsh, & also on a rocky hill 300 feet higher. But I shall not go on
the hill mentioned in the [Manual?] for it. I have saved many specimens.
I have a small class in Botany. They have found Viola palmata
in [place name?] also a bush, I can not tell small wooly looking flowers
in bunches, [?] and [?] appears to be 5-1, or 5-3  leaves now
small, very villose, seem to be [?], terminal [one ?] [now/non?] [?] 
bush has odious odor when cut.

I have now cut all our
willows  I have flowers & leaves  but shall take leaves anew
this season.

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The Gynophora [Gynophorea?] has small [pustulas?], & I should
call it G. [pustulata?], but the [pustules?] are so
much smaller than those in the one you sent
me from Sweden. I shall find Climacium in
[newer?] fruit I hope this summer. It is abundant 
about here. I think too, Didymodon pallidum [pallidus?].

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I shall send you some plants before long,
if an opportunity presents. I have Sambucus
in fine state for you, as well as many others.
I fear I shall not get [Convollonia?] [umbellulata?].
It is gone on the [?] land. I hope to see it another
[?], in a day or two. Do not be frightened by this epis
tle - it is too long, I agree  C. Dewey
        