
          some with a question, which I wish you would
notice particularly & write me the right & wrong.
I have not yet found time to hunt for lichens, & I have
sent you only two of them. Chemical [?] [occupy?]
me now - yet I mean to [steal?] away soon. I have
[?] [?] of the Gyrophora this vacation, which
I shall note in a Geological notice of this County.

I rcvd. the other day a quantity of plants from your
hand  no letter. They came safely, & I am much
obliged to you. I give you many thanks for the new
ones to me, & nearly all are new. I want much to
see your Asters & Solidagos & Carices, if you have
spare specimens for me, as well as many more,
which your section contains. I thank you for
your offer of plants for the German correspondence,
& shall be happy to [?] it. I have put up no
plants for the German Prof.  for I have had no
time, & suppose alas it is too late to send by
the vessel you mentioned.

As to the Minerals I now send, I hardly
know what to say. A few you will like - but 
I fear many will not be worth much to you.
I have sent a few for Col. Gibbs & Mr. Pierce, &
hope to send them to you because you marked
some to me with their name. You [added: will] be so good
as to distribute them, if the gentlemen wish them.
I have thought of making up a box of all our
geological specimens for Col. Gibbs  but on
the whole do not know whether he would wish
them for the Society, in which Prof. Silliman
said he was arranging minerals by States.   
        