
          When you gave them to me, I supposed you
did it for the purpose of having them [?]
& named & described. I have done accordingly.
If this is not right, I will do in some other
way. If you wish to name them, just
give me your names for them, & I will
put them on, except the few gone to
Silliman. I have no care whether my name
goes with the new ones, & will put yours to
all the rest. I shall make all the aknowledgement
to the sources, whence I had the means of examining
them that you can desire.

I put the names on each label, & such remarks
as I judged best. In two or three cases, I
made such remarks, or errors, that I destroyed
the label in your hand, & wrote an exact copy
it & put it on the specimens. I know no mistake
is made here in any case. Except in a
few cases the specimens are fine, very
fine, well [?], & I return them
to you in the best state. I intend to
remark on them to you, soon as I can,
but I do not care to do it, till you have looked
completely at them. I took every no. in order, &
against it made my remarks, so that I have
enough to [?] you, except in the cases where
no remark was intended, as the specimens were so
clear & like what [we?] have.

C. concinna R. Br. is is not a new species. It
is an old European one, the resemblance is close
as may be, & the description almost in the
words of R. Br.  It is C. ornithopoda, as you
will see in Schk.

I expect to send
you & Dr. Gray some specimens in a few days
by a [?]. I hope Dr. G. will send me
a specimen of his new one & its name & description.

        