
          expeditions yet.  If I should be a person so disposed
 he might [undertake?] as most interesting collection of [seeds?]
 and living plants for botanic gardens - . I think 
 that this latter circumstance has been by far too
 much neglected by our travelling botanists & nat-
uralists. - Please write me when you have a
 few leisure moments to spare & allow me to thank
 you for the many favors I have already received from
 you. -------------                     most truly yours,
                                                A.J. Downing


 ... Do you leave N York with your family this
 summer?
        