
          Albany, Nov. 16 1842

My dear sir

Your Herbarium came safe to hand, & I have
put the volumes in the [crossed out: ?] case provided.
In addition to this you have a great quantity of logs
now here, received in the spring or summer, which I
have not put into the collection as I supposed you
would give some direction covering this part
of the collection, or you would cut up the logs
into sections. I wish you would say
something about it soon.

I am anxious to put the whole collection into complete 
order before January, [added: &] to make it as large as possible. 
I expect or at least I fear that it is the determination
of the [locos?] to let the whole thing [crossed out: sleep] [added: to] sleep &
[added: that it may] die a natural but lingering death. Those of us
who have put in by final & characteristic specimens 
will regret that such a result should follow after
so much expenditure of means. I wish you would
suggest some plan by which we may [crossed out: still] hope to 
[added: secure] [crossed out: establish the] a favorable termination of the survey, by
which I mean, rather the safe keeping of the collections &
additions from time to time as [crossed out: may] opportunity may
favor. I hope especially you will be able 
to [crossed out: co] send up before the close of navigation all
you design for the collection, & tell me soon
what is to be done with your logs, & wood now
on hand.

We have full one hundred students, but we have to give
too much credit. Our class is better than last year
except that we [crossed out: take] am obliged to take [insert: more] notes.

Yours truly
E. Emmons

J. Torrey Prof
Chemistry etc. University
New York.

        