
          Receive my thanks for the pamphlet you have sent
 me; I have been fortunate enough as to find in my
 collection a handsome specimen of the Mactanthera
 [Lecatii?]. As my collection of American plants is now
 pretty extensive, and Dr Pickering, in peruring it,
 found several very doubtful specimens, should you
 desire to peruse it when you visit our city, I
 would keep it ready for you; That is, as my [added: native &] exotic
 plants are all mixed together, I would separate them,
 so as to shorten the labour. If my proposition be
 agreable to you, let me know it in time.


 Yours very respectfully


 E. [Elias] Durand


 Decaudole in 20 vol of Prodounus places the quillaja
 among the Rosaceae - see page 547 vol 20. Lamark says
 cet [added: illegible] arbae [added:est] precieux dans le Chil�. Sou e'cource pulvirise� &
 m�le� � une quantit� d'law saffisante, devient [?]
 comme celle o� l'ou fait dinoudre du savon; Elle sert
 � d�grainer les laines et les antres e'toffer. Ou fait
 avec cette e'corce un commerce an�s considerable
 dans le Perou & le Chil�.


 I will adress [address] the back to Ch 5 deBehr's
 Foreign book store, Broadway; Please to call
 for it Tuesday or Wednesday morning, it [?]
 to theere, My respect to Drs Gray & Pickering
        