
          it deserves well in contradicitiaction with your aureum
 I am glad to see all the botanical reports published together
 it will be more convenient to our researchers.


 I have seen, this morning, my young friend
 Hilgard- He is doing very well, except that he is extremely
 weak. He was quite in his senses, determined to do away
 with his spiritual fooleries and to occupy his mind in
 a more quiet manner. I sent him his pencils and colors
 to continue the designs of our new species and also his
 herbarium and books. Dr Kirkbride has every hope that
 he will recover.


 I have finished the polygaleae [added: in my undertaking] for the North
 American herbarium of the Academy of Sciences. Wilst
 the exception of a few arctic species, so far, I have
 filled up all the names of your flora, with addition
 of nearly all that had been published since. It is a long
 work; but it will remain a monument of my patience
 and industry - I hope I will be able to complete it before
 I go off from this world. It [added: is] in doing this work that I can
 really appreciate the value of my herbarium; As far
 as I have your, I have given away more than a hundred
 species, wanting in that great collection gathered by such
 men as Nuttall, Kecuote, Leavenworth, Pickering, &c&c.


 The fifteen drawings of Hilgard are to illustrate
        