
          Proceedings of the Ph. [Philadelphia] Academy of N. [Natural] Sciences, some years
 back, describing under the name of Hychoria
 (carya) Texance, a tree quite different from
 his. This, I had corrected, at a following meeting
 of the Academy, into carya Buckleyi.


 I am expecting Buckley in the course of the next
 summer. He had been attached to the Geological 
 Survey of Texas and has already a very large
 collection, containing, says he, many new plants
 of the Northern part of the state, a section which
 had not been explored as yet by any botanist.


 My announcement to the Academy that
 you would soon send as a share of the M. B.
 plants has been received with great pleasure.
 I hope, when there is chance, that you will
 spare some few specimens for me, in the same
 invoice _ In as much as I assure you that my
 collection is destined to the Garden of Plants
 of Paris, after my death _ now that I have fulilled
 my duty toward the Phil. [Philadelphia]  Acad. [Academy] of N. [Natural] Sciences.


 As you say justly Dr Chapman's book is  a 
 very creditable performance. It is the counterpart
        