
          You must be a tolerably clever fellow to
permit me to publish your new species
first. But if the Manual is tolerable, it 
may not injure you. But I must be
permitted to disagree with you respecting
exotics. Had you ever been employed
as a country teacher we should be of
one opinion in that respect. But your
other request would be compied with - that
is, the specific descriptions shall be nearly 
as long as [Parsons?] and every species shall
begin a new line. I follow in one respect, the
plan of Martin's Miller. I give the 
genera, then the species under an alphabetical
arrangement of the generic names.
This may be objected to at first, on account
of separating the natural genera so far. But
I have used such a manuscript two [?]
and find it the most convenient. After a very
little experience, a student generally knows
the genus without reading it chacters. Then
he may find it alphabetically and search
for the species etc. I shall give the common 
synonyms and the authors names to
all new species. But it seems to me useless in
my compilation to give all the European authors. 
I am very particular about [?]
        