
          I have just seen five pages of your catalogue
in type; but there is no proof yet.
Beck will correct it, and then it will
be sent to you.

I think with you, that Whitlow is of
no use to botany. At first [Eli] Ives and I
suffered the exhibition of his plates
might excite a taste for botany. But
I have satisfied my mind, that it is
harder to get a class for his having
been in a village or city. Botanists
often encourage him( I among the rest)
which induces a belief, that what
he teaches is botany. Whereas it is at
best but a scurrilous caricature
of botany.

I succeeded in finding fibrous 
[substrate?] of [Strontion ?] in Schoharie connty.
I will send you specimens with remarks
when I can. The Troy folks call this
        