
          I have found several plants, which were
new to me, such as the Chrysosplenium
oppositifolium, Trillium pictum, Calla
palustris, Potentilla tridentata, Cypripedium
pubescens etc.

I am to deliver about 8 lectures now
on Mineralogy in the month of July.
I have about 200 species and varieties
of minerals in small specimens.
But a few essential ones are wanting.
I have but a few ores, no Asphaltum,
Jet nor Amber. I shall send you all
the rare plants I can find and you
must have as many of the following
minerals to send me [insert: by the same hand] as possible — Every
kind of ore with numbers and an explanatory
letter, Amber, Jet, Asphalt, [Sulphate?]
of lime, Carbonate of barytes [barium], Strontian,
Indurated marl, Opal, Emery, Topaz,
        