
          Williams College. May 9th 1817

Dear friend,

This letter I send merely to
apprise you of another which I shall
soon send by the hand of a messenger.

In my letter by Esq. Gilbert of New
Haven who carried you the herbarium
I told you of the invitation I had recieved
to come to this college. I have
gone through with a course of lectures
on Mineralogy and have delivered 14
lectures on Botany. I have a class
of about 70 — The faculty also
attend, excepting the president.

I have just labeled my eighty
eighth species found in flower this spring,
all woods plants.
        