
          Troy  Feb. 8th 1823

Dear friend,

I will talk no more about
mistakes. But I wish to know whether
I shall strike out any more of your new
species. You know you directed me to
leave out several from the 3d which
I published in the 2d Ed. I believe all
Bigelow's new species are old ones. I do
not believe one of Nuttall's new minerals
is new. But if they were, how riduculous
to name them after Gesserman, Franklin
&c.[etc.] who never knew quartz from 
marble.

Now attend to me particularly,
as I did to you when you were in
trouble about your catalogue. I then
went to Albany and spent three days
with Edwin James to get your errata,
Index &c.[etc.]  right; after I received your
frightful letter.

My 4th Ed. Manual is now printing.
36 pages are already printed. We
are going on at the rate of 72 pages
per week, so as to finish by the first
of April. The omissions in species of
Crypts, I had partly noticed, but not
all. But I have no books to take 
descriptions from. Will you then send
me, forthwith, the species, with their
descriptions of the following genera
        