
          I received yourfirst number. I [?]
Will and your addressed circular. My daughter
was [?], after asking her [my?] opinion
the [crossed out: ?] [talk?] how she would be a subscriber.

I shall soon send you a long letter.
I shall demonstrate that Beck's 
Ranunculus Clintonii is a distinct species,
and absolutely new. I was the 
discoverer; but Iwas wrong in supposing
it the prostratus. I am right
in my Laniora Lissuta, right in
my Polygonum [shuitane?], right
in saying that the Heterantherus
of South Bay at Hudson is a
a combination of the Clasus [hole in paper]dia
and Gynopedia of Linneas
as I wrote you [added: about] 14 years ago.

Yours truly,

Amos Eaton.
        