
          Smithsonian Institution.
 January 3, 1853.


 My dear Sir,


 Any rectification or correction
 which you should be willing to make
 to the Botany in Capt Stansbury's
 Report on the Great Salt Lake I 
 would gladly insert in the "Bibliography
 for 1852 which I am [inserted: now] preparing.


 The "Bibliography for 1854" has just
 been reprinted in a dress more
 suitable to the wants of naturalists
 than the one under which it first appeared
 in the American Journal of Science.


 Another edition of Capt Stansbury is 
 to be ordered soon [inserted: by Congress] so that corrections
 by you could be incorporated if your
 time will allow to forward me the list.


 With high regards
 I remain truly yours
 C. Girard


 Dr John Torrey.
 New York.

        