
          elsewhere. I have examined in our 
register the names of all the counsellors and 
attorneys of law & have asked one of two of 
our lawyers if they know such a person as 
Mr. Davidge but have not as yet been able to 
discover any such person. Should I ever meet him
I will endeveour to ascertian the fate of 
Gerville's Algae. I was a good deal surprised 
at D.B.'s account of the [?]. Nuttall in 
his genera in very different & I should think 
much more likely to be true- has not the D
confounded the primary vaginate leaves of N 
with the Cotyledons? I should have been
happy to have made the exchange I proposed by
Mr. Cooper had I received his letter at the
time it was written but before I did so
(his letter was sent on to Phila" with yours & recd at 
the same time) it proposed an exchange of plants for shells)
        