
          most always lay aside a specimen for you.


 I forgot to thank you for the few bits of
 California plants; from that remote region every
 thing is most interesting.  You can have no idea
 how [near?] we have considered ourselves now to Oregon
 & California; we mentally travel with those thousands
 of emigrants, and begin to think the Rocky Mts
 not much further off than the Alleghanies. The interest
 we take in the country gives a new value to its
 natural productions!


 I shall request my friend , Mr Plump, who
 takes the parcel with him, to leave it at [Wiley?]
 & [Putnams?].


 Pity that Fremont is so selfish or narrow minded
 or the department so niggardly not to send any
 naturalists out with him.  What an opportunity
 and what a field! [T?] is expected here every
 day.


 Very respectfully,


 yours


 George Englemann
        