
          my hands. Botany will again assume it ascendancy.
Indeed it is already doing so. A 
few months ago I proposed to Hooker a
folio work on ferns and I am happy
to say we are in progress. It will some out
in 4terly [quarterly] parts 20 plates in each part with
latin descriptions. The title will be
"Icones filicum ad eas potissimum species illustrandas 
destinatæ, quæ hactenus, vel in 
herbariis delituerunt prorsus incognitae, vel 
saltem nondum per icones botanicis innotuerunt"
Auct. Hooker & Greville &
my Crypt. Flora will give up the ghost I seem 
afraid at the end of the present vol. (the 
5th). I have lost near [pounds] 100 by it. It is one
of those works that one cannot afford
to give away however one might feel
inclued (at least in my case). If however
you ever do honor to the work by purchasing
it write to me & I will purchase it 
at the author's price viz 3[s - shillings?]
instead of 4 [s?] per number. At the end of 
the 5th vol there will be 60 nos.

You do not seem to be aware that 
Hooker's System of Plants is [?] up at
at any rate for the present. No bookseller
will take it.

The new Medical Journal has changed its
[place?] and cut down the collateral sciences
so much that I shall do nothing more
for it. I am now connected with Brewsters
and shall be very glad to receive
any notices from you especially in
minerology or chemistry. Could you not
        