
          thousands a year. 2 prints appear annually with
12 plates in each—the 2d [second] has come out

I am glad to hear from D. Griffith
whom I met in  Glascow that Wilsons' Ornithology 
is going to be continued

Within the last 2 months I have
suffered a print dissappointment in my
Booksales giving up a work of mine for
the Cryptogamia of Scotland which he
had undertakern—his sole reason was
that he found it could not be got up
in Scotld [Scotland] & he would not venture to
employ London workman on account of
the distance— my only consolation
is that D. Hooker has had a work
given up after having been undertaken
for the same reason. I wished to
have given figures of all our fungi &
of other new cryptogamia plants. I have
about 100 drawing ready for publication.
if I do not succeed in my present plan
I shall continue my old one of giving
        