
          Albany Feby [February] 5th 1870


 My dear Prof [Professor] Torrey


 I received your
 favor of the 4th ult [ultimo] and
 attended to your request
 in due time. I placed the
 package in Mr. Peck's 
 hands & he forwarded, as 
 I knew Mr. Peck to be a [crossed out : freie]
 correspondent of Mr. Olney [Stephen Thayer Olney].


 Yes! work to the end of 
 life & that would be a 
 pleasure if one did
 not have to deal with
 Legislatures, or with financial
 officers who think everything
 spent for science so much
 wasted - or so much that
 they do not have the  head only
 of for profits [??erquesites?].

        