
          abroad (which the committee will not
 agree to) but by working up a part abroad
 in Hooker or Benthams _ or Garden [?] plants
 herbaria.


 The Chairman of the Committee  &
 Wilkes behaved very well, and told me they
 were very desirous I should take it up.


 On Friday evening Wilkes came in, before
 we went to the President's, asked me to say
 what I would do. I told him at once
 what I would do (just what I had told
 Jane before we left Cambridge) & Wilkes
 at once accepted them, as I supposed he
 would.


 My terms were based on the
 supposition that there is 5 years work in
 preparing the collections left on hand for the
 press & in superintending them in printing, that
 is, at the rate in which the Expl. Exped.
 people, the best of them, work. They get
 $120 pr. month.


 I ask that, [?] $7200
 plus $300 for passage to and from London
 or Paris, & agree to do it up in 3 years
 or nearly from Jany. [Januray]1st, 1849, except there is
 printing of a vol. or so in the meanwhile.


 My drawings to be made by Sprague, &

        