
          to relinquish some salary, but that any proposition
 I may make will include the expenses
 of a voyage to London & Paris and a residence for
 at least 6 months abroad. In that way, by
 the aid I might receive from Hookers herbarium and Benthams
 general knowledge -


 I should also look to you to
 elaborate families or floras besides the ones you are now
 engaged in. Wilkes talks very fairly & [liberally?]
 but vaguely. Will you let me know if one were
 to take the whole remaining work in the [?], what
 I ought to ask for the job, for I should prefer
 it in that form.


 I will not engage in it without every
 thing is made very satisfactory all around.
 Henry [wrote?] me last week, asking me to
 prepare one of the reports for the Smithsonian &
 I should be glad to do it (aided by Sprague)
 but shall support a somewhat different plan
 from Henry's and more time. Before Wilkes
 came I had made up my mind that I must
 have a curator. I cannot do the needful mechanical
 labor which my collection and undertakings require.
 The proposals of Henry & Wilkes [?] therefore
 to afford me the means of doing this, perhaps


 When you come on here at the close of
 June you shall look over Wright's Texan plants,
 and see and take what you want.


 If you have received my parcel, pray
 tell me what you think of the Genera,


  
        