
          of some 750 pages will soon be off my hands.
 Thus situated, I cannot now study those plants of
 Emory at all. Had I not better send them
 back to you, nerely noting what I now know
 about them, and indicating genera &c., which
 may perhaps, with what you may add, suffice for your
 list. Let me know and I will do this by next
 day after, if George be convalescent or comfortable.


 It is clear that I cannot hope for for time enough,
 nor indeed have I scarcely energy and uninterrupted
 time enough to select [added: plants for drawg [drawing]] & superintend Sprague, & name
 them, within a fortnight.


 I am having Tuckerman's Lichens printed in
 Proceedings of Amer. [American] Academy.


 Not having heard from Henry, I should like to
 know how he is getting on with Smiths. Inst. [Smithsonian Institution].


 Going to Cambridge to-day, I found Agassiz
 had called, but I have not yet seen him.


 I did not know that Nuttall was in the 
 country.


 Kooskooskie plants should settle one or two of
 Pursh's (Lewis & Clark's) not yet well known.


 Either Miquel, or some one else, has been writing


 [writing added vertically in the left margin with a different pen:
 "I have kept the printer at work going [?] at Introduction, Index [?] and
 my chubby duodecimo]

        