
          Cambridge Saturday Morning. 27th August.


 My dear Doctor


 Your welcome letter reached me last evening,
 and I will devote to reply the remainder of this sheet, which was 
 already filled. I must of course be very brief. I shall not go to the 
 White Mts [Mountains] until after next week. Tuckerman is to return next week, 
 & I hope can be induced to accompany us. But, above all I expect to 
 hear from our English friends thro [through] him. I have had no letters 
 from England, or anywhere abroad, since I left you, except a hasty 
 one from Bentham stating that he had just prepared his mss. [manuscript] 
 on Polemoniaceae [added: for [D.C.? Modr.?]] and asking for any notes we may have, if we have 
 yet studied the order. I learn from Journals that Menzies 
 is dead. Why has Hooker been so long silent? My letters arriving 
 at New York, all go to W. & P. [Wiley & Putnam].


 As to Webster's affair, perhaps he does not mention in his letter 
 to Henry, that he persisted in going on with his reprint of Liebig's 
 first work although Silliman's Edition was announced by W.
 & P.  [Wiley & Putnam]. long before Websters, securing it to the former according to 
 the courtesies of the trade. As Webster persisted in breaking through
 the rule, I don't see how he can complain if [crossed out: his [?] to]
 he finds his example followed upon occasion. Wiley besides 
 did not know that Webster was going on with his ed. [edition] when he took 
 up this new work. Webster has an arrangement with Gregory, 
 the translator; but I suppose none with Liebig. 


 I hear and know nothing of Onoclea obtusilobata. Pray what 
 is the evidence that it is has been found in this region? 


 Klotrsch's notes etc. and Euphorbiaceae & Empetraceae sent in his
 letter, I hear have been published in Wiegmann's Archiv.
 Tuckerman, in the Aug. [August] no. [number] of Journal of Botany, which I saw 
 yesterday in Boston (tho' mine has not yet come to hand) has taken 
 up his (Klotrsch's) Tuckermannia, [crossed out: and] (Empetrum Conradii) 
 and made of it Oakesia Conradii. He found it in herb. [herbarium] Lamb. [Lambert]
 from Newfoundland (Cormack), named by Don "Ceratiola
 ericoides"! Lambert's herb. [herbarium] has been sold, in parcels! 


 I trust you will retain specimens of as many of Nicollet's plants 
 as possible. The new, especially, which we will post up in due 
 time. Any you can save for me wil be thankfuly received. I am 
 going on with the Compositae, having now Gnaphalium on hand. I trust 
 you will have the Lobeliaceae & Campanulaceae ready for the printer, by
 the time I have the Comp. [Compositae] in like condition. 


 I have as yet had no opportunity to make any arrangement 
 with the Presdt [President] for getting plants, he has been so much occupied.
 As yet I dare not risk giving an order to Knieskern. Your plan of Knieskerns 
 supplying the gardens abroad with live plants, will so far as 
 it goes, bring him into direct competition with me, as I have already 
 written to many gardens, offering to supply them as far as possible, 
 and to take their [added: duplicate] plants in return. I should like to assist 
 him, whenever I can. His dried specimens whenever distributed 
        