
          made up hereafter. The Dec. [December] no. [number] of the 
 London Journal of Botany contains a very brief 
 notice of Botanical Text-Book, &c. The Dec. [December] no. [number]
 of Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [Annals & Magazine of Natural History] (of wh. [which] Prof. [Professor] Balfour is 
 the botanical editor), contains a very complimentary notice  
 accompanied with a few judicious selections, which show
 that the writer has looked it over carefully, and 
 winds up by terming it the best elementary treatise 
 (as to structural botany) in the English language. 
 So easy is it to get praise where it is not particularly 
 deserved! 


 As to Buckley's plants, if Casey still immovable, 
 we must help him out ourselves. I will do anything
 I can. I think it would be well to let Endicott 
 attempt the Buckleya. 


 I have done up Hieracium to my entire satisfaction; 
 but have a singular story to tell you about 
 HoKalmii. I am well satisfied with Nabalus,
 tho. [though] I fear I have admitted more species that 
 you will altogether fancy: but I feel confident.


 I am really disappointed in the Med. [Medical] College, I 
 thought it would have been much better. I am 
 not sure that you would not best secure your 
 comfort by taking $1500 and a house at Princeton; 
 unless some other prospect should open as I wish there 
 would. I wish you had the Lowell lectures, instead 
 of me, But in any case I dislike to think of 
 your abandoning Botany, and trust you will not 
 come to that conclusion.

        