
          Dear Doctor


 Yours of the 20th reached me duly, as also 
 Hooker's letter. I make brief memoranda of your enquiries. 
 I have not yet looked at the seeds of the Ruellia. These 
 things are noticed in very many Acanthaceae by Don and 
 Kippist in Linn. Trans [Linnean Transactions], a few years back. In the 
 breaking up of the genera I believe we have neither Justicia nor 
 Ruellia left in the U.S. [United States]. It is in the Linnaea that you saw some 
 Amer. [American] Acanthaceae described by Nees.


 Buckley's paper must be ready soon, if it is to go to in 
 the July no. [number] of Silliman. The April is already printed, 
 all but, and is so crowded as to have no miscellanies. If 
 Buckley will send an advertisement-shaped offer of his 
 [bones?] for sale, I will insist upon its insertion. Silliman 
 is here. I have heard him lecture, organic chemistry.
 small potatoes! Benny says you may get Endicott
 to lithograph the Buckleya, as cheap as you can, 
 & strike off 1250 copies for him, & as many extra 
 as you want extra copies of the article, & send the bill to New 
 Haven. I hope of course that Bailey will write on raphidic 
 crystals. Has he not the 3d vol. [third volume] of my Meyen? 


 Presl's figure is not Ragiopteris obtusilobata, but R. [Ragiopteris] onocleoides 
 & from [Niled.?] Herb. [Herbarium], the hist. [history] of which you know. You 
 must send to Hooker, & let his man Fitch copy Schkuhr's
 figure; for the work is not in this country. 


 Have you yet reported on Fremont's plants? 


 I laid before Benny a plan for collaborating Sill. [Silliman] Journal, 
 entirely on my own responsibility, naming to him Henry & Bache for
 Physical Science, Dana for Mineralogy, Peirce for Mathematical 
 Science, Wyman for Zoology, &c., insisting on 3 points. 1� [primo] that
 now [no] new collaborators should be introduced but by the consent of these.
 2. That original communications in these [added: illegible] departments should pass [thro? [through?]]
 the hands of the proper collaborator and be rejected at his discretion.
 Their reviews &c. shall be signed by their initials, &c [added: 3. They shall be supplied with such journals as they want by the Editor.] I have
 seen him but for a moment since he has laid it before the 
 [Father?]. I see, I think, that they are disposed to catch at so much
 of the plan as suits them. I suspect they think that the rise in the 
 character of the Journal, coincident with the appearance of these names on 
 the title-page, would be so much glory taken from them. Benny [nearly?]
 said that they thought the plan might be adopted in part, or its advantages
 secured, & [crossed out: prop] says he will write to Henry & Bache on the subject. 
 I wish you therefore to speak to Henry and say two things, 
        