
          Were they returned to you, to be 
 estimated on for the engraver? 
 Could they have been sent 
 to Prestele? 


 I will help you without
 delay with any remainder 
 of Whipple's ([crossed out: Bigelows?] Bigelow's)
 collection you wish, only 
 send them on. Also a 
 set of the plants you have 
 written out, as far as there are 
 specimens I could have. 
 Any I do not need I will 
 return, for Bigelow, or other 
 claimant.


 I have got a guess in 
 my head about the family 
 to which "Canotia" belongs,
        