
          And [Answered]


 Monday. 11th July. 1834


 8.


 Dear Doctor


 Since your departure several memoranda 
 of more or less consequence have accumulated around me, and 
 (having not yet heard from you) I will now communicate them 
 together with whatever intelligence I think will interest you. 
 To begin with the most important. I have now (5 P.M.)
 just returned from your house where I found a parcel for 
 you (received by mail from Philadelphia. postage the 
 mere trifle of $1.14 1/2) with the Hamburg seal and the
 handwriting of our old correspondent Prof. [Professor] Lehmann. 
 Inspecting it to contain advices of packages of Plants or Books 
 I took the liberty to open it. I found 2 diplomas in high 
 Dutch. Shade of Leopoldina Carolinae Caesar. academiae naturae Curiosorum [Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum], hide your diminished head. and give 
 way to the K�nigliche Botanikhe [Botanische] Gesellschaft in Regensburg!
 which being interpreted means. I imagine, the Royal 
 Botanical Society of Regensburg. Now I know as little [added: of] Regensburg
 and the Regensburg people who have done us such honor as 
 a certain lady did of the famous King of Prussia; but 
 I ratherly think it means Ratisbon. Well. what is of much 
 greater consequence a note enclosed from Lehmann states that 
 since he has heard from you he had sent, I copy verbatim
 "1. Diplomas of the Leopold. Carol. acad. [Leopoldino-Carolina academia] for you and Dr. Gray
 2. A compleat set of the Linnaea, in two different sendings 
 3. The most recent Volume of the Acta acad. Leopold. Carol. Nat. Cur [Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum]  together with Flora Brasiliensis & Nees of Esenbeck's [crossed out: illegible] Erinnerungen 
 [crossed out: dem Ries] aus dem Riesengebirge &c. All of which I 
 hope will have safely reached you." Now what has become of these 
 & which I translate "Reminiscences of the great chain of Mountains"!
        