
          I more than once mentioned them
 specifically to Hooker, as not having 
 been sent to either of us or to Greene,
 & so (as he took no notice,
 I ordered them [added: for] myself through W. &
 P. [Wiley & Putnam]. Your later missing 
 numbers of London Jour. [Journal of] Botany
 I think you should ask Hooker for. 
 Indeed you might well ask him 
 for all of them. 
 Your Annals & Mag. [Magazine of] Natural 
 Hist. [History] like mine, leaves off 
 just where Hooker left that journal. 
 Linnaea, the parcel I sent fills
 your blanks. 
 Index sem. St. Petersburgh [Index seminum, quae Hortus Botanicus Imperialis Petropolitanus pro mutua commutatione offert]. 
 I got a year ago a new set
 complete which I have had bound,
 & I gave my duplicates to Boston Soc.
 Nat. Hist. [Society of Natural History]. Could some of yours have 
 been among them? Perhaps so, though
 certainly your name was not on them. 
 When you come we will see at the 
 Socy [Society] if we can recover them.


 DC. Pl. rar. Geneve [Augustin De Candolle's Plantes rares du Jardin de Gen�ve]. I had some 
 duplicate nos. of which were given [crossed out: me]
 by Boott. I have given them to Boston Socy [Society] &
 have only
        