
          Cambridge Tuesday Eveng. [Evening]


 30 June 1846


 My Dear Doctor


 Wishing to be doing 
 some rather light work for the 
 present, I took up the Scrophulariaceae
 a day or two ago, now 
 that I have a good many species 
 of ours growing here. But I am 
 to-day a good deal alarmed 
 on finding that I have here 
 only a part of the Scrophular. [Scrophulariaceae]
 of your herbarium that were 
 sent to Bentham! 


 Bentham returned them to 
 New York, and you brought or 
 sent the parcel (the whole 
 of it?) on to me. I have 
 never looked at them till yesterday.
 On examination I find the

        