
          [in pencil: Sept. 1846]


 Dear Doctor


 There is on the way to me
 from Trieste a box from Tommasini, 
 who you know makes most perfect 
 & handsome (even Oakesian) specimens & 
 names very authentically. Several 
 very full [added: (710 species in each)] sets of the plants of 
 Austral and littoral Illyria, for me 
 to exchange off. Oakes & myself 
 have pretty well supplied him
 & shall still further supply him
 with Northern plants. He asks 
 especially for Southern & Western. 
 I shall do something for him, by 
 giving Mr. Lowell one set, and 
 making him subscribe to Lindheimer
 additionally for this. But I 
 think you could make him up 
 a valuable parcel say of 400 to 
 500 species of South & West, and 
 would like to add to your herbarium 
 (which I believe is not rich plants
 of S.E. Europe), so full a set of fine &
        