
          and Oregon collections, which will 
 serve as a sufficient entering wedge. 
 Also write to Drayton at Washington. 


 We see no reason why you 
 should not have some good 
 botanical work out of this, and 
 get good pay too. 


 Pickering is to tell Drayton, when 
 he goes on, that he should 
 arrest the engraving of the botanical 
 plates, none of which are the thing 
 now to be depended on, as to the 
 analyses. In haste 


 Yours ever 
 A. Gray
        