
          pay to $2.50 each, increasing my own risk 
 thereby. Sprague has discovered some new 
 quiddities about the position of the ovule in Ranunculacea.
 The raphe is dorsal in all of them with 
 pendulous ovules, also in Nelumbium. 
 He will go on very slowly. I cant hurry
 him. He has not yet taken up Croomia. 


 You have not told me about Chapman's 
 queer plant yet ! 


 You got my letter with Pickerings message. 
 Dana has promised to use any influence he may 
 have to have the botany thrown your hands.
 Unless Nuttall has arrived, which I do not 
 hear of, it is to [too] late for him till next fall.
 For his object was to secure 3 months absence out 
 of the present year, and 3 out of next!


 I am very hard at work. Do you go to P. [Princeton?]
 this week. I do not hear from any one of over there at all. 
 Love to them. 


 Please hand the annexed to Hastings, with 
 your part of the bill for Fl. Bras. [Flora Brasiliensis], viz. 1/6 of $44.21
 = $7.37, and the bills.


 Affectionately Yours 
 A. Gray
        