
          your unlecture-going New Yorkers. 
 Would it be better to get 
 up for him a cozy audience, 
 such as would crowd very full
 your largest room at Med. Coll. (Medical College]
 and so have him lecture under 
 the direct auspices of Crosby St. [Street]
 chiefly to Medical & Scientific 
 men & amateurs? 


 To my surprise I met
 Pickering still in Boston on 
 Saturday, which accounts for 
 your not [crossed out: having] seeing him, 
 and as to hearing from him by 
 letter, that you know is an 
 unusual thing. 


 I enclose a line from 
 Dana. As to the Botany 
 matter at W. [Washington] we could not 
 expect any more speedy action
        