
          now quite necessary to do this 
 at once. It will [guild?] no dividend
 to speak of: for it must be put 
 so low as to drive Wood off the 
 field, while, at the same time, 
 it will cost considerable labor. 
 But it will hold the field till, 
 in due time we are ready 
 with an United States Manual. 


 To make sure against anticipations, 
 & to fill up a blank 
 sheet in our Proceedings of Amer. [American]
 Acad. [Academy] now commenced, I have 
 printed off the characters of the 
 new Texan Lindheimeran Compositae.
 I will send you a copy next
 week.


 If you will write out your
 notes on Batis, I will have them 
 printed here. We may use this
 quiet mode for securing many 
 small things, or others that we can
 not at once fully elaborate.
        