
          to retire from the anatomical chair. So we 
 have some hopes of fixing Dr. Jeffries Wyman
 here in Cambridge, if not also for the Medical 
 School in Boston, the latter doubtful.
 Meanwhile the Corporation has ventured to 
 announce our projected Scientific School, 
 and events seem to favor its coming into real 
 operation before long. Under these circumstances 
 it becomes the more important that I should be 
 ready to teach practical botany and have a
 Florula for the purpose, however imperfect. 
 The time occupied with it, too, will now mostly occur
 while I must be occupied with College work, which 
 always distract too much to allow me to work at 
 Flora, which requires coolness, continued attention &
 absence from flurry. I worked hard at that
 up to the first of this month. It must now 
 lay over till summer, so that I can take 
 time for the [mss [manuscript]?] of Campanulaceae &c., and
 the other orders. I dislike the idea of making 
 this present exertion, especially while so much is 
 on my hands; but it is a conjecture that 
 must not be allowed to pass; it would be so 
 difficult, hereafter, to recover lost ground.
        