
          Thanks for your letter of the 17th-18th. 
 I shall feel nearer you, if you come to the city, 
 and shall be truly glad if you, in that case 
 can dispose of the property at Princeton for what it 
 cost, including expenses laid out on the house &c. 
 I partake of the feeling, perhaps a prejudice against 
 Princeton, and you will feel less at home 
 there now that Henry is gone. The others are
 some of them most excellent men, but not likely to 
 sympathize heartily with scientific men. 


 Did I tell you that Sullivants writes that 
 he has at last been asked to do up the Musci,
 for the Expl. Exped. [Exploring Expedition]. 


 As to Wilkes he does not 
 know what the State of the Botany is. Tuckerman 
 has done only the Lichens. The Ferns &c
 were given out to Breckenridge, to keep them out 
 of Rich's hands. Now I know that though B. [Brackenridge]
 as the collector would like to be associated in the 
 working up, he will not undertake to do the science
 himself. Pickering too told me that he surely 
 would work up no part of the collections himself. 
 He said he would also make use of my 
 statement, that it will not do to publish Rich's
        