
          Beverly, Friday Evening Oct. 1. 


 My Dear Friend 


 My last letter crossed yours of the 27th 
 Sept. But I will not delay to answer some of your 
 queries at once.


 Dr. Jay, I think has Freycinets Voyage. It is not 
 at Cambridge, nor Boston either, unless in the Library of
 the late Dr Binney, about which I will enquire.


 I will speak privately to Horsford about Gerhart's
 charge, and hear what he says of it.


 The Stirp. Dec. [Novarum stirpium decas I-X] of Endlicher was a duplicate, &
 therefore yours.


 You never had Bongard Veg. Sitcha [Observations sur la v�g�tation de l'ile de Sitcha] in your
 own library. The copy we used to have belonged to
 the Lyceum, New York, belonging to their set of the 
 St. Petersburgh Trans. [M�moires de l'Academie imp�riale des sciences de St. P�tersbourg]. I brought it with me to 
 Cambridge & have it still, but will send it to you, 
 that you may return it when you have done with 
 it, to the owners. I shall have a parcel to 
 send you, for Greene has notified me of the arrival 
 of some London Journal of Botany from Hooker, for
 you and me.


 As to the class-illustrations, belonging to the 
 College, I must  either send you those here, or you
 must send those you hold back to me: for, unfortunately
 I am now in the midst of a course of recitations on Botany
 with the sophomores, and in a small room too, having
 been obliged to surrender the Rumford Lecture-room to Prof. H.
        