
          so that I can use few of the Lowell Institute [paintings?]
 You see, therefore, that I cannot well spare the
 small ones, imperfect as they are. 


 I had 2 Mercantile Journals sent to me, 
 containing the reports pretty fully of the later days of 
 the "Naturals'" goings. On looking for them to 
 mail for you I could nowhere lay hands on them. 
 Perhaps my brothers have them. All went off with 
 spirit, and also with harmony throughout, the latter 
 a novel feature, I am told.


 We have had a pleasant time with Henry
 and hope we shall see him again "down East," next 
 year. He departed for Albany yesterday afternoon.


 The action of the Medical Faculty at Philada [Philadelphia], after 
 admitting, as they did that you had higher claims to 
 that chair the Rogers, does not raise them in my 
 opinion, but it affords additional reasons why you should 
 feel satisfied with the result.


 My compositor has been sick, and delayed the 
 printing a little. The Carices by Carey are now in
 hand. I have the Grasses now to do. I am trying to 
 understand the Tribes, in which Kunth & Nees do not
 well agree, nor are the characters at all clear and 
 easy. I want to follow out Brown's idea, of dividing all
 into 2 series, the Panicoideae with a 2-flowered spikelet,
 the lower imperfect or abortive, and the Poaceae, with the
 upper florets imperfect, if any. Nees, in effect, does it, in his
 Gram. Fl. Afric. Australis [Florae Africae australioris illustration monographicae. I, Gramineae]. But then why does Kunth
 refer Alopecurus &c. with spikelets strictly one-flowered and
 no rudiments, to Phalarideae, which have the one or two lower

        