
          Thanks for your letter 
 dear Doctor: to which I cannot 
 properly reply at this moment, 
 as it is very late. 


 The paper, made to meet 
 Fremont's wishes, it seems to 
 me is this, viz. to furnish 
 him with the names of the 
 characteristic plants, so far as 
 the remnant of his collection
 affords the means of so doing, 
 that he may mention them 
 properly, and with a scientific 
 air, in his report. New species 
 or genera, he could mention as 
 such, under names that you 
 could furnish. If you furnish 
 characters they could be given 
 in notes passim. This plan wd [would]
 give the whole a scientific air, 
 and much better serve his purpose 
 than an imperfect scientific report, 
        