
          To Dr. Torrey


 Tuesday Evening, Oct. 1. 


 Thanks, Dear Doctor, for your letter of Saturday, which 
 apprised me of Henry's safe arrival. I felt quite at ease
 when he left, having made arrangements with Adams'
 Express-man to take him in special charge, and if 
 not called for on the arrival of the boat to send him up to 
 212, Fourth St. The last I saw of him he was mounted on 
 the waggon [wagon] with the Express-man, in high glee! I think
 with you that Mr. Gorham Abbott behaved shabbily.


 I am about half-fixed at the Garden, and shall 
 probably sleep there to-morrow night. Were it not that 
 my woman-kind has disappointed me, we should dine 
 there to-morrow.


 I duly received the parcel by Express. It did not 
 contain the drawings from Endicott's. I would send 
 the plants you propose to Bentham. I wish especially you 
 would send me the Compositae. The unfinished appendix still 
 offers a loop-hole. I want to see if this set contains Lessingia.
 A specimen of that genus (which I have long wished to see)
 I have just received in a very choice package from [Franz Josef] Ruprecht
 of the Russian Imperial Academy, which confirms a suspicion
 I entertained at the time the last part of Flora was written,
 tho' I believe I did not hint at it. I will now take the first good 
 opportunity to make a correction that Hook & Arn. [Hooker & Arnott] ought to have 
 seen and made. 


 Dr. [Jeffries] Wyman wishes much to accompany Fremont if he 
 goes on another journey, entirely at his own expenses, if 
 need be. As his object is entirely zoology, he will not interfere with 
 Fremont's botanical plans, while the results would redound to 
 Fremont's advantage. He is a most amiable, quiet, and truly 
 gentlemanly fellow, retiring to a fault, but full of nerve, and 
 surely is to be the great man of this country in the highest 
 branches of Zoology and Comparative anatomy. I therefore very 
 strenuously solicit your influence at court in his behalf. 


 I am glad that Fremont takes so much personal 
 interest in his botanical collections. He will do all the more. 
 I should like to see his plants, especially the Compositae & Rosaceae. 
 As to Conifers he should have the Taxodium sempervirens, so 
 imperfectly known, and probably a new genus. Look quick at 
 it, for it is probably in Coulter's coll. [collection] which Harvey is working 
 at. 

        