
          Dear Doctor T. [Torrey]


 I will bring you the illustrations early 
 next month. You forget that Engelmannia was first 
 published in Nuttall's memoir on Compositae,  and overlooked by 
 Endlicher, when in a former supplement he posted up these
 genera. It has just the age of Tuckermmania, Nutt. [Nuttall], [crossed out: by?]
 which Tuckerman gave precedance [precedence] to Tuckermmania, Kl. [Klotzsch] & 
 Endl. [Endlicher] adopted. I have just got the 2nd part of Adr. [Adrien]
 Jussieu's Introduction to Botany. It is admirable, full of 
 good wood cuts, and costs very little. I have just received 
 another beautiful French Introduction, that of 
 Maout, on a somewhat peculiar but good plan.
 The cuts, I learn are from drawings made by DeCaisne.


 In haste 
 Yours ever 
 A. [Asa] Gray

        