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 Monday 


 My dear friend 


 Thanks for the numbers from Fremont's 
 list; which came to hand just as the proofs were lying before 
 me. 


 Have you not made a mistake about no. 414 (1843) "Encampment 
 on the Arkansan" &c., and copied from the 1844 list? 
 The plant is not a shrub, but a low herb (Pyrrocoma).
 *Did Fremont go up the Arkansan on his way out?


 Save me specimens, when they will bear it from 
 Fremont's plants. Of the first collection (except Compositae) 
 I only shared after Carey! 


 There is a dely [delay] about sending me on wood-cuts from 
 New York, which is very vexatious, has suspended the printing 
 here, and is going to trouble me just when I wish least to 
 be troubled with anything extraneous. 


 As to the Smithsonian affair, it may be well to keep i [it]
 in view, but if you can reasonably count upon $2500 p [per]
 annum, in your present situations (but is not that too sanguine 
 an estimate?) You would scarcely improve your circumstances by
 any thing likely to turn up at Washington.


 Mr. Adams sends kind regards. 


 I remain, faithfully Yours 


 A. [Asa] Gray


 *[crossed out: illegible] The reference in my letter is correct. Fremont does not call the 
 plant "a shrub", but says it forms "bushes", which may mean an herbaceous
 plant with a burly look, (like Lespedeza). He went up the Arkansan
 on his way out.

        