
          Thursday Morning 


 My Dear Friend, 


 I have been for a day or two principally 
 busy in the assorting and labelling of duplicates, & have made 
 up parcels for Shuttleworth, Kunze, Schlechtendal, the Vienna 
 Herbarium, Zuccanini, & Tommasini. 


 As to Torreya, I had an opportunity to glance merely 
 at a late volume of the Bavarian Academy transactions, 
 which passed through my hands, which contains 
 an article on Japanese Conifera by Zuccanini. I 
 meant to have looked at it again, but it is now too late,
 until we receive the volume for the Academy here. It is 
 on the way. But I notice that while the Taxus nucifera 
 Thun. [Thunberg] is made a Torreya (as I told Zucc. [Zuccatini] in 1839 it should be)
 the T. [Taxus] nucifera, Wall. [Wallich], he has left in Taxus, on account 
 of the staminate flowers, as you remarked. He figures it as 
 Taxus Wallichiana.


 I put up the drawings for Prestele in proper 
 order, enclosing yours in your letter. Were the proofs 
 from Emerson's stone sent you by Prestele, or taken off 
 in New York? What price does Prestele 
 mention as asked by the lithographer at Buffalo for 
 striking off? Please answer these two queries in your next, 
 as it is quite desirable for me to know.


 Herbert is quite mistaken about my having large drawings 
 made yet. But Sprague will begin next month. 
 Besides the Humboldtian Geographical things, I think of 
 preparing, with what I have, illustrations of about 7 lectures 
 on a sort of passing survey of ther most striking natural orders,
 (Phanogs. [Phanerogams], of course.  I did the Cryptog's [Cryptogams] last year), dwelling only 
 on the more popularly interesting. What think you?
        