
          I suppose that will be the easiest way for me to 
 make pretty interesting lectures. The 5 last will 
 be enough for me to write out for Geographical Botany. 
 I am asked to give two lectures at Salem the 
 coming winter: they give $20 apiece. If I have 
 anything quite convenient I shall give them. 


 I got none of the Moscow Socy. [Society] plants. 
 By the way my collection of [Theodor] Kotschy's Nubian 
 plants, I found on laying out for gluing to afford a 
 considerable number of duplicates: the specimens were 
 very good and full. I have laid aside the bundle of 
 duplicates for you, and will send it with the first 
 parcel. If you get a chance to sell your 
 bargain at Princeton at an advance I hope you will 
 accept it, for I do not much like the idea of your being 
 fixed permanently at Princeton. At all events I hope you 
 will lease all the land except that about the house, for a 
 term of years, under conditions which will require it to be fertilized
 and left in good condition, for you will find the management 
 of it yourself a regular bill of expense and a constant 
 annoyance. 


 Will your friend at Hights-town send me another 
 box of Lygodium? I want to send much abroad. He must 
 skin the turf rather thinner, and take it in small patches, thus 
 he can get a great many plants into a small box. 


 I shall go to work at my Lectures very 
 soon. I am clearing off everything for that purpose. 
 But ere long I must go to Plymouth to dig up 
 Oakesia, and other plants for Loddiges, &c.
        