
          they were all right, I told him the specimens 
 were for himself, he seemed very glad to have them, 
 and I fear has distributed them ere now. I told him 
 he must write to Knieskern, however, & give him the 
 information he desired. He said he had no names to 
 alter &c. but would write. I am sorry they did 
 not go to Carey, who knows them quite as well as I. 
 Write me at once what to do. If Knieskern has the
 same thinkgs at home, named as he sent those, he
 gains nothing by having the specimens back, as
 the names were left unchanged. I feel worried
 about it.


 The parcels for me, if small, I think might come
 in a box that John Carey will soon be sending to
 me from Banks St., containing all my Grasses & [Cyperella?]
 (He goes to Buffalo in a week or so); but perhaps it 
 has best come by express, or go to Wiley & Putnam, 
 who may send in boxes to Boston booksellers.


 You are certainly booked for a set of Musci
 Alleghanaensis  direct from Sullivant, & if not, (which 
 there is no doubt of whatever) you shall have one of the sets 
 which will fall to me. The printing is delaying while 
 proofs are exchanged between S. [Sullivant] & myself. 


 Dr. Wyman is at Richmond. [Crossed out: Sill. [Silliman]] The editorial 
 in the Advertiser is capitally done. While it tries hard to
 shield Silliman entirely, it, by republishing his letter, does
 in the quietest way set him out in the way that letter, 
 and the indomitable alacrity of involving himself in every humbug 
 afloat, deserved. I wrote to Princeton two 
 days ago. George sends his best regards.
        