
          him to do. Until you shall have 
 3 months work ready for him, it would 
 not be well for you to take him to N.Y. [New York]. 
 Let him do two or three here first, 
 till you are ready. 


 I have paid him $35 for 
 those Mex. [Mexican] Boundary plants he has lately
 drawn, 4 plants, & should like the 
 money back one of these days. 


 Please tell me what the Extras of 
 Whipple's Report are to cost, about, and 
 I will say how many I would like to 
 have. We had best say 100 
 copies & divide them & the expense between 
 us. What am I to pay for the 
 extras of Beckwith Report, & Pope's? 
 and where are the plates of the latter.


 As to title of Whipple's Report.
 You have done an immense deal 
 of work on it, and it is due to yourself 
 & more agreeable to me that your 
 name alone should appear on the title. 


 I believe I roughly did the early 
 part of the Coll. [Collection] ([Fort.?] Smith to Rio Grande)
 up to end of Compositae. But as they 
 are incorporated with the rest, it is best
        