
          Botany as you like to spare. 


 If Wendell charges you for 
 the sheets as he did for me for those 
 of my Japan Botany, the 
 bill will be heavier than one 
 likes or can well stand. 


 I hope the sheets of Pl. [Plates] Whipple
 are not trimmed off. See 
 how Gunison [Gunnison] [added: Beckwith] & Pope's Reports 
 are [spiraled?] thereby, the letter
 press much smaller than the 
 plates. To cut these down as they
 must be in binding will make a
 bad business, spoil all the good looks. 
 There is no difficulty in having 
 the sheets delivered folded but 
 not trimmed. I asked Wendell
 to do so with Japan Botany, and 
 they have come so. 


 Now dont say the Whipple 
 letter-press is all trimmed, 
 like Pope's, & Beckwith! 


 I long to get back to the N. [North]
 Amer. [American] Botany; but it cannot 
 be for a good while. 


 A copy of plates of Exploring 
 Expedition is ready for you,
        