
          [?] with solicitations to banish
the thought entirely from your mind.

Cannot you do, for the botany
of the United States, what [Danes?] has
done for the geology? Give a general
view of the peculiarities of the flowers
of this continent  - of what has been done
in the way of the description of our plants
and of what remains to be done?

I know the association of the
meeting will be exceedingly painful
but I also know that you have
the fortitude and the [consolations?]
which will enable you to endure
the trial.

Do not I beg of you think
of not giving the address. There
have been but two omissions
        