
          Smithsonian Inst
Nov. 26th 1856

My Dear Dr

I called this morning
on the Commissioner of Patents
and stated to him that you had
now in your possession a collection
of the grasses more perfect than
could be collected by any individual
in the course of some years - that
you would undertake to give
him a Report on the subject which
at least would be an indispensible
preliminary to any other investigation
which might be undertaken - that
you could give him such
        