
          which lies over the door of your mineral room.
 and I have no work in my possession that gives
 them all. I want the thickness of those in
 the Submedial & Inferior Orders ^ [inserted: only] that I may make
 a similar sketch for my lectures and if you
 can send me the numbers conveniently I
 shall be thankful.


 I went yesterday to the habitat of the
 [Frissilago?] gralmata, but find it nearly destitute
 of the plant. Only a single specimen had flowered
 the present year I did not see more than 20 or
 30 of the plants. It is in a dark evergreen swamp
 and as the trees are cut down the plant disappears.
 I shall try to cultivate it but probably
 shall fail.


 Respectfully yours


 Edward Hitchcock
        