
          it. I hope this summer to visit a new locality
 of this plant, which I discovered a year or two since, when I
 hope to verify my former observations upon it.


 I have done very little the past year in natural
 History, except to read some of the modern European publications
 & write a review or two of Conybeare & Phillips Geology of England & of
 Bucklands Reliquiae Diluvianae _ Nor shall I be able to do
 much in my present situation, if my health is not better. I
 rejoice however in learning what others are doing in bringing
 to light the [arcana?] of nature.


 Respectfully [?] your freind
 & servant


 Edward Hitchcock


 [at lower left: J Torrey M.D.]
  
        