
          (c. 1842)


 College _ Monday morning


 Dear Sir


 I have just received the third proof sheet
 to page 456. I am not quick to detect merely typographical
 errors but noticed thse _ P433 pungens & obtuse P434
 bend for head (caput?) I would have translated arista "the
 head or ear of grain." Same p. Aristida dichotoma. P441
 after Withering dele (.) P445 last line littoralis. P4453 Arrhenatherum
 & just below avenaceum. Besides these I
 suspect an error in the authorities for [Urolepis?]
 aristulata "Spreng. [?] cuta." Curtopogon (P434) if correctly
 quoted is bad. I suppose the name Muhlenbergia sylvatica
 was a joint effort_ but did Dr Gray claim his share in the
 Gram & Cyp? If not I conceive the author of the NY. Flora
 ought not to give it him.


 Several works are quoted which are not enumerated
 at the beginning.


 Before speaking of derivations I wish, pace tua, to
 advance one principle of which I am very confident _ as
 you know I often am of an opinion that may be entirely
 wrong. I think the scientific writer ought not to step into
 the place of the etymolygist but when he has carried the
 scientific name back to the classical word from which
 it was actually derived he should leave it there & let 

        