
          first completed a contrivance for strapping it to my shoulders
 which is so small that I can put it all into my vest pocket.
 This morning two letters were laid on my table; one was from
 Dr Mead. It informed me of Dr Grays translation from the quasi
 professorship of Michigan to that of Harvard, & also of your
 removal to Princeton. This will I presume prevent a serious
 delay in this. This is essential as I expect an appointment from
 government to an Indian School 30 m. W. of Prairie du
 Chien before I can get an answer from you. I wish to take
 measures to get a box from N.Y. before I leave civilization &
 I do not feel safe to send on for things till I have made sure
 of going. I suppose I must be there early in Sept. I have thus
 far made much less progress ^ [inserted: in botany] than I expected. My duties occupy
 but 5 hours of my time but it exhausts all my energies.
 Hence I make apparently no progress except merely the mechanical
 part of collecting.


 6 June. I will now try to get off my letter. My excursion
 was a circuit of about 20 miles & very successful. I found a
 grand locality of Nelumbium,^ [inserted: not in flower yet] I think, pentpetalum, Found
 Clematis viorna, Diospyrus [Diospyros], Amorpha fruticulosa, Gratiola missourriana [missouriana]
 Gymnocladus, Ruellia cilliosa [ciliosa] Euonymus atropurpurens, etc. etc.
 I saw a letter from Dr Gray to Dr Mead, in which he said he sent
 to Europe all the plants he could spare. Considering your
 interests united I resolved to make out a hundred or two
 of plants for you. Dr Mead will be sending some & I will send
 them at the same time. If you wish some Nelumbium I wish
 you would tell me how to put them up. They will be in
 flower I hope when I get your answer. I entreat you to
 write with as little delay as possible as I fear I shall be
 waiting for your answer. I wish you to answer these
 questions. Did you get the $10? Can 
 you spare me herbarium paper of the same size as yours? At what price? Can
 I get both that & the Flora by writing to N.Y.? How? I think I
 shall have a box sent from Wilde & Merriam's, Looking glass
 Merchants 134 Chatham St. [crossed out, illegible] I hope my residence among
 the Indians will not be without results of some value.
  
        