
          or covers for duplicates numbered
 them & put the numbers on my
 catalogue of duplicates. Now I
 have taken a book of 300 pages
 (Same No with my cases) & on each
 page have copied the labels of the
 duplicates in a case. I have further
 established a pile of plants which
 I do not want of only one of a 
 species. Of this I make no catalogue
 any one may take any plant he
 wishes but it is not accessible
 to Correspondents. I have generally
 2 species in a case, & from 2 to 100
 specimens of each.


 So much self gratulation I allow
 myself on the completion of a
 long task. All this time I have been
 hoping to see you, never thinking 
 that the Cholera nonsense would
 keep you off. I want to see you amazingly _
 have never been so long
 from you since I came east. Will
 you not be at Cambridge Do, I
 beg you show yourself. Some
        