
          lectures to arrange, dust to eject
 from the laboratory, unlabeled
 bottles to examine a thousand
 things to do. I shall only answer
 Dr Grays letter today. I send it to
 you with my answer, that you may
 read both. You see the wag threatens
 me with a Holtonia barbata! The
 ire of "The Duke" has not cured him
 yet. Mr Browne is out of his reach:
 unless indeed he should plead that
 the specific "Americana" would
 save the great Anglican from the
 joke of a [Bobbraunnea?]. I meant
 to have [signalized?] my Compositae
 without taking them from the case
 I have but three large bundles the
 Orchids in the first (west) vertical
 now, the Composites near the middle
 & the Leguminose near the last.
 I have just got news of our election
 & it gives me little satisfaction. Those
 K N's delight in astonishing us!
        