
          Glasgow, Octr [October] 8th, 1825.

My dear Sir

I have this day been greeted by your
most welcome letter, which has further announced 
to me the arrival of a parcel of plans for me 
in the river. This parcel I shall obtain on Monday,
but as today is Saturday, I must send on 
board this day what little I have for you, or I 
shall lose the opportunity of sending the present 
month.

I wrote you a hasty letter in July & sent
you my paper on Hookeria, on Sabin's plants 
& Agardh's Systema algarum, a book not easily 
attainable, & which contains an arrangement of all 
that is known about algae. My paper on 
Parry's plants (which indeed is the most full 
of all the Arctic memoirs), was printed when I 
was in London, but is not yet published, because 
the Astronomer of the Voyage is not yet ready 
with his paper.

You will now have Brown's supplement 
to Parr'ys 1st voyage which you wished to have 
& which has been lying in my house for you 
nearly two months. I have been most anxious 
to send you some plants also; & now if 
I can find an hour or two to turn over some 
        