
          establishment, & may there be heard of &
his qualifications too.

It is a pity you could not have
visited Cambridge during the meeting
of scientific men; & I think it a still
greater pity that you cannot be with
us next June when the meeting will
be at Edinburgh. I am pleased
with the account of what you saw in
London. I hope you were as much
gratified in Paris. You are in [high?]
[lush?] to get Brown to undertake
some of your interesting plants from
the Rocky Mountains. I know he
would be pleased with a sight of
the specimens.

I recollect quite well putting some
bundles of plants into your boxes
which I hastily judged to belong
to you, because I saw your handwriting
upon them. I had no intention
I assure you of troubling you
with them, but now that things are
        