
          with them for he was present when I opened 
the box. How delighted I am that you 
are expecting much from Georgia Florida &c.
Drummond had thought of coming down by 
Florida, but I have rather dissuaded him 
from it, since I had your letter. I wish he 
could reach the mountains of N. [New] Mexico; but 
he says the Indians are very hostile. Do you 
find much that is good among the grasses
& Cyperaceae you had from here. I shall 
be glad of your names of them. Has Dr. 
Gray published his promised work on 
grasses? Scouler has left us, having been 
appointed to succeed Gieseke [Giesecke] as a professor 
of geology in Dublin Royal Institution;
& he has given great satisfaction.

I shall be glad to hear Dr. Barratt's opinion 
upon the willows. The [Corolliflorae?] of his
British American collection now engage any 
attention & thus will come the [monorlila?]
[?]. I hope you are given some portion 
of your time to botany though chemistry is
perhaps most your hobby. Is there no chance 
of your giving [an?] with the Flora of the northern 
& middle United States? We do want 
such a work very much of America. Boott 
was urging Greene to publish a work like English 
Botany with plates of Amn [American] plants but
the outlay would be enormous & perhaps there
        