
          Canada much to different localities, through 
the winter. Their return will probably be in 
the spring or summer. My daughter 
has a letter for you & a parcel, given weeks ago 
into her charge. I think she met lately in 
Cheshire some relative of yours whom you 
will be glad to hear about. This is 
very much a family letter I shall not 
venture to touch on botany, further 
than to say that our good-for-nothing 
collector Burke has, as yet done nothing 
for us in the Rocky Mountains in California 
& that by the Huds. Bay Co. [Hudson Bay Company] 
I have just recalled him as a useless 
man to us. Indeed to send out a 
man for such a purpose to so remote a 
region is very expensive & very hazardous, 
I mean as regards success. For happily 
our H.B.Co. [Hudson Bay Company] gives every facility for getting 
about. Dr. Gray tells me there is now 
a collector gone to Bogota wh. [which] delights me.
I think my daughter has some numbers 
of my son, Dr. Hooker's Flora Antarctica to 
trouble you to send on to Greene. If you 
desire to see that book I authorize you to 
        