
          Recd. Jany. [Received January] 2nd.

New Orleans Decr. 16th 34

My Dear Sir

I have just recd [received] your valued favor of the 29th
& 1st inst. [instant]. My list of articles was made out with yours
before me & I omitted only such as I either had or
could get here easily, or thought best to dispense with
this season. Tubes retook 2 receivers, except such as
I mentioned I had already obtained. Quick-silver is I
believe as cheap here as in New York, but your “pneumatic
trough complete price $60.” I feel the strongest
assurance is on the list sent. I hope, on looking over it
again, you have found it. At all events do not fail
to send it by the first vessel. The common mirrors you
mention are such as I meant, as I shall take your advice
and get a good set from Paris. I have not seen Rud's
chemistry & the plan of using demijohns for gas holders
is new to me, but it at once strikes me as feasible & excellent.
I shall send by the first opportunity my last portfolio for this
season. The Laboratory will necessarily occupy all my spare
time this winter. My fall collections have been limited
owing to the long drouth [drought], which in this climate alters
the plants so much as to render them useless as specimens.
You will find in the present port-folio several new (not hitherto
forwarded) grasses, but I regret to say my orchidae [Orchideae] are
all destroyed. I shall endeavor to supply the defects next
year. Is the “Uniola pubescens” entirely new, or recently
described? I am glad you are satisfied my scirpus is
new. I have no objection to your name; tho' I am sorry
the one proposed, which struck me as appropriate, is preoccupied. 
Cyperus No. 14 of the present portfolio grows
in damp woods, it may be a variety of [Cyperus] erythrorhizos but
if so it is much altered; the specimen is a good one.
C. [Cyperus] No. 9, I had already determined. Indeed I have not time
        