
          wants specimens for Dr. Boott, but I will pinch you
 off a good one, and if I succeed in finding more
 up or down the same stream I will supply you
 liberally.~ As soon as I get Mr Fields plants off I
 intend to visit distant parts of the county and perhaps
 extend my visit beyound its limits - I am
 sorry that I could not have visited the place of
 Phillips - on Toms River where we were nearly driven a
 shore during a squall on our way to the Beach
 last summer - That place ought to be visited
 several times this season. - I want to visit the
 neighborhood of Squam - Howell - [Metitcumk?] - and 
 make one long excursion up & down the sea side
 but a little later in the season will probably be
 better - I thank I shall be ready to go with
 you to Long Island when you say - But
 we ought to settle the arrangements soon so as to
 be prepared to do the most work in the least
 possible time - You know but the places that
 ought to be visited, the time necessarily occupied
 in visiting them the quantity of paper necessary to
 secure plants, etc. etc. Please give your opinion
 fully on their several particulars. - I am none
 too comfortably provided with a good dry room
 not to do much at collecting & preserving plants
 my former situation here in this respect has been
 deplorably bad - For by leaky roofs & dampness I have
 lost or have had injured many very many of my choicest
        