
          Recd. Decr. [December] 9th
 Ansd. Jany. [January] 21st
 [illegible]


 Milwaukee Nov 20th 1841


 Dear Sir


 Please have the goodness to review and correct the
 preceeding list and if you think its publication in Lillimans Journal
 would be interesting to botanists, please forward it to him for that
 purpose. I have a plant which you named Gymnandia [Gymnadenia?]
 Houghtoniana, will you add it to the list in its proper place.
 Please also give a name and the specific characters of 
 the new Gentiain; also of any other new plants which
 you may have received from me.


 I sent you some time since a packet of
 plants from here containing such as I supposed would interest
 you of this year's gathering. It was put in a box directed
 to Wm (William] H. Pease Engr. care of S.E. Morse & co No 142 Nassau St.
 If you have not yet received it you may find it with
 Mr Pease.


 I have recently sent you a box containing
 packages, which I wish you would, open and [forward?]
 the packages. They are for
 Dr J. Barratt Middletown Conn
 Dr A.W. Chapman Quincy Florida
 Rev M. A Curtis Hillsbourgh N.C.
 Dr Wm M Carpenter Jackson La
 Dr Wm Darlington West Chester Pa
 Hartford Nat. Hist Society &
 Essex Co. Nat. Hist. Society (Salem Mass).


 Perhaps I have done wrong to tax you so much as to send
 you all these packages for distribution and if so please
 inform me, and I will not trouble you again.


 Will the "Final Reports" of the State Geologist of
 N.Y. appear soon? & what will be their cost.
 I am very anxious to procure those of the Botanist Zoologist
 and Palaeontologist. If you can send me copies of
 these I will remit to you their cost.


 Very truly yours
 I.A. Lapham


 Dr John Torrey.
        