
          Washington City Feby 26th 1845

My Dear Sir,

Will you have the kindness to forward
to Prof. Hall, a box which I have sent to Mr.
Endicott. I have the pleasure to hear from Dr. 
Hall, who is getting on well with the fossils.

I enclose a form of the receipts used by the
department & if will please have it receipted for
amount paid in the transportation of the boxes.
I will send on the drafts immediately.

I send you a fragment of the Californian
poppy as I suppose it to be, Eschscholtzia [added: Crocea] [cross out: California]

I suppose the specimens were so much 
injured that even this may help.

I will send you [added: in] an envelope [added: this evening] a few plants which
I have found among my books & which were
forgotten, (Campanula med.)? Rocky Mts. abundant.
(Viola canina?) Rocky Mts. & Strawberry Rocky Mts.
In addition to the above will be a fragment
(all that is left) of a very interesting leguminous
plant with a deep yellow flower. & is highly
characteristic in certain portions of the
Rocky Mt. region.

The plants will come in a public document.

I have also some additional seed vessels of the
new accacia [acacia] if you desire them. You will
have to search carefully in order to find the 
        