
          Recd [Received] Aug. 12th 1843

Chippawa Canada West
July 22nd 1843

Dear Sir

I have determined for some time past to
communicate with you but have put it off from time to
time in hopes of having something worth troubling you with
but as I happen to have a copy of Pursh's Flora which once
belonged to Douglas and which contains a few notes made
by him. I have thought it better to transcribe them in case
there may be any thing useful to you which I hardly expect.
I have not copied such stations as are already given on his
authority in your work; nor a number of species which
have merely a date and his initials attached. I suspect 
from the superior sources of information in your power
that there will be nothing new in these extracts.

In the course of my duty as an Assistant Surgeon of His
Majesty's army I have been moved about to various parts of
Canada during the last two years, from the late Disputed
Territory to my present station where I hope to remain
during the summer. I should be happy to furnish you with
a list of the species I have met with and it would give me
still greater pleasure to send you duplicates of any plants
you might desire. I have sent home 2 or 300 species to our
Edinburgh Botl [Botanical] Society and I regret now that I did not
reserve for you and Dr Gray such species as I thought
interesting. As however they are submitted to my friend
Prof Balfour of Glasgow as well as to my old preceptor Dr Graham
I will hear if there be anything new among them. These were
all from Canada East. Of course my nomenclature is very
defective as I had only Pursh and Eatons Manual and have
none else yet for the orders not yet published by you. I trust
soon to see some more parts for it is unsatisfactory work
without it. Of the plants which I have found lately near the
Falls, the most interesting (to me) are Hedioma glabra Mynophyllum
Liluophyllum, Lindomia attenuata ? Nasturtium Lispedura

        