
          Ansd [Answered] Oct. 10

Smithsonian Inst [Institution]
Washinton D C
Oct 10th 1856

Prof John Torrey

Dear Sir

I received your
letter just before leaving Cleveland
but have only within a day or two
been able to look over the plants
which you named.

I was aware that you had described 
the generic identity of 
the Sequoias of California, and read
your article in Sillimans Journal at
the time of its publication, but
I am not aware that this identity
had been made palpable to the
eyes of others by figures and
Dr Gray said to me distinctly that
good figures of the florescence of
Sequoia gigantea were greatly
to be desired, and specimens
are awaiting you at Cambridge

        