
          as to seek information where he could no obtain it
(and he must be admonished therefor) how much
mor abominable is yours, that after creating
species without number, you have lost all
memory of their names or comprehension of their
characters!!!

I return to you the Carics kindly sent
to me from your Herbarium (C. aurea [Carex aurea] & C. petasata [Carex petasata]),
a few species of Fungi that you have just come to light
from my old collections, a 1/5 of a Metre
divided into decimeters, centimetres and millimetres
which please accept from

Yours cordially
Stephen T. Olney

To Prof John Torrey
Columbia College
New York
        