
          And. July 19th

Worthington, Ohio March 1st 1839

Dear Sir

Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance
my friend R. P. Caltey M. D. who visits your city for the
purpose of embarking for Europe where he intends spending
a few months. Any attention or favor that you may
confer upon him will be gratefully received & worthily bestowed.

I send by the doctor a small parcel of plants containing
a few descriptions & observations which are at your disposal—
I do not wish to trouble you with a minute examination
of any portion of them before you take up the families to
which they belong for the Flora — but I should like the opinion
you may entertain from a mere inspection of a few of
them — viz. Nos. 43, 44, 47,48, & 91. — If you know that they
have been previously described, & named, please inform me by
whom — If you think they have not, please give me your
opinion.—

An immense pressure of engagements has prevented
me from making any progress with my promised list since
I last wrote you — I think however that I shall soon have
more leisure, when I will attend to its complation.
I have not yet received, Part II of the Flora — I have been
looking for it by every mail for several weeks past.

Please write me as soon as convenient after the reception
of this

Very Respectfully Yours
J. R. Paddock

Dr. John Torrey

        