
          Your herbarium must contain a vast amount of precious localities
not noticed in the Flora. I hope you will preserve the specimens.,
but if you part with them to correspondents, I hope will make
a catalogue of the [Crossed out: Flora] localities to which they belong & keep [Crossed out: ?] it
in yor herbarium. I might fill many sheets, & still have a thousand things
to say. I hope I shall see you before long. How far have you recd.[received] D.C. Prod.
is Hook. Bor. finished? My health has been good for the last 2 or 3 years
& I have spent a great part of my summers in botanizing. With respect, Yours truly,
W.O.

To John Torrey, M.D.
New York
N.Y.
        