
          be called even a compilation, but is rather your 1st. Vol[Volume] & Manual
arranged in the Natural System, with almost every error of authors
sacredly preserved. It evidently was put together without study
or examination - a la mode Eaton. The plan of uniting the
Linnaean & Natural System, exactly as he has done it,
occurred to me ten years ago, & I mentioned it at that
time to Dr. Emmons of WmsTown[Williamstown] as the plan I should
pursue, & since to Pickering & Robbins. It is an excellent
plan, & I wonder that it has not been put in practice
before, especially as Eaton & Hooker (in Fl Sc.) came
so near it.

I am greatly obliged to you for the trouble you take
in getting the New York Annals for me. I have all the vol's[volumes]
of Pha. Journal. Acad. but the 7th et seq. if any. I sent
last spring by one of our booksellers to get that, without
hiccup. If you can conveniently obtain the 7th et seq.
in N. York, I should be much obliged to you to send
it on with the others, & I will send you the money by
mail, if enough should not remain of the 20 sent. If
you cannot conveniently obtain it in N. York, please keep
any surplus money for the present. I am ashamed to trouble
you so much, but necessity must be my excuse. It seems
to me that the Societies ought to have their publications sold
[added: regularly] at a Booksellers' in Boston.

I fear from what you say that you
have given up your plan of publishing a compendium. I
am very sorry if you have[added: it would help [crossed out: ?] Flora to come after, very much].

My Flora comes on slowly enough
but still I do something towards it by fits. I hope yours will
come soon. I should be glad to have yours come first.

March 2, 1836
At the former 
date I had begun to select soe plants to send on immediately
but a sprain of the shoulder by a fall [crossed out: has?] prevented me
from overhauling my bundles until this week.
        