
          under loose, as he has never pulished them.- As to the "Hippocastaneous
plant", it has a monstrous Rosaceous look, but our volume of [Delandolle's?]
Rosaceae is borrowed, a comment on circulating Libraries.-  Should Hooker wish
to have any of the plants compared with uttall's I would most cheerfully undertake.
it, that is, if he would put any confidence in my judgement.- From
your caution about keeping the three sets seperate, I conclude not to incorporate 
them in the Herbarium for the present.
I congratulate you on the most liberal appropriation made
by your State for a Geological Survey- If it should be productive of 
nothing farther, it will confer respectibility on the profession of the Naturalist.-
You & your friend Dr. Gray will no doubt have a glorious time in overhauling
the State.- As for myself [added: I am] not yet quite ready for Treasury[pap?]
and the Department of Zoology, in which perchance there would be less rivalry,
is not that which would be likely to find most favour in the eyes of the
Publich- I do hope however hat my whole life may not be made up of
neglected opportunities.
Yours, in great haste
Charles Pickering

        