If Durand, Webb, and the British Museum take the sets saved for them they will all * 
be off your hands at once. 1 sent by private hands some of the earlier numbers 
of the set to Bentham and have got the returns of the Leguminosae, which I a sired 
him tc elaborate; they have much novelty and interest.** All the mosses sent 
to Sullivant and all lichens to Tuckerman 
Note: Wright's catalogue for 1849 contained 1404 numbers. This large 
collection,plus some of Wright's earlier collections added to it, was made up 
into sets the most complete of which only contained 828 numbers. In other 
words Gray united collections of a species, from 2 or more localities, 
and issued them under a single distribution-number. Wright apparently 
received ten cents a specimen. 
