
          Dear Sir,


 I trust you will overlook the liberty I
 am taking in addressing you on the present occasion, &
 still more, for the favor I presume to ask of you.


 I have sent by this evenings boat
 a package of grasses, (which will be left at the
 Museum of the Lyceum to-morrow) whose names
 I am anxious to learn. The specimens are numbered
 from 1. to 111; & all I would ask is this _ to have
 you glance these over and minute down their
 names, abbreviated as much as you please, &
 send the memo. to the Post Office, directed to
 me. The specimens will be of no consequence
 to me, as I have an abundance of them, &
 therefore I do not desire these returned. If you
 would find time to do it the present week, I
 should consider the obligation still greater, as
 I am just now engaged in arranging my Herbarium,
 and these are plants which I found myself
 in uncertainty - about & could not fear to
 [?] any longer ignorant of them.


 I should not be surprised if
 some of them, from their imperfection should
 offer considerable difficulty in their determin-
 nation: in such cases please to pass these
 by 
        