
          Philada. 22d May 1830

My good friend

I was disappointed at not finding you at the 
Tuckerton Stage office as you had stated.  Something
must have taken you earlier to Princeton, where I am told
you were to give your first Lect. [lecture] yesterday.  I have a thousand
things to speak of with you too long for Letters.  I am told of a
N.G of yours Conradia ? lately made on a new orchideous forms
by Mr. Conrad:  thus you also make N.G.  I hope you will not
monopolize the employment & allow me to do the same.

I visited this week for the first time Bartram's Botanic
Garden for many years.  I was delighted with it, the actual
Possesor Co. Carr has improved it vastly, he keeps up all the
fine shrubs etc disc [discovered] by Bartram, and is very liberal, allowing
Botanists to take specimens.  He has requested me to invite
you to visit the Gardens when you come to Phil:  We shall go
together if you let me know before hand.  Write me when you
will call, I want you also to spend a day with me.  I dwell
still at the same place where you once called N [number] 47 North
8th Street between Arch and Race Street.  I saw at Barts
a new Philadelphus disc. [discovered] by Mr. Thomas on Cayuga Lake.
Ph. pubescens (ramis Virgatis, stigm 4 agglutinatis) which
is not in your Work.  Thus there are new Sp. yet in New York.
I was struck with the Southern Styrax sp which must form
a New S.G. the fruit is so different, not a dispermous Drupe
but a non descript fruit 2 coverings outside like Juglans
inside fragile and polyspermous with 3 angular placentas.
I shall call it Eutax or Isotax.

Strange to tell I have never [crossed out:seen][added:visited] Princeton College yet
altho I have gone 10 times thro' the village, but never could
stop.  I wish to visit it while you are there.  Perhaps I may
stop a day on my way to New York in July.  I could give
an Extempore [added:gratuitous] lecture on any part of Zoology required to
your class while I stay.  If they would bear my expenses
I could come at any time & give a copule of them.

Do write me before you come, and let us not miss each
other again:  unless you write me I may be botanizing out of
town the very day you call.  Your friend

C.S. Rafinesque
        