
          Dr. John Torrey, New York

Philadelphia 5th Oct 1832

My good friend.  I should like to know
how you have found this summer, during the calamity
of the Cholera, and where you have been.

Instead of going to the North, I travelled this
summer two months in the Alleghanies.  You will
see my Discoveries in my Atlantic Journal, of
which I send you by this opportunity 6 copies of
the Extra to N 3, published on my return & shall
soon send you the N 3 itself, in which will be my
Vindication of the foul and wanton attacks made 
on me by Featherston & Harlan.

I have heard you have been appointed Prof
of Botany in the New University of New York.
Pray who fill the other branches of Natural Sciences
and is there [crossed out:an] any chair of Ethnology & Universal
Philology?

I contemplate to publish this winter my
Supt [supplement] to medical flora, with my new plants.

Why have you adopted the G. Clintonia of Lindley
1830, and not my Clintonia of 1817!  You have 
passed over Decandole method of priority by dates.
I have changed the Clintonia of Lindl. [Lindley] as I have
a right to do, but few others will do the same
& thus we'll have 3 or 4 names for one!!

A friend of yours Mr. Walker Arnott of
Scotland to whom you sent my Enumeration, has
        