
          Tell Prof. Lindley that in the next Edit [edition] of his works or new work, he
ought to quote my labors on Nat. families published in 1815 (Analyse Nature)
which he has omitted, as well as my new plants except a few taken from
Decandole [De Candolle].  I sent thru' [through] Dr. Mease to London & him, my medical flora &c.
Remarks in the Encyl. of plants, which were rec'd [received], but have not heard from
them. English Botanists are not liberal, even Decandole complains of
their doings, they are a bad model for you, but our Lang [language] being the same
compels you I suppose to give them the preference over the french school.
If I am mistaken in Lindley and he is liberal I should like to be acquainted 
with him, exchange works or sell plants.

I have [added: as] many things to say for my french friends in Paris & Geneva
but I shall write you more in detail upon them in my letter directed
in Paris, which will reach there before you. In case of accidents I only
add now that I am waiting for letters from Brongniart, Terriflae &
Decandolle to my last, and that I do not know who are the principal 
Botanists of Paris (except Bory) but should liek to know & if they buy 
plants. I shall soon write to the [?] of Geography & send them many 
things. Mr. Jomard of the G. [Geography] Institute is the Pres [President] of the Central Committee.

Another thing for England. Enquire for me how Books sell at auction 
there & put me in the way of sending some copies of my work to be sold so. 
I will not trust them in Booksellers hands who keep them many years, 
& give you no acct [account] of them. So it is also in France & elsewhere. 
It is better to sell off at once at auction, you have at least something at 
once, instead of nothing after 5 or so years! Put me in the way here 
to send safely 12 copies of all my works & also my list of America 
when published. I shall probably soon publish a 3d vol [volume] or suplt [supplement]
to my medical flora also.  his work could sell well in England.

This year I mean to travel S. [south] again in the mts [mountains] of West Virginia &
East Tennessee for plants & fossils, of which I shall no doubt obtain many
rare or new, thus adding every year to my cabinet & collections.

I have just rec'd [received] an invitation to join a voyage upon the plan that
I proposed in N [number] 1 of my Journal, to fill up a ship with natural objects
in Patagonia, Magellania, &c. But I do not feel inclined to meet 
the dangers of the Sea, & [added:would] rather travel on from land.  I advise them
to employ some young man of the Rensalaer [Rensselaer] School.  This is a 
difft [different] Exped. [expedition] fr. [from] Capt. [captain] Morrell's, to whom I wrote lately for vocabularies of the
languages of the 2 Islands he has bought, but have had no answer yet.
I shall send to the Soc. [Society] of Geog. [Geography]. Remarks in Morrell's disc. & show that some
are not such, Bay DeKay, for instance is bay Natividad of Sp [Spanish] maps, but 
he has seen the true Patagons of Pigafetta & this is as great a Discovery
altho' [although] not know by himself.

Upon the Dodecatheon I would have much to say, but at any rate 
the 2 actual Sp [species] are not sufficiently distinguished & my [Dodecatheon cordata] &
[Dodecatheon longifolium] are certainly distinct from them. You are mistaken
abt [about] the Torreya, mine of 1818 is the Synandra of Nuttal [Nuttall] also of 1818, and
thus is a Dilemma! that of Eaton is my Nuttallia of 1817.  That of Sprengel
1821 I know not, & I leave you the choice.  I wanted to call Torreya
once the Cyperus with 2 stamens, but have changed owing to this confusion

        