
          I am glad to hear that your little flora is finished, send me one by 
mail. You may send 12 copies to Mr Salomon Conrad, bookseller for sale. 
I may want 6 copies myself if there is anything new in it, at any rate,
2 other copies, 1 for Decandolle, the other for Roemer. I hope it will not be 
a dear book. The author of this Catalogue will probably well deserve 
a genus’s dedication. My Torreya was a fine plant what a pity that 
Nuttall called it Synandra a few months previous, yet that name is not 
very good neither,only the anthers are united by hairs.
l hope to publish in one month, a small work 64 pages 8Vo price 25 cents 
called Natural classification of the natural classes, orders, families,
genera of American (USA & European Plants, motto Methodus naturalis
prinnus & ultimus finis botanices est & erit Lin. phil.bot.
Pray where is now Mr. Eaton [Amos Eaton]? When you write him tell him that I have 
recieved (thru Dr Mitchell) his 2d ed of Northern Botany. I want 3 copies for my 
friends & it not to be found here. Tell him to send some to Mr Conrad.
I will send him several copies of my Natural Glassification.
Where is Mr Knevils?my friendly compliments to him,& tell him when you 
see him that I have not yet rec'd the Dollars $ 6 of my books.-- 
I have spent the winter here to be able to make my Map of the Valley of the
Ohio, which I have sold for the Navigator. I hardly know when I 
shall visit New York again,probably next month,or at any rate before going
back to the Western Country where I must go next summer. I have 
been offered a professorship of Botany & nat.hist. in a College in the West but
as there is some difficulties yet in the way respecting Salary &c I do not 
wish it to be known yet generally,! therefore mention it in friendship
for a particular purpose which concerns you. A proof Experimental
Chemistry may be also wanted, I mentioned your name but not knowing
whether you should like to go West nor on what terms I could not do anything further but when I am going or sooner I should like to know whether
you will allow me to propose you, give me an idea of the terms 
you would go for, besides full lodging & board in the College & liberty to 
practice your profession and perhaps give lectures on some parts of Medical science: be explicit, whatever you will say,will be confidential.
Pray give, me the names and directions of the members of the Lyceum in
the Western States. Much is to be done yet on the Grasses of the Un. St. 
not withstanding Muhlenberg's. I believe that Mr Collins is enaged also on a
        