
          Boston 4th March 1848

To Prof John Torrey
New York

Dear Sir

Your favor of the 23rd ult. [ultimate]
accompanying Mr. Buckley's piece for the Journal
was received by us yesterday via New Haven.

Although our April no. was completed before the 
rect. [receipt] of your letter, Mr. B's piece seemed so important
& valuable that we yesterday sent it back to New
Haven with orders to have it inserted at all
events and a proof sheet sent to you which 
you will please hand to Mr. Buckley, whose address
we are ignorant of. It is a pity we cannot
keep in the country such important & interesting
pupils. But the curse of the poor is their poverty. 
We fear that [Baron von Alois Joseph Xavier] Lederer's cabinet will for a similar
reason go to Rome.

We were glad after so long a time again
to see your hand & to hear of your success in the 
carbonic acid appy. We will drop Prof Bailey
a line on his paper & secure it for our July No. 
We need now all the active cooperation our friends 
can afford us in pushing through the present
depressed state of the Journal into smoother water.

We regret the decline most because of our inability
to meet all the wishes of our contributors
in giving full sway to illustrations & plates: only
recently, we lost a most valuable paper from a find
        