
          Although the pendulum appears
to be upside down, it is really not so
as the lower end is much the heavier.
Professor [Hare?] says that he will send copies
of his late work to New York & forward
one to thee.

I have been much gratified in looking
over thy two works on Botany. I hope
the large one will be soon completed.
What is the reason there are so fewer
here for sale?

The chief if not the only defect of
the Linnean System as a Dictionary
of plants is the numerous anomalies
in which species vary from the Genus in
the number of Stamina & Pistils as
Euonymous, Rhododendron, etc. Pursh has
a catalogie of the genera which have
anomalous species & in the [crossed out: Genera] Species
Plantarium there is a list at the end
of each class of the plants which actually
belong there but are classed differently. 
Allow me to suggest the advantage
in the next edition of the [compared?] of such
a catalogue with [added: a] rference to the page where
the plant is described. Would it not
        