
          on the battle-fields of Monterey,
Beuna [Buena] Vista, &c. &c.

We have been so fortunate as to 
procure an entire copy (so far as printed)
of the New York Nat. history survey, for our
Med. Library. It was obtained by one of
my colleagues in some of the western counties
of N.Y. of a county squire who was very willing
to dispose of it at $2. per vol! Verily
this act of the Legislators of the “Empire
State,” this “throwing pearls to swine”, would
have disgraced the Legislation of the most 
agrarian, Loco-focos of the most ignorant
of the back-wood states. I should be
well pleased, nevertheless, to obtain for
myself your part of the work at a “fairer
price” and if you can succeed in procuring
it for me, I shall be very thankful.

When may we expect another part of 
the Flora? If the 2d. vol. was completed we
could wait with more patience for the 3d.

Very truly, my dear Sir, I am
Yours C.W. Short
        