
          it. He has, I think, an agent in your city to whom I
suppose he could at almost anytime send it.

Agreeably to the intimation which you were so kind
as to make, I desired my old friend, Mr. John Vaughan
of Phila. [Philadelphia] some months since, to send to you that part of 
the Trans. [Transactions] of the Am. Philos. Soc. [American Philosophical Society] containing Mr. Nuttall's paper
on the Botany of Arkansas, on which you were so good as
to promise to make some observations and corrections.
Have you recd. [received] it, and had time to mark your notices?
I percieve [perceive] that Mr. Nuttall (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. [Journal of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia]
part 1, vol 7, 1834) thinks our Rhamnus lanceolatus distinct
from Pursh's plant, and that he gives me credit for a new
Solidago & Hydrophyllum. This last is probably the same
plant which, about three years ago, you informed me that
Mr. Schweinitz had found in Indiana in Illinois.

I desired Mr. Dobson some time since, to
send me the publication then in progress by Dr. Gray and yrself [yourself]
on Am. [American] Cyperaceae & Gramineae, but he had not done so.
How much of the work is published, to what extent will
it reach, and when probably completed? The number of 
specimens which Dr. G. [Gray] marked on the Catalogue you returned
so greatly exceeded what I had on hand that I sent him
none. If among those which you recieve [receive] from us there are
any which he wants for this work I will endeavour to supply
him this season.

Very respectfully, my dear Sir,
I remain yours truly
C.W. Short 
        