
          with accurate references to the numbers attached
to the specimens of each collection.
This will be invaluable to those who possess
sets of these collections; as it will obviate
the time and trouble of searching
through many detached and costly publications.

I thank you very kindly for 
your good wishes in regard to my botanical
pursuits. I still continue, and probably will 
continue so long as I am able, to collect and
prepare specimens of living plants in the summer,
and to amuse myself with the study and 
arrangement of dried ones in the winter. 
But I fear that my “labours of love” in these
matters have been of but little service
or benefit to the Science, and have only been
a source of private and personal gratifica
to myself. But what more could have
been expected from one, who in his earliest
and best days was doomed to the drudgery
of a laborious medical practice; and in his
later and declining years is surrounded and
encompassed by the cares and anxieties of
a large family? I have six children and 
        