
          Per Morrison
Macao Feb. 10. 1836

Prof. Torrey,
Dear Sir,

Although personally unacquainted
with you, yet I have ventured to send you
a few specimens of plants collected in the vicinity
of Cauton & lohampoa. They are given into the care
of Mr. James M Calle Jr. who will endeavor to deliver
them to you himself. I have no leisure to analyse 
them, and am too little acquainted with oriental
botany to recognize the family or genus at first sight.
Some of them I am pretty certain you will be
unable to ascertain satisfactorily; but I hope the most
of them are preserved sufficiently well to prevent the
parts necessary. They have been dried by a Chinese,
and are of course preserved in an inferior manner
to what one [crossed out: would] accustomed to the business would
have done. I send you all I have, not deeming them
of sufficiently well dried to keep duplicates. I should be
pleased to have you just whatever duplicate among
them [crossed out: may] are in a good state of preservation, and which
you can spare, into the collection owned by the New York
Lyceum. There may be a few, not yet obtained by that society.

        