
          Columbus Oct 9 1839

Dr. J. Torrey - Dear Sir - Yours of Sept 28th before
me, the above is for the 500 plants mentioned in your
last letters. I have found the O. [leuciphora?] as you
indicated in the 5 vol Am. Sc. Trans. We have the Trans.
in our [?] library and also the Journal of Acd Phil.
excepting the 7th vol. which will be here shortly. Although
I was aware those publications contained papers from
Mr. Nuttall on western plants it did not occur to me
that we had in this vicinity (after the investigations of [John Leonard] Riddell)
any plants (& such a fine one do) that could not be found
in Eaton 7th ed. who says his book is "a depository of 
the discoveries of our botanists" in which particular or
        