
          books - which I have almost dispaired of getting through on booksellers.
I have indeed enough for practical purposes - but still there is hardly
anything that I know of that has been published on the lichens that
I would not gladly purchase.
And this remind me to tell you how much I was pleased the other
day with the examination of two parcels of Cryptogamous plant con-
taining many lichens, under your hand + seal. They belonged to the
Honble Mr. Cushing of Salem, + when I saw them were in the

Recd in parcel
by the "package car."

Reccommend him to cor-
respond with Duby of Geneva

hands of Mr. Emerson the President of the Boston Society of Natural
History. I took the liberty of citing one or two of the plants in my herb. as
I had not before seen authentick specimens. Excuse this prolixity -
+ Believe me, dear sir, most respectfully + truly
yours, E Tuckerman junr.

Prof. Torrey.
New York. 
        