
          Rec'd June 6th

Amherst 2 June 1856

Dear Sir

It is with great pleasure that I recognized
the dedication of your kind enclosure, and examined its 
contents. I wish I had been able to send you
two volumes instead of one; but the 3rd, or 5th & 6th
fascicules, which I had hoped to get out at the
same time with the 2nd, and for which both
the books and the specimens are ready - still wait till
I can get time for the labour of putting down the
7500 lichens which, or about which, will be required.

I am glad however that the precious specimens
collect by Col. Fremont are at length made available
to the botanical world in a form of which
I am confident you will approve. It is very
singular that the remarkable Ramalina menziesii 
should have remained undescribed from 1787 when
[Archibald] Menzies collected it, till 1847 when Dr. [Thomas] Taylor
published his description. Nothing will give me greater
pleasure than to receive collections from California and
Oregon. The country which is distinguished by such
trees and Sequoia etc. must have other curious lichens.
I am inclined to think, besise the Ramalina, and

        