
          Arrd but I never found the writer either in California nor in
Virginia City

No 48 Lick House
San Francisco

[No date
but I received
when I was
absent from San Francisco
on my return there
Mr. S. had gone

Professor Torrey Sir

Seeing in the "Scientific & Mining Press" a
notice of your intention to
visit the wester portion of the 
great basin to examine its
flora, I take the liberty of
stating that during the months
of March April and May I
collect probably 300 species of
plants while on a surveying
expedition chiefly on the
metamorphic & basaltic hills
between Virginia City and
the Sierras. These I proposed
to send east to Prof. [William Henry] Brewer
who is engaged on the flora
of this coast and shall be
        