He forwarded a copy to New York for the especial purpose of sub-
mitting it to Dr. John Torrey, as shown by the following letters.
Princeton March 17th 1848.
Dear Sir:
  Your letter of February 25th reached me the first of March. As it was
not mailed till the 26th inst., there was not time for an answer to reach
you by the first of this month, (the time you wished me to reply) even had
the letter come by express.
  When it came however, I was busily engaged in my Chemical lectures
and laboratory duties-besides examining students every evening.
  I was also writing during the half hours that could be snatched from
other duties, a Botanical Report to accompany Major Emory's narrative
of the expedition across the Continent in which he acted as Top. Engineer.
You see then how nearly impossible it was that I could write to you.
  The illustrated Flora of Maine which you have undertaken will be a
work of great labor but (if properly executed which I have no doubt will
be the case) the value of it will repay all cost. In many respects such a
work though the number of copies is very limited will do more good than
even a printed volume of Descriptive Botany for it will at once settle the
nomenclature of any plant of your State that it includes. If copies were
deposited in the principal towns of Maine where they could be referred to
by persons who are studying native plants there never could be any diffi-
culty with the Botanical and popular names of your plants. The price
seems to be far too little for the work even if the style of it is of the plainest
kind, but I suppose you can do such things cheaper in Maine than they
can be done in New York. If you have an opportunity of sending a vol-
ume to New York and will direct it to be left at Dr. James Chelton's in
Chambers St., I will examine it and report if you please to the Governor.
                                    Yours truly
                                               John Torrey.

 Princeton New Jersey March 31st 1848.
 Dear Sir.
   Your favor of the 22nd is received and yesterday I had the pleasure of
 examining your beautiful volume, sent to me through Mr. Chelton.
   I hardly see how it is possible for you to get out the work at so low a
 price. If you can have the actual cost it will be all you can expect. Pray
 what is the cost of binding such a volume in Maine, supposing 100 copies
 be done at once?
   I have admired your paper as just the thing for an herbarium. It is
 difficult for me to get any here. I need some now for my own herb. The
 size of my paper is only (when folded) 15 x 11 inches.
   Will you have the goodness to enquire, whether any of the paper
 manufacturers around you have a white that will cut, without much waste
 of that size. The color, thickness & stock as much like yours as may be.
 Or if they have it not, how small a quantity of it they will make to order
 and the price. It ought to weigh about 45 or 50 lbs., to the ream.
   The State of New Jersey is a poor place for science. I doubt much if
 any subscriber could be got in it for your work, or even for one much nearer
 home. In our town (I mean Princeton although I don't consider myself
 a Jerseyman) there is but one person who has a taste for botany besides
 myself. It is probable that if your specimen volume were left at some


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