Journal." I think Dean Herbert's article well worth reading.

I have been so extravagant as to order M[oquin] Tandon (320/2.

Probably "Elements de Teratologie Vegetale": Paris, 1841.), for though I have not found, as yet, anything particularly novel or striking, yet I found that I wished to score a good many passages so as to re-read them at some future time, and hence have ordered the book.
Consequently I hope soon to send back your books.

I have sent off the Ascension plants through Bunsen to Ehrenberg.
There was much in your last long letter which interested me much; and I am particularly glad that you are going to attend to polymorphism in our last and incorrect sense in your works; I see that it must be most difficult to take any sort of constant limit for the amount of possible variation.

How heartily I do wish that all your works were out and complete; so that I could quietly think over them.