5 Oct 1848 [1] (seq. 208)

Princeton, October 5th 1848.

Dear Doctor —

Your letters of 29th ult. & 2nd Oct. came last eve.
The Mentzelias were in a parcel which I sent several
days ago to Hastings. A letter from him announces their
safe arrival in N York. You will get them, & the other matters
which you desired, in a day or two. I sent a letter to
Carey, hoping he would not leave NY till Monday evening
& requesting him to call at Wiley's for a parcel.

I have no time to select & describe many of the Fremont's
{California} plants & therefore shall merely select the most interesting.
I had no intention of describing that Rosaceous genus — for it
was wholly Bentham's — but the Limnanths I had partly de-
termined before I knew of Hasting's discoveries — but let them
go. The Saxifraga had been described for months, in my notes —
Add in note — /
& you must put it in one of your papers — unless it will
be sufficient to inform Bentham of the fact that I had
it first. From a remark in his letter, however, (which
I stated once before if I mistake not) he will only regard
the names which may be published when he sends his
article to press. If this was his meaning I ought to
anticipate him — but I may have misunderstood him.
I did not intend figuring the Saxifr. for Smithsonian {Contributions}