Teschemacher waited to receive the parcel of books before replying to Hooker's letter of 22 Dec. Unfortunately, Teschemacher's brother forwarded the parcel on the Alfred Tyler packet ship, which appears to have perished in a terrible storm in January. Teschemacher's primary interest is in ferns, he looks forward to Hooker's upcoming work on the subject. He requests specimens of filices in Hymenophyllum. He encloses a Cheilanthes collected 12 years ago in Matanzas, Cuba and asks Hooker to identify it. Teschemacher is also sending a dried flower and a living plant of a potentially new species, resembling Libertia, raised from seeds received from a New Zealand whaling vessel. The living plant is sent with Henry Coleman, late Agricultural Commissioner of Massachusetts, who is touring Europe to compare European and American agriculture, sanctioned by influential agricultural societies and individuals. Teschemacher sends the Iridaceous flower and asks Hooker to share it with the Reverend Herbert, who is interested in this family. Teschemacher gave Boott the Gelasine Herbert published: Teschemacher received it from the plains behind Buenos Ayres, but Greene has a specimen gathered in Florida. Teschemacher discusses the plant's characteristics. He received two bulbs of Stenomesson latifolium from Mount Amancaes, Chile. Mr Pickering has control of the collection of the American Exploring Expedition and will do what is best for science. Teschemacher hopes to receive a collection of plants from his son on the California coast. Asa Gray has started as a botanical professor at Harvard University with enthusiasm. Greene has sent Hooker the BOSTON NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL containing the Rafflesia description. If Hooker does not have any of Teschemacher's Hawaiian ferns he will send them, hardly any are described in THE BOTANY OF CAPTAIN BEECHEY'S VOYAGE. Mr Coleman sails from new York in the 'Independence' in April. Teschemacher has learnt from Torrey that Lieutenant Fremont, who went to the Rocky Mountains last year, is setting off on expedition again and will go as far as Fort Vancouver, returning by the heads of the Missouri. Buckly [Buckley], who spent last spring in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, is going to collect plants in Florida. Page 1 of 4.