[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] Wallich sent Boott Hooker's number of the FLORA BOREALI-AMERICANA, requesting that Boott return it in the evening in person. Boott was examining it when Brown called and noted that Hooker had made a mistake with the Eriogynia, thinking Hooker had been misled by Pursh. That evening, Boott took tea with Wallich and discussed looking over Royle's Hedysara. Wallich was delighted to find Hooker could make blunders as well as himself. Boott thinks himself wholly incompetent to take up the Aster's for Hooker's beautiful work and thinks Hooker should get Nees von Esenbeck to do them. Boott's zeal over Asters and Solidagos has been cooled on finding most of the species originated from garden plants. Boott thinks Decandolle got Lindley to undertake the Asters for him. Wallich told Boott that Lindley employed a pupil to work the Asters up for him. Boott has never seen Troximon. Rubus hispidus has been called different names and is probably Hooker's 'obovatus'; Boott will send Hooker a specimen. He has not looked at his plants for two months as he is hard at work on fevers. Yellow fever alone has cost him 12 months research; he has yet to digest typhus, plague and the 'E.I.' [East Indian] fevers. Boott is delighted with Hooker's commendations of Greene. Boott has heard of some plants coming from Mr Townsend, a young friend of Darlington's. Boott offered to exchange books for plants and sent Townsend two boxes from his shelves. Boott has also sent Darlington, in Hooker's name, FLORA LONDINENSIS. Their chargé d'affaires of the United States of America tells Boott there is a regular trade between St Louis and Santa Fe in [New] Mexico, protected by a regular treaty between the two Governments. Santa Fe and the Rocky Mountains would be a glorious situation to Drummond. Boott wishes he could go there next summer for two or three years. Boott explains why he despises Lindley and shall urge Brown to speak out in defence of his own character. Poor Wallich was 'literally broken-hearted' in leaving England. Page 1 of 4.