[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] In his letter a year ago [see folio 61/65] Darlington told Hooker of an acquaintance in North Carolina, named Moses A. Curtis, who had promised to collect plants for Darlington. Darlington is now sending Hooker some of the promised specimens from Curtis. They are being sent along with a parcel from David Townsend to Dr Boott. There are 180 species for Hooker, mostly from the Carolinas and a few collected by Darlington in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk is botanically interesting, but it was not the right season when Darlington was there last May. Curtis' specimens include some of the Dionaea Hooker wanted. Darlington understands Townsend sent Hooker the Nelumbium he wanted, along with some other local plants. Darlington expresses his high opinion of Townsend as a botanist, in fact he suggests that if Hooker is sent anything that constitutes a new genera from the United States of America, it could be named Townsendia. Darlington would like to accept Hooker's offer of plants from New Orleans as he has never received any plants from that quarter and is interested in the plants of the southern states. Darlington is pleased that Dr Short of Kentucky has been sending Hooker plants from the west of the United States of America, which are inaccessible to Darlington. Darlington is honoured by Hooker's correspondence and he intends to continue their botanical exchanges. Page 1 of 4.