Bolander has received four letters from Hooker; he will reply before he leaves for the northern part of the state. Bolander thanks Hooker for his magnificent present of the FLORA BOREALI-AMERICANA. He has sent the account to Dr Gray who will pay at once. Bolander asks Hooker to give Colonel Munro his heartfelt thanks for naming his grasses; whatever Bolander finds of that difficult family he will submit to Munro. Bolander only forms a herbarium of cryptogams, all his phanogamous plants are taken care of by the Californian Academy of Sciences. Any specimens of duplicates from RBG Kew would be acceptable to them. With this letter Bolander will send their last PROCEEDINGS [OF THE CALIFORNIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES], two first memoirs and a circular he has authored. Bolander will give Hooker a synopsis of their conifers and vegetation to be published wherever he desires. Dr Engelmann does not differ so far from Bolander's views and Dr Parry, to whom he recently showed the Survey material, agreed fully with Bolander. Few men have seen more of their trees than Parry, therefore, Bolander places considerable value on his judgement. Bolander thanks Hooker for the information concerning Algae collection. They quite a number of bulbs of which he will send a fine assortment this autumn. Their liliaceous plants deserve considerable attention: there is confusion over their true botanical characters. Cultivation alone will settle this. Bolander has not yet met with Lewisia. As a postscript he notes that his uncle in Germany wrote to inform him that there was a gardener in London named Lodiges who may be a relative of his. His uncle's name is Lotichius and he lived formerly as an educator at one of the small courts in Italy, but lives now at Schlüchtern, district of Hessen, near Frankfurt. Some of his ancestors are known as Latin poets about the time of the reformation and one of the family went in early times to England. Annotated that a copy of the letter was sent for F.[?]W. Cooke about the Lodiges. Pages 1 and 4 of 5.