Some time ago one of your correspondents wrote a very interesting
letter in answer to your inquiry about Florida sea-beans.
I send you some specimens gathered on the Atlantic beach, not very
far from where the ill-fated steamer _City of Vera Cruz_ went down
last August. But these do not grow on trees; they are the product
of a vine, something like that of the common horse-bean. There are
vines from this variety now growing on Indian River, though they
are not indigenous. I have heard they grow in abundance on the
Spanish main.
Mr. Bennett, of Syracuse, New York, presented me with some
implements and a work on taxidermy, and I have learned to skin
birds. Are ivory-billed woodpeckers numerous in the North?
I value my paper, and I know Mr. James Otis must Be a good man by
what he writes.