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Perry Co. & other places, as persons have promised to catch them. 

 Dr. Storer sent me another copy of his Synopsis of N. Am. Fishes, 

 and I will send you my first one by the next opportunity. It is in 

 sheets, & wants the latin index but that does not make much differ- 

 ence. Won't you collect the Reptiles & fish of Reading for me? 

 and put in Spirits. The college will pay the expense of whisky, &c. 

 Do try. There must be species there not here, as Lamprey eels, &c. 

 William Watts pumped out that pond in his lower mine bank, and 

 I was there to see the fun. I got plenty of fish pike, suckers, (among 

 them abundance of C. gibbosus that species you got in Honk's dam) 

 sunfish, Leuciscus versicolor, Eels, &c. 



I have got some books of interest this session. Lichtenstein's ver- 

 zeichniss (a book I much wanted) Faber's Prodromus, Briinnich's 

 Ornithologia borealis, Schlegel's list of European birds, Wagler's 

 Systema avium, &c. The College has bought for me the whole of 

 the N. York state Reports, n 4to vols, containing plates of all the 

 Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Mollusca, Crustacea, &c. also 

 very complete geological & Mineralogical reports. Besides this they 

 procured the whole of the British association reports, [Milne-] Edwards 

 Elements de Zoologie, his Cours elementaire &c. Oken's Natural 

 History, D'Orbigny's Diet. & Hist. Nat. By the way I forgot to 

 send word before that I wanted that copy of Seligman's book, belong- 

 ing to Dr. Muhlenberg. Direct it to Uncle Ned, and send to Hughes' 

 tavern, letting me know. He will take care of it & forward it. 



I have had several lots of birds this fall. The first came in a 

 mysterious way from our old friend Edwin Brown of Burton on Trent; 

 no letter accompanying it. I would not have known whence it came 

 but for a small box in it, on which was the name Edwin Brown. It 

 was a hogshead, with a good many skins, most of which I had before, 

 & of poor quality. There were a good many eggs. The next came 

 from Jo LeConte, Georgia. The best birds in his box were an Ardea 

 coerulea, and Fish crow. The last was from old Sturm of Nurnburg; 

 in it were some beautiful skins, among them Strix aluco, Pastor 

 roseus, Larus Leucopterus, Mergulus die, and others which I forget. 

 There were also some rare eggs & nests. A copy of his work on the 

 Birds of Germany as far as published, a copy of Lichtenstein's 

 Verzeichniss and some rough drawings to show the proper attitudes 

 of some of his birds. It was the neatest lot I ever received, and shall 



