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plish but for the to me odious labor of preparing two lectures 

 weekly in the department of Chemical philosophy. I can make no 

 researches for want of the proper apparatus, and the endless repetition 

 of old and threadbare facts is, to say the least, tiresome. 



Will you not send me a note on the matters in Miiller's Physics 

 in which proper credit has not been given to you for discoveries and 

 observations made. The text of the Natural Philosophy of the 

 Bilder Atlas is much like that of Miiller, although rather fresher, 

 and I would wish to do you justice in your own country. I have 

 already made sundry corrections in the subject of electro-magnetism, 

 but some inaccuracies I may have overlooked. I shall endeavor 

 throughout the entire work to do full justice to American Savants, 

 when it has not already been done. If you have time, I would beg 

 for a memorandum of this kind, as the Natural Philosophy is now 

 being printed, and I would wish to make any necessary corrections 

 in time. I regretted exceedingly that your absence this fall prevented 

 me from taking advantage of your kind offer to read over the MSS 

 of the Physics. 



I send an account of expenditures for freight of specimens, 

 liquor used and other items. Part of the whiskey bill is for the 

 amounts received prior to January first, 1849, but I thought it best 

 to send in the entire account. Dickinson College would pay about 

 half of it, but I think it best not to let the College have any claim 

 upon the specimens, although it was understood, at the time of my 

 depositing my collections, that sundry expenses were to be paid by 

 her for the use of the specimens in their free exhibition to the students. 

 The specimens received are by no means represented by the amount 

 of their cost. A large number of very rare or new and exceedingly 

 valuable forms of natural history are embraced in the series. Never 

 have I obtained half as much in the same time as since April first 

 of this year. I am overloaded with treasures, duplicates of great 

 value and uniques. In fact, I am greatly at a loss to know where 

 to stow all my goods, I wish they were all transferred to the cellars 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Should you consider it indelicate importunity in me as such 

 I am afraid you will consider it to ask whether you will recommend 

 the appointment of a Curator this winter. I feel more and more 

 desirous of escaping from my toils here, which I should do, were I 



