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also of the American Board, has made use of and has earnestly recom- 

 mended it in his excellent grammar of the Zulu-Kaffir. 



I should feel very grateful, if you will let me know whether there 

 has been any attention given to this question with you, and if you 

 would communicate to me whatever may relate to the subject. The 

 original languages of America will be found transcribed in much 

 greater number in the second edition of the standard alphabet; and, if 

 you know of any scholar who makes the study of these languages his 

 specially, and who could give me instructions as to the exact pronun- 

 ciation of the letters of some of them, I would be much obliged if 

 you would make me acquainted with him. 



Among your former publications, besides those relating to linguistics 

 and ethnology, such as the grammar of the Dakotah language, 

 there are also memoirs relating to the antiquities of different parts of 

 America, viz : the researches of Squier and Davis on the monuments 

 of the Mississippi. I received from Mr. Squier himself his memoir 

 on the monuments of New York, (vftl. II, art. 9 ;) and also have most 

 of the writings of Squier, Pickering, and Morton, in separate publica- 

 tions ; but of your antiquarian publications I am still in want of the 

 following: Vol. I ; vol. II, art. 2 ; III, 6, 7 ; VII, 5. I do not ven- 

 ture to designate other memoirs that would gratify my general in- 

 terest in American science ; yet I should be highly obliged if you 

 would continue the transmission of your reports, and add those of the 

 foregoing volumes which you can most readily spare. 



Will you let me know whether you have already the first volume 

 of my "Egyptian Chronology;" if not, I shall not fail to send a copy. 



I beg your pardon for this long letter, which I fear has taken 

 too much of your time, occupied by many other subjects. 



Accept the expression of the high consideration with which I am, 

 sir, your most obedient. 



R. LEPSIUS. 



Professor Joseph Henry, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Melbourne Botanic and Zoologic Garden, 



October 25, 1860. 



Honored and Dear Sir : I owe you my grateful acknowledgment of 

 transmitting to me, through the kindness of Hon. William Haines, 

 the valuable reports of the Smithsonian Institution for 1857 and 1858, 

 and the celebrated work on the North American algae, furnished by 

 our common friend Dr. Harvey. 



Whilst expressing my warmest thanks for having been deemed 

 worthy, by your noble Institution, to share in the gifts which, by the 

 world-famed liberality of the Smithsonian Institution, the men of 

 science so extensively enjoy, I beg to state that it will be a source of 

 pleasure to me to endeavor to reciprocate your friendly offers, and 

 that I hope, through Prof. Asa Gray, within a few months, to lay 

 several recent publications of mine, including the first volume of the 

 " Plants of Victoria," before your Institution and other American scien- 

 tific associations. 



