198 LETTER FROM PROF. BACHMAN. 



Cincinnati Museum and procured it, but it proved to be 

 the common Lynx rufus. 



If in Michigan we could get the small rodentia, Meadow 

 Mice and Shrews, I am sure we would get something new. 

 I think we will add about fifty new species, but will have 

 to knock off scores of the old authors* species. I will add 

 at the end, a synopsis in the scientific arrangement, includ- 

 ing all our mammalia — the Bats, Whales, Porpoises, Maniti 

 and Seals. 



I constantly receive and we all read the Family Visitor. 

 It is the best work of the kind ever published in our coun- 

 try. When I have a little leisure I will try to write a few 

 articles for it — at present I am full of the quadrupeds. 

 What would I give for an hour in your sanctum! Kind 

 regards to your dear family. 



You see I write in a terrible hurry. I have a dozen 

 letters to write for Victor Audubon, who leaves in the 

 morning for Savannah, Augusta, Columbia, &c. He ob- 

 tained here, within the last four days, two hundred and 

 sixty subscribers, and I presume his friends here will drum 

 up a hundred more. Now don't stand upon etiquette, but 

 just drop me a few lines. 



Truly your grateful friend. 



Jno. Bachman. 



