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amongst friends. I cannot expect that any friends on your 

 side of the Atlantic will admit the justice of all I have said, 

 but I hope they will allow that I have not viewed them with 

 an eye of hostility, or even of prejudice. I must, indeed, 

 have been very unfortunate in the expression of my senti 

 ments, if my remarks have not conveyed to others a feeling 

 of great good-will, on my part, more especially as respects 

 the people of New England. I should, however, be very 

 glad to hear whether you think that in other parts of the 

 Union I should be considered to make an acceptable pres 

 ent in sending copies of such a production. By the same 

 conveyance you will probably also receive a copy of the 

 last agricultural lecture I have published. I believe I have 

 sent you all the preceding ones ; such at least was my in 

 tention, but, if not, you will find them in the Journal of the 

 Royal English Agricultural Society. The subject of agri 

 culture is now exciting much attention in England, and the 

 new views of Liebig are opening a new field of research 

 both in vegetable and in animal physiology. 



I travelled with that distinguished man during a consid- 

 able part of last summer in different parts of England and 

 Scotland, and was much pleased with him. His principles 

 are carried out, in Dr. Jones's little work on " Gravel and 

 Grit," with much ingenuity, and his translator, Dr. Playfair, 

 is engaged .in many experiments on the feeding and fatten 

 ing of cattle according to his principles 



FROM PROFESSOR DAUBENY. 



January 17, 1848. 



I TRUST you will regard this present as a proof 



that I retain a lively recollection of the agreeable time I 

 spent amongst my brethren in the New World, and more 

 especially of the kindness and attention I experienced at 

 New Haven, from whence you will be able, I hope, to give 

 me good tidings of yourself and family. Your Mexican war 

 is, I believe, not viewed with much favor in the New Eng- 



