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will be founded after the principles declared in the Pro- 

 gramme subjoined, by the best representatives of our acad- 

 emies and coryphaei of science. Would that other com- 

 mittees would associate themselves to contribute to the 

 creation of this scientific organon ! 



Hoping that you, respected sir, will accept with kind- 

 ness the invitation, and promulgate the character of it to 

 your countrymen, who loved and admired their glorious 

 " half- American confrere," as he called himself on sev- 

 eral occasions, and pardon the boldness and confidence 

 with which I address you, I have the honor to subscribe 

 myself 



Your most respectful and devoted 



CARL HITTER, 



Dr. and Prof. 



BERLIN, August 8, 1859. 



Among the letters which he received in Europe, 

 was one from his oldest colleague in office. 



FROM PRESIDENT DAY. 



NEW HAVEN, July 26, 1851. 



MY VERY DEAR FRIEND, I have this day received your 

 interesting letter of the 1st from Milan. Thanks to a 

 beneficent Providence which has thus far preserved your 

 life and health in the multiplied exposures incident to your 

 varied wanderings on the land and on the water. I rejoice 

 that you are able to sustain the labors and exhausting ex- 

 citement of a tour so diversified and so deeply interesting. 

 What a contrast to the monotonous tenor of my life at 

 home, the post-office being about the limit of my daily 

 peregrinations ! Yet I ought to be grateful that I am in 

 circumstances so well adapted to my infirm state of health. 

 Professor Stanley, whose travels have been further ex- 

 tended than yours, to Egypt and across the desert to Pales- 

 tine, has returned with no great improvement of his health. 



