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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- 



