204 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



Dr. Deane I have copied and forwarded to him, and he 

 will be gratified to find that the subject interests you. He 

 writes me that he is preparing a box for you, and he will send 

 you some remarks of his own in elucidation of the subject. 

 He is preparing to make plaster casts of all the important 

 specimens that have been obtained, and, being colored like 

 the rock, they will correctly represent the originals. He 

 will probably send you a set, and he will wish your mature 

 judgment upon them. He says that the most valuable and 

 valued returns which he can receive from you will be your 

 own works, and any medical books you can spare. He is a 

 very deserving man, and has spent much time and labor 

 upon this research, and that with very slender means ; per- 

 haps by and by you may write him a few lines, which would 

 gratify him very much Some of our people ren- 

 dered themselves ridiculous by deifying Dickens and run- 

 ning mad after him, and he has repaid them with abuse, 

 proving himself a man of low and vulgar mind. The 

 attentions to Mr. and Mrs. Lyell were, on the contrary, very 

 proper, calm, respectful, and kind, without adulation or 

 folly. You will see a good paper and drawings by Owen 

 in the July number of the Journal, proving, as you have 

 heard, that the impression is artificial. My son thanks you 

 for all the kind things you say of him. I now hear his 

 voice, with his mother and sisters, and his lovely wife, all 

 of whom love you, and send their kindest remembrance, 

 which you will also present to your daughter and to Regi- 

 nald, to whom, I observe, you have very properly dedicated 

 your little book. We will jog Bailey as to his omissions ; 

 and Benjamin says he will forward to you some of the Vir- 

 ginia earth, and write to you soon. 



FROM DR. MANTELL. 



SURREY, August 12, 1843. 



PRAY thank your excellent son for his postscript, 



which breathes the same kind spirit with yours. May 



