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find it the counterpart of the specimen in 

 your museum; or very nearly in the same 

 state of preservation. 



Having just lately received my books, I 

 also inclose a pamphlet from Ehrenberg, 

 which he desired me to leave with you, and 

 also the books Professor Silliman has had the 

 kindness to lend me. ... I have made many 

 observations which I wish to publish, but I 

 can find no time to write them for you now. 

 I must wait till the weather is so dull as to 

 bring nothing into the hands of gunners and 

 fishermen. . . . 



So closed his first year in America. The 

 second unfolded events both in the home he 

 had left and in the one to which he had un- 

 consciously come, which were to shape his 

 future career, and exert the most powerful in- 

 fluence upon his whole life. 



