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and Mrs. Upton, as well as Mr. Jonathan Russell who 

 had joined them in Rome. We expect to go along with 

 the Milton aunts as far as Vienna and perhaps to Mun- 

 ich, as they are traveling now quite rapidly, intending 

 to get to Paris the last part of May. I have had a very 

 interesting time in Northern Italy and am glad I have 

 seen so much of it, and was very pleasantly surprised at 

 the energy and intelligence displayed in the scientific 

 establishments which seem to me far superior (not in 

 means of course, but in spirit) to the French schools of 

 similar character. At Bologna I missed Capellini. They 

 are to have a Congress for Anthropology there in 

 Bologna some time in October, on which occasion he is 

 to play Grand Mogul. 



At Florence, Mr. C showed me all there was to 



be seen, and we talked over what they could send us and 

 what they wanted. He has already quite a lot of things 

 almost ready which a Mr. de Ancona, a very pleasant 

 assistant here, is putting up for us little by little. They 

 have fine fossils from the Val d'Arno, mostly verte- 

 brates, but unfortunately they are not in good enough 

 condition to be cast, and they have mostly unique pieces 

 collected a long while ago. They have a few casts which 

 they will send us by and by, and plenty of Tertiary fos- 

 sils, also some fine fishes and Tufa Lias and Cretaceous 

 fossils specially, which are most wonderful as a fauna, 

 resembling more our primary American Faunae ! Medina 

 Sandstone, than anything else I know. This fauna is not 

 yet worked up, but will be in course of time ; a Marquis 

 Strozzi is at work upon them now. There are some of 

 the most puzzling marine foot-prints and impressions 

 which I wonder what he will make out of them. I wish 

 I had had time to go to Pisa and Leghorn, where since 



