CORRESPONDENCE WITH SCIENTIFIC MEN. 51 



TO MR. WILLIAM MACLURE. 



NEW HAVEN, November 4, 1835. 



As I am thus successful with the many, I have 



even considered whether it was not my duty to throw my- 

 self abroad and loose myself, at least in part, from rny con- 

 nection with the College, that I might benefit the people, 

 while I impose upon them a trifling tax. I think I might 

 agree with the College to be absent a part of the year, but 

 I must relinquish a part of my salary ; and it might not be 

 prudent to risk the welfare of my family by relinquishing a 

 certainty, although a small one, for the caprice of popular 

 favor, which may change. I think, however, by relinquish- 

 ing $300 or $400 per annum of my salary, I might get 

 liberty to be absent permanently in March and April, 

 which are term-time, and the only part of the year when I 

 would lecture in cities, as I must be here for the winter 

 chemical course 



The high respect which Professor Silliman enter- 

 tained for the celebrated geologist, Robert Bakewell, 

 has been already express'ed in a passage from the 

 " Reminiscences." Mr. Bakewell was a man of 

 marked individuality, an original explorer and thinker 

 in the field of geology. There are few more racy 

 letters among Mr. Silliman's papers than those from 

 him, portions of which are here presented. It should 

 be stated that Mr. Bakewell was attached in religion 

 to the school of Priestley and Belsham, with which 

 Mr. Silliman, of course, did not sympathize. 



FROM MR. ROBERT BAKEWELL. 



HAMPSTEAD (near London), February 2, 1830. 



THE remains of the enormous Iguanodon have 



at length been discovered out of Sussex ; a portion of the 



