I 

 106 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



will be founded after the principles declared in the Pro- 

 i h joined, by the best representatives of our acad- 

 1 forypbivi of science. Would that other com- 

 mittees would associate themselves to contribute to the 



ion of this scientific organon ! 



Hoping that you, respected sir, will accept with kind- 

 ;he invitation, and promulgate the character of it to 

 your countrymen, who loved and admired their glorious 

 " half-American confrere," as he called himself on sev- 

 eral invasions, and pardon the boldness and confidence 

 with which I address you, I have the honor to subscribe 

 myself 



Your most respectful and devoted 



CARL RITTER, 



Dr. and Prof. 



IN, August 8, 1859. 



Among the letters which he received in Europe, 

 was one from his oldest colleague in office. 



FROM PRESIDENT DAY. 



NEW HAVEN, July 26, 1851. 



MY vi KY DEAR FRIEND, I have this day received your 



inter. -tin- letter of the 1st from Milan. Thanks to a 



beneficent Providence which has thus far preserved your 



life and health in the multiplied exposures incident to your 



1 wanderings on the land and on the water. I rejoice 



that y .11 arc able to sustain the labors and exhausting ex- 



'nt of a tour so diversified and so deeply interesting. 



=i -.nit rast to the monotonous tenor of my life at 



Wffice being about the limit of my daily 



'"".si Yet I ought to be grateful that I am in 



11 adapted to my infirm state of health. 



nley, whose travels have been further ex- 



4.vpt and across the desert to Pales- 



; ' turned with no great improvement of his health. 



