140 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



!e are the same that they were thirty or thirty -five 

 As to Mr. F., I suppose I have seen what you 

 alluded to, a foreign criticism written, I presume, by F. 

 himself. I and my works are a standing topic of sneer or 

 attack with him, but he has the game all to himself, as I do 

 not reply, nor do I feel any serious interest in anything he 

 can say about me. 



TO DR. EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



NEW HAVEN, August 6, 1835. 



MY DEAR SIR, I am much gratified that you are 

 seriously at work upon the turkey-tracks or bird-tracks of 

 whatever kind they may be, and you may rest assured that 

 I shall publish nothing upon the subject until I receive it 

 from you. I will, therefore, expect you to do justice to Dr. 

 I Kane, as you are perfectly acquainted with the circum- 

 ;nd if you see Dr. Deane, I will thank you to 

 intimate to him what I have just said. My impressions are 

 "OMI;- in favor of the genuineness of the discovery, 

 judging only from the imperfect copy I have in plaster, 

 that I i'eel exceedingly desirous to have the matter investi- 

 gated, and I do not know in whose hands it can be better 

 placed. 



It would be a most interesting geological conclusion to 

 >lish, that there were birds at so early an era as the 

 -undstone, and especially that turkeys were gobbling 

 and strutting so long before their rival, man. 



TO DR. EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



February 24, 1836. 



apprise you that Professor Kingsley, having 



'>1r. Stuart's review of your geological discussions, 



it once that the learned but over confident and vaunting 



theologue had laid himself open to an unanswerable reply, 



ail( l '1 him to make it. lie has done it in a 



