262 LOUIS AGASSI z. 



A letter of this date from Professor Silliman, 

 of New Haven, Connecticut, marks the begin- 

 ning of his relations with his future New Eng- 

 land home, and announces his first New Eng- 

 land subscribers. 



Yale College New Haven, > 



United States of N. America, April 22, 1835. > 



. . . From Boston, March 6th, I had the 

 honor to thank you for your letter of January 

 5th, and for your splendid present of your 

 great work on fossil fishes — livraison 1-22 

 — received, with the plates. I also gave a 

 notice of the work in the April number of 

 the Journal ^ (this present month), and repub- 

 lished Mr. Bakewell's account of your visit 

 to Mr. Mantell's museum. 



In Boston I made some little efforts in be- 

 half of your work, and have the pleasure of 

 naming as follows : — 



Harvard University, Cambridge (CamJ)ridge 

 is only four miles from Boston), by Hon. 

 Josiah Quincy, President. 



Boston Athenaeum, by its Librarian. 



Benjamin Green, Esq., President of the Bos- 

 ton Natural History Society. 



I shall make application to some other insti- 



1 The American Journal of Science and Arts. 



