Maa aes eee ee 
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received quite certainly within the year. I have only 
to say further that the college has now one hundred 
students, is situated in a beautiful village nine miles 
from Utica, has the best college buildings of any in 
the State, has a good faculty, ete. I urged the prom- 
ise I had made of the visit to Georgia, which this plan 
would entirely frustrate, but promised to give him a 
definite answer within a fortnight. 
T ean scarcely think of postponing my southern 
tour for another season; but the question comes to 
this, whether, in the present state of my finances, I 
had better expend $100 in that visit or earn $200 in 
the same time. I could also, I think, continue my 
engagements here in July and August, by which a 
little more of the trash might be pocketed, and return 
to New York in time to make a September excursion 
to the dearly beloved pine barrens of New Jersey, and 
spend the early part of fall in botanical work, and 
the winter in your laboratory. The term closes here 
the 23d of April (a little earlier than I supposed) ; so 
if the original plan is pursued I shall be in New York 
by the 26th of that month. If not, I shall be disen- 
gaged for a month, a portion of which I should like to 
devote, with my friend Dr. Crawe, to the minerals 
of St. Lawrence County. So rests the case. I told 
Dr. H. that I should write immediately to you, and 
be governed in a good degree by your answer. 
I have such a dislike to the appearance of vacilla- 
tion which results from changing one’s plans when 
fully formed, that were it not for certain ulterior ad- 
vantages, and that I wish to comply with the wishes, 
as far as may be, of a person to whom I am much 
obliged, I should promptly decline Dr. Hadley’s 
offer. 
