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will make up for the informality of this "first of Ex- 

 change." 



Always yours very truly, 



A. Agassiz, 

 Foreign Secretary, N. A. S. 



TO HUXLEY 



Newport, Sept. 10, 1883. 



I am getting now to work seriously at my final Blake 

 Report for the public, and should like greatly for the 

 Cephalopods to include an account of the " Spirula," of 

 which I sent you the only specimen we had for com- 

 parison with those of the Challenger. If you are suf- 

 ficiently well advanced not to need the specimen any 

 longer, I should be glad to have it again. If not, and 

 you could send me proofs of your Plates on the Chal- 

 lenger specimens and a short account of the peculiarities 

 of our specimen for use here, and copy of what you think 

 might be interesting in a popular account of the Natural 

 History of such an expedition as the Blake, I should 

 greatly value it. Of course any such copying of your 

 manuscript as is required, please have done at my ex- 

 pense. I have nearly all the Preliminary Reports of the 

 different departments in, and trust the Report will not 

 be delayed so long that nobody will care to hear about 

 the Blake any longer. 



I hope you have received by this time a short Memoir 

 of mine on the Florida Reefs, and the first part of one 

 on Porpita and Velella, and being old friends of yours 

 may interest you. 



I had the pleasure of having Sir Charles Bowen to 

 dine here (Newport), and am greatly obliged to you for 

 giving me a chance to make his acquaintance. 



