
          Acompanying [Accompanying] this I send you a paper containing
 an acount [account] of fossil bones of the great Saurian Basilosaurus.
 I think I can yet find the head belonging
 to that skeleton. I only stoped [stopped] searching for want of
 time. If I can find the head I want to exhibit
 it in N.Y. so as indemnify me for expenses & then
 present it to the N.Y. Lyceum. The bones obtained would
 be a great acquisition to the Lyceum of which I hope some
 day to become worthy of being a member.


 Allentown Ala.
 19 Septr [September]


 Prof. J. Torrey
 No. 30. McDougal St
 New York


 I wish Dr. Gray would send me his published account
 of his excursion to N. Carolina. It would be of great service
 to me next summer because I may return home through 
 that state. I wish you would write to me soon after the
 receipt of this & advise me what course I had better
 take next summer. I shall take a horse & buggy &
 devote myself entirely to the business of collecting. Shall
 leave here in December after which you need not direct anything
 for me to this office. I hope [crossed out: you] to hear from you soon
 & to receive by mail the 2nd vol. of the Flora. 


 Yours truly S. B. Buckley

        