
          I will beg to request if
 at your convenience, that you
 may please place the parcel
 (addressed to me) in hands of
 the Librarian of the New York
 Lyceum of Natural History,
 University Medical College,
 14th Street, New York --as Mr. Morris
 will have kindness to
 receive and finally transmit
 any parcels from inst'ns. [institutions]
 [authors?] at your city, designed [destined]
 for our Library.


 I must say, that I will
 be very glad if you may
 allow your valuable influence
 towards procuring the series
 of Publications of the Lyceum of
 Natural History for our Library--
 it is a desideratum
 to render complete as possible
 our extended series of
        