
          to whom you must write, informing them what [crossed out: the?] it contains and its
 value and designation to forward it for me to their correspondents
 at Paris. Send also a Diploma of Membership for Young [Adolphe-Th�odore] Brongniart
 and [Fran�ois Andr�] Michaux and anyone else you please. If the Lyceum [of Natural History of New York] should produce 
 anything worthy [Georges] Cuvier's acceptance, let me have it, it will be of use
 to me. You know better than I can tell you what are the best ways
 of making the luminaries of science in Europe acquainted with anything
 that is done in America for the advancement of learning and when
 anything is done, no matter how inconsiderable, they should know it in
 order that they may do us justice which as yet I think they are far
 from doing. Not long since there was not a single copy of Wilson's [?]
 in Paris, and the North American Review, a work which would do honor
 to any nation is scarcely known out of America, though it [added: begins to be] read by
 a few in Great Britain.


 I hope you have not forgot my friend Dr. [Friedrich Ernst Ludwig] Fischer.
 I promised him that you would send him something, his
 correspondence would be valuable. I gave you his address
 in one of the last letters I wrote you from Paris. 


 I am afraid this will not reach you in a long time. The vessel by
 which I intended to send it sailed sooner that was expected and I
 [have?] the opportunity. I am to return this afternoon towards Florence
 whence I shall write you by way of L'pool [Liverpool]. My stay here has been longer
 than I intended, but I came in company with Mr. DuBrow the Consul
 at Florence who knows every body in Italy and has procured me many
 acquaintances whom I expect to find useful. The [USS] Constitution & [Sultan?] 
 have been here a few days. I [diced? dined?] with the officers on board the Cons'n [Constitution]
 on Tuesday and for that time felt myself again a freeman, which
 no man can call himself on the Continent of Europe. The officers are
 all fine fellows and aare much respected in all the ports of the Mediterr'n [Mediterranean].
 They are particularly sociable with the British officers at Gibraltar and
 speak in the most favorable manner of their conduct towards them. The squadron
 was in eight when the Greeks set fire to the Turkish Admirals ship in the 
 Straits of Scio last June and I have heard many of the officers speak of this

        