
          Wms. College April 21st 1820.

Dear Sir,

I take the liberty of introducing to you Mr. E.
Emmons, one of our Alumni. He visits N. York for a few
days, & carries with him some minerals, which perhaps
yourself or Mr. [?] or Col. Gibbs may wish to have in
exhange for some of your duplicates. Mr. Emmons be
longs to Middlefield, & discovered that Serpentine etc. &
probably carries some valuable specimens. He has
attended some to mineralogy, & observes pretty acutely. He
would be glad to have you point to him your localities
of minerals. And should not you like his minerals, per
haps you will direct him to some one. He is a medical
Student tho' he has not possessed many advantages 
yet. He will be greatful for any attention you
can bestow on him.

Your last letter I have just recd. & can not answer it
now. I always remember you, when I have [minerolis?], &
shall continue to do so. I have just finished lecturing on
Mineralogy & Geology to a class &, am beginning on Botany.
Some of our students wish to attend to it - & I shall aid
them by talking [?] them. I have written to [?]
Land.  Our friend Eaton is now Prof. of Botany in the
Med. Acad. in Vermont & will lecture there in June.
His [Geol.?], greatly enlarged, will soon be out of the press. I
hope he has been careful. I recd. a line from him the
other day he seemed full of life.

I thank you for
plants etc. now on the way to me. I shall send you you some
in May, if I can. Our plants are a little earlier this
year.

With much respect Your friend

Chester Dewey

Dr. J. Torrey

        