
          Wms. Coll. June 1st 1821.

Dear Sir,

Some days after Mr. Wright returned, I rcd.
a letter from you, which seemed to have come in a way
it did not intend. Mr. W. took a deal of pains to find
your office, & expected to hear from you, & [I?] should have
been glad of the package from Prof. Agardh, tho' I shall
not be vastly the wiser for it I fear. Mr. W. will be
in N. Y. this month, & I shall send by him some
crypts. & minerals for you, - but I hardly know
whether you will be ready to send by him. Last
winter you complained of my neglect, & surely it is
my turn now to complain with better reason.
But I shall not do it - but let us hope for better
things on all sides.

I do not think Dana reviewed Eaton. I suspect
another man - but it is of little consequence. The
Rev. [Review?] of Hayden was meagre enough in the N. A. Rev.
Silliman has talked well of it, as you see, & pretty
well too of Schoolcraft. By the way, Silliman was
here the other day, & I spent two hours very pleasant
ly with him. He is on a short tour into Vermont &
up lake George to Saratoga & down to N. York,
[when/where?] you may see him perhaps in ten or 12 days.

He tells me another No. of the Journal is nearly printed.
I have just sent him for the Geol. Soc. another box
of Minerals. They go from Troy in the Sloop
        