
          propose to add. But the fact is, it is miserable, when
compared with Chouland. And the poor fellows will
be poorer, by trying to make it answer in the [room?]
of Chouland, for one, who means to do any thing, will
get Chouland after all. There are many dabblr's who
would buy Phillips & not Chouland on account of the expense,
but even those had better buy Chouland to encourage the
work. Still an edition of Phillips would sell, but you
would not recommend it to one who meant to know much
about Mineralogy as a substitute for Chouland. This is all.
I should be glad of a copy. That new mineral is not
Fibrolite, & will, I suspect, turn out nothing but Epidote.
By the way that [compart?] mineral from [Cunnington?] can not be
Epidote, melts into a white marl, look at it, it is more
Augite, if not Tremolite. I want a Diamond for a
mineralogical specimen. I am desirous of one, that will
show the thing, that is all I want.

I am terribly in want of some Potassium,
I must go to work & make it, I fear, & I dread the
job awfully. If I had a little, I could get on,
but some I must have. If it is in your
city, do let me have it.

I have much to say yet,
but I am obliged to stop. Miss Griffin goes to N.Y.
to visit her uncle George G. His son, Edmund,
knows you a little, I believe, & I hope you will get
this ere long, even before Mr. Wright leaves this
city. Do tell me about my plants.

With much respect your friend

C. Dewey

Dr. J. Torrey
        