
          it is given up. There is considerable room
for criticisms on minerals & localities & other things,
which would make out a piece of some length
& importance. And the work must be improved
by publish or private notices. In our journals
it is perfectly fair to give the names of writers, if
it be done always. But I can not endure the
manner of crediting the N. Am. [North American] Review,
in which all is sent about authors, & yet a
list of the writers is regularly on the [appearance?]
of a number handed about the literary [inks?] 
in Boston & vicinity, & often not this [plan?].

How do like the quarrel between Mr. Nuttall 
& Mr. [Henry] Seybert? Both have the advantage, & both
appear well & ill.

I have done nothing about minerals for some time. 
That gray augite, I have none better than I 
sent you, & not much of it. I expect often about
four days to work at minerals & plants, & to forward
you a box by the Steam Boat, soon 
as I can get them up. They could not go by
M. W., if they were packed now.

Hitchcock's paper in the journal of Silliman
is very excellent, in various respects. I read your
paper, with interest. The shells are too far off for 
me. In the next No. [number] I have have a paper
        