
          papers ought to be read, if others
may be not [?]. Prof. Hall
brought home his papers, & specimens
from Nebraska, unopened. I
think they would have been worth
[hearing?] I fear he did not like
the [?], or results. In Geol.
& especially, Pal., he is [noble?], I
think. To show the abundance
of fossils in some strata, you know,
he has collected 37000 specimens of
one species, in a limited [district?].
I suspect I could get thousands of
[?] in a few rods in length, &
a few feet wide. And, I do not refer
to the case, where the rock is one
mess of shells, as our [Atrypa
hemispherica?], Hall, [?] less
than a fingernail in [mosses/masses?] by
the ten thousand cart load, all
so beautiful, but not separable
into individuals. You must have
had or seen this layer, or I would
send you some.
        