
          Rochester Jan. 30. 1860.

My Dear Sir,

I have two letters from
you, & have not find time to
thank you, or to say a thing or
two.

You would see in
Ward's collection, a great many
minerals, more than in Geology,
many more than you apprehend.
Additions to the minerals are continually
coming, which he has been
collecting all over Europe, so that
his minerals will be fine. True
the geolc. specimens are many & admirable,
but just what your College
wants in both departments of
the mineral kingdom. I hope Columbia
College will be able to get
the cabinet, & fill the empty boxes
& [?] them. You ought to
have such a collection in N. York.

That you will settle, as you
must, I hope that the [field?] will
        