
          Ansd. [Answered] July 10th

Amsterdam [N.Y.] July 8, 1939

My dear sir,

I received from you sometime in the spring the 
proposition to furnish me the instrument for the condensation 
[added: or solidification] of carb. [carbolic] acid thru a friend of yours who is a very clever man 
& worthy of patronage. I shall be glad to procure one 
& therefore wish you to order one for me as the letter in which you mention 
the name of your friend is not by me. Any improvements in the way of 
simplification in the mean time to be added &c.

I am now going to Jefferson & St. Lawrence Cost. [Counties]. Some portions of 
Jefferson seemed to exhibit rather an interesting flora. Anything 
which you can specify I shall be very glad to procure for 
you. You may write me (if you write soon) at Watertown. 
I hope to procure at this time some good phosphate of lime. 
By the way Dr. Beck writes me that the Eupyrchroite is a phosphate 
of lime. Well, you will [?] that my own experiments pointed that out, 
but [crossed out: still] I supposed & still I think that it contains alumin that it 
is a phos. [phosphate] of lime & alumin. I have made [added: no] examination except the 
hasty one previous to the publication of the report of 1838.

Hastily
Yours with respect & esteem 
E. Emmons
        