
          Recd. [Received] Decr. 16
from Mr. Mather

Albany December 13 1837

My dear Sir

I am in want or shall be soon of the result 
of your experiments on the minl. [mineral] water I left on your 
table. I believe I had left in Wmston [Williamstown] the efflorescence 
of the same saline substance which I resend for my own 
examination. I have no means of processing any more 
& must therefore depend on you for the application of tests 
unless you can forward the bottle to me. 
Again I want you to take the sp. gr. [specific gravity] of those two 
minls [minerals] I left with you, for so far as I can hear 
there is not a balance in this City, & also to 
make such father examinations as you see fit. 
The White minl [mineral] I think will from take a new one. 
I have taken up my residence in this City. My family 
is here, & I am settled down in convenient [added: & quiet] rooms 
in Montgomery Hall. I would like to see you 
here. How much of a report do you make? 
Tell Dr. De Kay that the [?] is the atlas of a horse 
& the hollow tooth in my opinion is the tusk of a hog, yet 
I believe there may be found saurian bones with formation 
adjunct to Champlain.

Yours
most sincerely
E. Emmons.

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J.T. [John Torrey]
        