
          I want you to show me how to perform
some chemical experiments, which I could
not succeed in last winter. You know I
am a [?] chemist among other
things.

If you do not come by the next 
boat after receiving this; do not neg. [neglect]
but to write. What has become of your 
catalogue? Will the Lyceum be anything?
Doct. Moses Hale of Troy has a collection
of plants, collected and named in the old
way, by [J.J. Nosseau?] himself. It
was given him by [Nossseau's?] nephew
who died at [Hale's?] house. He proposed
to give it to the Lyceum. But a
New York doctor (I have forgotten his
name) told him, the Lyceum was a boyish
thing, and would never be anything,

        