
          What is the matter with [Constantine Samuel] Rafinesque?
In the March number of the New York 
Monthly Magazine we are not amused
with the usual quantity of the new
names and wonderful acts of Mr. R. written
by himself. Now do appoint some member
of your society to write half a dozen
pages every month in praise of Rafinesque. 
Then I presume would would willing
to donate part of him time to some other 
subject. I have defended him in New
England, until I am ashamed to mention
his name. His name is absolutely becoming
a substitute for egotism. Even the
ladies here, often adorn their witticisms
with the name of Rafinesque, applied in 
the same. They talk of the science of 
Rafinesquism, meaning to most fulsome
and disgusting manner of speaking
on one's own praise.

Since I printed by Index I have 
found, in the western range of porphyritic
gneiss, cartloads of the ost beautiful
crystals of adularia imaginable - 
also vast quantities of magnetic iron ore.
        