
          I should have given you some particulars of my journey
had not the Troy Lyceum passed a resolution to
publish [added: extensive] extracts from my letters, written on the journey, 
to their Corresponding secretary.

I will say a little about your correspondents, which
you intend to encrease[increase] &c.[etc.] Dewey will be a good and faithful
one. And after Williams College is removed to
Northampton, his sonsequence in the scientific world
will be reatly encreased[increased]. I know little of Lewis Beck;
but T. R. Beck, though a pretty good fellow, is
too much given to suffring[suffering]. He expects to make
much of a few extracts and borrow materials,
repecting album, which [added: he] is now reading in a series
of [epoys?] before the Society of Arts [added: to be published]. This made me
sick, but as he is a friend to me, to Dewey &c[etc.] I
will swallow it as well as I can. Tracy is clever and
will act an under part very well; but is deficient
in ballast and cargo. Edwin James is everything
great and noble; but the rascal hates writing letters.
I was never with Edwin an hour without receiving a
new thought. Hitchcock is persevering and a good fellow.
His advantages have been very limited, and he i wrong-headed
when he is set so, by a misinterpreted hint
from Silliman. On the whole he is too servile in
all his views, for a naturalist. Ives is an excellent
fellow. But you must be face to face with him. He
will never do any thing he promises. But he will have
fifty patients and ramble over all the world with you,
and do all he can with the best motives, until you
are out of sight. Dr. Robbins of Troy is minutely accurate,
persevering and good. Dr. Hale is a fine fellow to visit;
but will never write a letter.

I wish I could see your Cooper, and several others of 
your [?]. What has become of Stephen [Nos?]?

You say you offered the Troy Lyceum some saw grass from

        