
          to put down old and active zealots in Science.
Did you see my letter to your [Prest.?]? Did
you see his answer? Take the two letters,
and I appear to be some begging wretch,
and your Lyceum a dispensing soup-house.
Perhaps I may have one dish of soup, if I
will lie about the door two or three frosty nights,
and big well. I proposed presenting the Lyceum
with the most perfect suit of American Geological
specimens; and with them to illustrate my
views of geology. Presuming, that I should be
treated with civility. I gave my students notice
of it. Six or eight fine young fellows called
on your Lyceum keeper. He told them, he
knew nothing about it. I recd.[received] your Prest.[President's] letter,
[added: cold and formal] long after I had seen them, it seems to have
been delayed without any apparent cause
probably the Nobleman had not given his answer 
in season. Fudge! Fudge! Fudge! Fudge!!!!

Henry and the Becks, alone, are doing more
than all of your Lyceum, excepting [yourself?].
Much is done by  the Thomases and others [?].

I [?] will not do at this day. Our
country folks are outrunning you, excepting what
depends on foreign correspondence, I mean such 
as getting [?] elected members of foreign
societies [crossed out: ?] [added: by paying Babbage's tariffs, &c[etc.]] Mr. Brooks is member of the
Linnean Society in Paris. This was right. He
married Sikin's sister. She is an excellent
botanist, and has sent 300 drawings of
American plants to the Society. He told me, he 
scarcely knows the meaning of the word botany;
and his appointment was his wife's. All
this is right in N. York!!! The day of imposition
is almost over. Doctors Grahams (L.L.D.) will not
be so common hereafter; even if in N. York.

I sent for your Nat. Orders last week, not 
out. I want it much. All you do alone in
your own office, is well done. So I tell my students.

Your affectionate friend,
Amos Eaton.

[vertical note in left margin]
[drawing of a finger pointing to the following note]
These sentiments are correct and just;
but the act of publishing them wouldnot
be just. Therefore this letter in inter nos. 

        