
          from it in Europe where titles etc. are not quite as
cheap and more esteemed than here. Your proposition
in respect to sympathetic ink is worthy the invention
of the friend of the modest Gentlemen you mention

I will do what I can for you in the way of
suggestions in reference to lectures but I think
in that line you will want but little assistance

I would have written to you long since but
learned that you were spending the summer in
the western part of the state and engaged in your
botanical survey Dr Cannahan has just
returned from a tour in Virginia and will send
you a draft for the amount of the cost of the carbonic
acid machine - I have been [duning?] the
whole year almost continuously since my return
from New York last winter engaged in college
affairs and have not fround time nor convenience
for continuing the subject of my last paper although
some new and interesting points have opened to
my view in reference to it since the publication

Mr Faraday has sent me his last paper and in
this, most strange to say he crosses the path of my investigations
but what is still more strange he brings out results
diametrically opposite to the most important results
of my paper. Those results have been incorporated
in the new work of Daniell on Chemistry and
have led Mr Faraday to modify his theory of Electricity

I have since examined the cause of our
        