
          I am trying [crossed out: hard] to get along with my course
 of chemical lectures but it is hard work. A considerable
 number of the grasses desired by Dr Gray I believe I have
 on hand: but others I must collect _ This I will do as
 soon as it is in my power. I fear I will not get any
 subscribers for his [book?] except myself. I mean to have it
 if its cost do not exceed my resources: but as I hope
 to come to N. York in the early part of May I will
 delay entering my name till that time. There is
 scarcely any taste for natural history in this part of the
 country among those who have any depth of purse and our
 College is so poor that I cannot get the Trustees to purchase
 many books.


 I did not receive your pamphlet giving reasons
 for resigning your place in the N. Y. University: but I [page torn, word lost]
 one sent to Dr Humphrey & read it with great [interest?].
 It is one of the most extraordinary disclosures of imbecility
 & folly to use no harder words that I ever met with
 in the head of a University - or even a district school. There
 was certainly but one course for you & your fellow laborours
 to adopt consistently with maintaining your characters.


 In disposing of the copies of my Report
 which belonged to me (I had no pecuniary interest in the
 printing) I felt bound to remember first those societies
 of which I was a member & then I wanted to send a few
 to Europe: so that before I got as far as N. York
 Lyceum my stock was so much reduced that I could
 not do as I wished by presenting a copy to its library.
 Our Legislature did not order any copies to be presented
 to learned societies out of the state: yet I think I

        