
          can get one for your Lyceum either the first or second
 edition. I should prefer to delay the application till the
 second edition is completed when I promise to attend
 to it if alive.


 Have you got Ampere's great Electro-Dynamic
 apparatus? I have it but by mistake no description
 was sent with it & I find myself greatly troubled
 to use it. If you have a description more recent than
 that inserted in the 26th volumne of the Annals de Chemie [?]
 & are willing to lend it me for a few weeks I shall be
 greatly obliged to you if you will send it to me by mail
 or otherwise.


 The bearer is Mr Nathan Belcher a graduate of
 our College & my former assistant in chemistry. He
 goes to reside in N. York & would be very glad to have
 opportunity to give some attention to natural history.
 He has quite a taste for this subject & I think bids
 fair to do something for it if he preserves in attention
 to it under favorable circumstances. He is very modest &
 amiable.


 [Pro.?] Hovey has been obliged to resign his place
 here in account of his health - and I fear he may never be
 able to fill a professorship on this account.


 Truly and sincerely yours


 Edward Hitchcock


 P.S. I have concluded upon this whole to spare a copy of
 my Report for the N. Y. Lyceum & beg you to present it when
 you think proper.


   
        