
          Amherst Dec. 16th 1836


 [inserted at left: [Arvd?]. [?] in N.Y. Jany. 16th 1837.]


 Dear Sir,


 I did not intend by the suggestions
 I made in my last letter respecting
 the [casts?] & the lecture to lead you to be at
 so much trouble as you have been I merely
 meant that if you should have occassion to write
 me ere long you might express your opinion
 as to those two things. When I wrote I did not
 know what I have since learnt from Prof. Silliman
 that he is going to N. York to lecture on
 geology in January. If I go there it must be
 during the same month for our vacation commences
 on the 11th & closes on the 25th & I cannot
 go beyond those limits many days one way or
 the other. I suppose this fact settles the
 question as to my lecturing on the bird tracks
 At least I see no way in which it can be done
 I should be willing to give an account of all
 that I know on the subject if there were any
 opportunity & it should be thought that a lecture
 might be ventured on such a subject. It would
 be difficult however to get my large specimens conveyed
 to N. York now that I must probably
 come all the way by land: yet I could bring specimens 
        