
          Those Bank St Lectures are a
 reality I am sorry to say. They are
 a vexation to me because the
 experiments are all they care
 for & I shall make not a chemist
 there. In short I am trapped
 into giving a course of experiments
 with some explanatory remarks.
 I have been strongly inclined to
 bolt & I think I should have
 done so ere now, were it not
 your fixed opinion that I perform
 too few experiments.


 I lectue today in Chlorine, performing
 all  the experiments I can
 think of in Florence flasks.
 Prof. Ellet is now & ^ [inserted: then] ready with some
 capitol advice. Should I be with
 you next winter you may hear
 as much of his new ways as
 of Prof Hitchcocks old ones.


 I had made up my mind not
 to buy the Fl. N. A till the Second
 volume was completed, on that
        