
          Geological, Mineralogy, & Zoology. Collection to Ann Arbour
within a find [?] but do not propose making it my
permanent residence until the next fall, when it is proposed
to make a commencement in the university- As I will
be compelled to take temporary [?] of the department
of Chemisty, my mind will be a little abstracted, at first
from the subject, over which I have been given a more
direct Choice-
The embarassments existing in the financial
would must necessarily move or [be?] cripple the
institution at first but I think we have good
reason to believe that [before?] long she well rise
above it.
I am much pleased to learn that you will 
make a effort for the coming winter, for it will be of much
[?] to us in the Survey of this State, but I now fear
our first report will appear without as much of Botany
as could have been wished-the condition of our State
finances has been asn "eye sore" to progress & this was the
sole reason- for the resignation of Dr. Wright- I cannot speak
too highly of his Dr. W's qualifications as a man of science or of his
moral worth; & his abandoning the work under his charge has been
to me one of the most severe trials I have had to encounter-
We suffer much for the want off books, but i have expanded
from time to time all my surplus mean to enlarge my library
& have imported many other expansive foreign works, so that I
have now a very tolerable library, but when I look
        