
          I hope you have received my port-folio by the Kentucky. I shall
send another soon. I have one in progress containing about 
150 species. I found or rather purchased the other day
of a sailor several specimens of the brown mouthed [toothed]
cowry, Cyprea [Cypraea] fusco-dentata. Gray. Monog. [Monograph of the Cypraeidae]. I have not
the honor to correspond with the Lyceum but if your
shell man considers it curious, as marked by Gray,

John Torrey M.D.
New York.

shall take pleasure in sending a suite of the several
ages through you. By the by, when I lived at Jackson
I picked up in the bed of a stream a number of rolled
pebbles (silicious [siliceous]) containing turbinales favorites & the older
multilocular remains. They belong to the diluvial beds of that country.
They are scandalous looking specimens mere gravel, but I can
send a few quarts of them if they are of any importance.

Truly yours
T.R. Ingalls.

        