
          One other question unless you have become impatient.
Can you tell me whether my letter addressed to the corresponding
Secretary of the date of yours above alluded to,
advising him of the shipment of a box of rock specimens
from Lake Superior, for the Lyceum, has ever been received?
It was late in the season when the specimens left Fort Brady
& the letter was sent still later by private conveyance. For 
those reasons I have been apprehensive that neither had been
received.

With respectful & friendly
consideration, I am your obt. servt. [obedient servant]
Z. Pitcher.

Professor Jno. [John] Torrey
N. York.

Please direct the publisher of the Annals of the Lyceum to forward
me the nos. [numbers] henceforward as [crossed out: they] soon as they are published.
Z.P.

        