
          Dec 6th 1836

#Professor Silliman

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course of scientific lectures. You may think that the tenor of this
letter is deifferent from that of my last, but such is not the case,
I advised you not to lecture for the [added: pecuniary] benefit of a society & we certainly have
no wish to make money by [crossed out: the] your labours. If you should take up with
our offer, would you accept of an invitation to lecture elsewhere in N.Y
or in Brooklyn?

Mr. Hitchcock's strange tracks that he has found in Connecticut must be the
Chairothesrium figured by Buckland! Have you the new work of this
Prince of Geologist? It is a splendid thing.

Yours truly & affectionately
John Torrey

        