
          Lt. Bailey to send down the engravings as soon as they are ready, & you
may expect to receive them in the course of a week or ten days from
this time.

I did not know till Monday last, that a committee of the Lyceum
had been corresponding with you respecting a short course of
geological lectures at the Lecture-room of our Society. Two or
three months ago it was determined that we must have an
associate Course of lectures this winter, for many of our subscribers
gave us their money in the expectation of receiving some
return in knowledge from the members of our Society. It is not
the intention of Lyceum to reap any pecuniary benefit 
from these lectures, but merely to satisfy our friends and patrons.
The committee spoke to Dr. Mc Murtrie [added: & myself] some time since & enquired
whether we are willing to make an engagement for
the Lyceum, but no definite arrangements were made. It
appears to me that you might give us a few lectures, without
interfering with an engagement in some other part of the 
city. Our patrons are mostly up-town people & you might
deliver another course in Clinton Hall, or in Brooklyn. I don't
know whether you would consider it an object to come here for
our Society alone, unless you do it [crossedout: ?] to oblige us. It would certainly
be very agreeable to me to be associated with you in a
        