
          the successful prosecution of the work.

Since being introduced to the fossil animacules
of Prof Baily in your study last June, I have found
the same but much more abundant & finer in the subsoil
of peat meadows in this vicinity. A microscope [?]
manufacture of [Cavey?], London displays these elegant
remains in great beauty & power. The substance in
which they are found by me, is lighter, more friable &
of a more ashen color than the same from West Point.

With Sentiments of great respect & esteem
Yours truly
John Lewis Russell

Dr John Torrey
N York

Enquire of Mr. Tuckerman as to the Lectureship of Bot. & N. Hist. at Harvard
        