
          I hope that what you have promised to send will cross with
this box & that you will be on reception of this, make me an adequate
return in your scarce plants etc.  I mean to send you another
Box in a month or so with many shells & fossils & minerals etc.

In my last letter I have sent you a Bill lading of [illegible] book
for me arrived from Germany fr. [from] schooner Aurora Cap. [Captain] Warren
to be called for in my name at Mes. [Messieurs] Edwards n [number] 63 Sout h
Street.  I repeat, the request to send that parcel of books
the two parcels rec'd [received] from England by Dr. Mitchill, etc. to Mr.
Leaming of Philada [Philadelphia] who will forward them to Mr. Clifford.
But I have forgot till now to request you to call on Mr.
Holley in my name & desire him to give me at least one 
set of the 3rd & 4th volume of the Amer. [American] Monthly Magaz [Magazine]
as I have not yet got them notwithstanding my several
applications.  I hope he will comply & send them on together
with your Plants etc.

I have delayed sending the above until my Annals
of Nature should be published.  I have sent you one by
mail already & to many friends in New York.  I mean to
send you half a dozen in a few days, which you may distribute
for me, give one to Mr. Eaton with my compliments.

Tell the Rev. Mr. Schaeffer that I shall send him 6 to
be sent to Germany to his friends.  Ask him if he as ever
rec'd [received] any thing from them for me.  My Nat. hist. of the 
fishes of the Ohio will only be concluded in the fall.  It will be
a valuable addition to Ichthyology.

I send you a Paper for the Lyceum & next for Sillimans journal.

Believe me as usual  Your good friend  C.S. Rafinesque

(Descriptions of the Talpa sericea) sent to Silliman
        