
          But you ought to stay a week or two in Philadelphia.
You will find this time well employed.  My Herbal which
is likely soon to go to Europe deserves your attention before it
goes.  Those in the Acady [Academy] of N. [Natural] Sc [Sciences] will remain & you may
see them at any other time.  Indeed I have in contemplation
to take my Herbarium & Tossils to Paris next year
since here they are not valued as the ought.

I have long wished to visit Paris & publish some works there.
Whether I will be able next year will depend on some casualty.
We must meet before I go & before I pack up.  My fossils form
now a very valuable collection also, beside minerals
Recent shells & other objects.  The whole is for sale since I am
not able to publish them myself as they ought to be.

I wish to see the excellent things you have to show
your plants & books, [crossed out: if you cannot come] [added:but these I can see] next year, as
I shall stay some time in N Yk [New York] before going & depart
from thence.  I am reading now Schoocraft late travels.  Have
you the plants of Houghton, he mentions new ones without names?
Who has named the others.  I doubt some of them.  Cooper has done
me also the injustice to quote Lea & Barnes for the Unios & not
Myself.  Tell him to read the late work of Conrad on the Unios
and become just if he can.

Please to make some enquiry of Mr. Dewey at the office of the
Peace Society Nassau Street if the award for the Premium of the
Peace Society has been offered.  After delays of 2 years it was closed
in June last, but have not heard of any award yet.  Do not
mention my name to any one, but state you enquire for a friend.
And try to find out whether any time will yet elapse, who are
the judges since Mr. Wirt is dead?  And any thing else concerning
the same.  This was a subject on which I desired speakg [speaking] verbally
to you.  I cannot explain in a letter, but you will partly understand
me.  Ask aslo why the Award was so long delayed altho' [although]
several memoirs had been received?  & write me on this if you do
not come.  But I am eager to see you & hope you will gratify
me.  You may come here also after going thru' [through] the Pines from N [north]
to S [south] if you like.  Cedar bridge [added:& the grouse plains] N [north] of Quaker bridge are as good a places.
I was there last year.  Atsion & Taunton are also good places.

I am as usual your sincere friend & well wisher

C.S. Rafinesque
N 110 Nth 10th Street

PS.  If you cannot come, let us exchange. 
Send me all you can spare of interest & I will
do the same & make up a Box.  Have you
rec'd [received] my Herbar. Rafinesquianium?  sent you by mail.
        