and is he still there.! want to get hold of the Proceedings for 1347 
if that is possible.There is a paper in it by Gould on shells of the islands, 
and I believe I told you T am much interested in that subject. I was 
surprised and pained to hear of the death of Prof.Hyatt,from whom I had a 
letter not long since.Meyer writes me that he i3 to bake up the former's 
unfinished work on the Hawaiian shells,and carry it to completion. 
I have just written Meyer asking him if it will be possible to 
borrow for a 3hort time the tyos3 of Gould( a few of them) which T pre¬ 
sume are in the Boston Society.' 
I haye read The Octopus with much interest.I cannot say with muoh 
pleasure for the tale of the greed and the ruthless methods of the 
California railroad makes my blood boil.I was in the stats daring the 
conflict with' the settler^whom they had deluded to take up their 
lands and improve them,and the knowledge of the methods adopted to drive 
the settler* off their farms is not calculated to give one a high opinion 
of Corporation methods.However it is a book to read,and the author id 
likely to be heard from again and, as t hope,on a pleasanter theme.There 
are 3 ome powerful passages in the book,and some of the characters are 
exceedingly well drawn-altogether a notable book. 
I have just sent in the la3t of the manuscript on Hawaiian Birds, 
and hooe to be able ere a great while to be afle to send you a complete 
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copy of the li3t.Now 1 would like bo be able to visit 
the other islands 
