which I would publish if I were sure there is no mistake in the affair. Will you give me your opinion for I should not like to make a stake about birds as early as the new red sandstone & then be laughed at as F___h was for his rhinoceros jaw. 

D^r Bowditch put into my hand the memoir of Fourier & I read it except the mathématique. I think it very interesting & at some time would like to publish it. But you will observe in the no. now coming out that the next no. is already nearly preoccupied & my pigeonhole is now pregnant with communications which might lie over for the January no. The Journal will live a while longer but I am put to an enormous expense for prints—$350 at present.

M^rs Hitchcock made your eastern journey pleasant for you, for when a good wife is with her husband there is always home. My best regards to her. M^rs Silliman is at Hartford or she would join, as ever yours very truly,

B Silliman