unique things enough I can assure you & you will find the inhabitants intelligent & amiable.

(I am examining with much interest the tracks on sandstone of which you speak. I have the originals from which your casts were taken & have pushed my investigations at other quarries until I have nearly made out a strong case I think. I expect to prove the existence of at least five distinct species of Grallae as early as our new red sandstone epoch, some of them of great size. But I do not wish to announce this until I will understand the case. I have already spent several days in the investigation & must spend several more. My intention is to offer you a paper on the subject for your January No. of the Journal. I shall give to D^r Deane the credit of having put me upon the track after these relics: but I hope if consistent you will delay his description until you receive mine as I am sure I shall be able to present a more full & satisfactory view of the case than he can do. My paper will be accompanied by one or two plates but they will be very simple.)

I have got a translation nearly executed of Baron Fourier’s Memoir in the Annales de Chimie on internal heat & I hope you will find a place for it ere long. I think this tract is a different memoir from that to