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University of Mich
Ann Arbor 10 Jan 1857

Dear Sir

Your favor of 3d inst was
received several days after its date
and I embrace the very first op=
=portunity to reply as well I can
do it at present

Dr Palmer placed in my hands
recently the slip from the Prairie
Farmer to which you refer as
well as the volume of “Transactions”
for the library for which the Li=
=brarian will send you acknowl=
=edgements. It is gratifying to find
to find in the west and northwest
a few fellow laborers in the de=
=lightful feilds of Natural History
and for this reason I had in=
=tended soon to open a corres=
=pondence with you hoping to
carry out the very ideas which