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I inclose a letter I received yesterday from
My title here is "Professor of Chemistry Mineralogy and Geology.["] The second of these sciences can
be taught only by means of specimens and for enabling the Professor to teach it
the no purchases of minerals whatever. For the department
of Geology a purchase to the amount of fifteen dollars was made by
If the interest of
the sum so employed deducted from my own salary — so that no
alteration should be made in the amount of ways and means actually at their
disposal
I should consider myself as sufficiently repaid by the superior precision and accuracy given to my own knowledge and the advantages afforded the students.
Having resided in this city during the last 6 weeks, there has been some delay in the attention which I should otherwise have paid to the contents of thy letter.
My Cabinet of Minerals has been estimated to be worth, as minerals sell in this country, from 1500 to 1800$.
It contains many specimens of rare value, not merely from their rarity
& beauty but from their history. Many of them have the labels in the
autographs of
The lowest price that I have yet offered the collection at is
$1500. There have been hitherto but few applications, &
rather than keep it long on hand, I am willing to reduce the price to
$1250. This is as low as I should be willing to go at present,
& compared with the cost of one of the early cabinets purchased by
My residence will be in
It contains 3000 specimens of all the common and many of the rare species. A
large proportion has been obtained during 20 years from eminent
mineralogists of
Apply to