(From the "Atlantic Monthly," August, 1860.)) The copy which you have I want to send to Pictet, as I told A.Gray I would, thinking from what he said he would like this to be done.

I doubt whether it would be possible to get the October number reprinted in this country; so that I am in no hurry at all for this.
I had a letter a few weeks ago from Symonds on the imperfection of the Geological Record, less clear and forcible than I expected.

I answered him at length and very civilly, though I could hardly make out what he was driving at.

He spoke about you in a way which it did me good to read.
I am extremely glad that you like A.Gray's reviews.

How generous and unselfish he has been in all his labour! Are you not struck by his metaphors and similes?
I have told him he is a poet and not a lawyer.
I should altogether doubt on turtles being converted into land tortoises on any one island.