do and you shall know the result & proofs will be forwarded to you.

As you cite the opinions of friends on this side of the Atlantic, perhaps it is fair that you should know what is written to us from the other side. A very eminent geologist to whom we had never named the controversy or in any way alluded to it in relation to him, expresses recently in a letter to my son, & subsequently in one to myself, his great regret that you have thought it necessary to bring this matter before the public, as I [(continued onto page 3) suppose he learned from the report of the meeting at Washington.] I would only suggest that if you could somewhat alter a few sentences in your phraseology so as to let the narrative of facts speak for itself, omitting constructive inferences as to what constitutes discovery & leaving the scientific world to pass judgment, it would have been better. Your language is mild & kind but it will I suspect be thought to depress D^r Deane lower than an active & intelligent observer ought to be placed. Remember that these suggestions are from your earliest geological friend and one who stood by you & vindicated you from the first in this matter & has never swerved since. Take the suggestions for what they are