New Haven Sept^r 12, 1844

To Prof Hitchcock

dear Sir,

Soon after, if not with this letter, you will receive a proof of D^r Deane’s reclamation. As you have both of you stated your facts and signed your case, I hope that both of you will agree to let the cause go to the grand tribunal of the scientific world without rejoinder. Should you however reply, we beg that it may be brief & prompt: the Journal is more than full so the end of the month will soon bring us up. If you have any thing to add that appears to you indispensable, it will be necessary to send a MS copy of your remarks to D^r Deane as well as to me, without delay, & he will do the same by you should he give to your rejoinder a surrejoinder; but you will both remember that there must be a last word & you must stop somewhere--in my judgment it were better to stop where you are and in any event stop to ^we must in this No & vol; the coral controversy and the bird track discussion have recently presented new frictions in the Journal which we would exceedingly regret to have assume a