will impair your fair & deserved fame. I believe I said or wrote to you last year about all that I could suggest now on that point. I must add however that when you speak of ‘professed friends’ in the plural, implying they are not true friends, I cannot admit its just application to myself, nor am I certain that you so intend it, but it is not worth giving you a second thought. I can appreciate & make allowance for your feelings, especially with a peculiar physical temperament, & I shall remain as I ever have been your faithful

friend,

B. Silliman

Profr Hitchcock

D^r. Deane I believe will not reply to your rejoinder if I understand him correctly, but as he has added some sentences to his proof, you will receive it again.

Both you & he are honorably noticed in Dr. Mantell’s Medals of the Creation of which I have had only a glance, & his conviction is disclosed fully.