Fourier, but as it cannot be very soon, owing to the amount of copy on hand, I would not wish you to restrain its appearance if you wish it earlier & have a channel of publication which would be agreeable to you.

I will place Boué in the hands of Mr. Cook of the Christian Spectator along with Boase on the primitive rocks. I do not recollect any other new work that I think would be interesting to you. I should like to know your opinion of Boase.

As to F_ he is not worth the powdered ball that might be shot at him were it not that he is so arrogant & offensive. I believe I can tell you the length & breadth of his appointment. Mr. Wilde of Georgia told me in Boston last fall that they had succeeded in “smuggling through Congress” an appropriation of 9000$ attached to some bill by some covert name & that they would have never got it through had the design of applying it to geological objects been avowed.

Now under this appropriation, for which he had been two years fishing at Washington