my mind not to ask you to insert it. If I am able to make out a history of the subject for the Geological Association perhaps you may be willing to insert that as I hope to avoid anything personal. M^r Moody who discovered the tracks in 1802 & who wished me to correct the statements in the newspapers has taken the matter into his own hand as you may have seen by the papers so that I now feel more at liberty to withhold my communication. I would not have you make any statements on the subject on my account unless you prefer to do it. D^r Deane showed me his drawings of the fine slabs he has in his possession. They are beautifully executed & I urged him to send them to your journal with a description as I suppose from your letter he has done. Do not trouble yourself to send me a proof of his paper as I am not anxious to see it till the Journal arrives. D^r Dana is pushing his researches on the Coprolites. Prof. Shepard may have told you that he could not make out the phosphates in them. But I think if he were to see the details of D^r Dana’s experiments he would be satisfied that they do exist although not to be discovered by his experiment with potassium. D^r D. is performing an incredible amount of labour upon them: but he is stimulated by the prospect of very interesting results.

I read a paper before the Geological Association at Albany giving the result of an analysis of wines from Palestine, Syria &c, & of American cider.