as I hope so soon to see you.

D^r Deane writes to me of very extraordinary discoveries of late & I propose to stop over Tuesday the 26th with him. If convenient to you to proceed with me to Greenfield I should be greatly gratified, or to drive up the next morning or to meet us at any intermediate place, if there is any one that is interesting. I have not the smallest objection to your publication as far as I am concerned, but it strikes me as unnecessary since you are on all hands, as far as I am informed, regarded as the author & founder of the ornithichnology of the earliest bird ever & no one can deprive you of this honor. I am greatly surprised at the state of your feelings & very much regret that you did not at Boston frankly tell me how you felt & I would at once & before the association have made it all right & I cannot persuade myself that it is now essentially wrong.

As ever truly yours,

Prof Hitchcock              B Silliman