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and the Academy can ill spare such a sum to his prejudices.

Notwithstanding this, he has never sent them either copies of his work, nor recognizable types of his species, of which many were described from their collections- and the surveys.

Worn beach shells of well known species unfit for types or cabinet are all we have yet rec'd.  There is not much consolation in this sort of thing to a collector who has sent all his collections, not to be able to identify the commonest California shells by any aid of his.  Thus far undeniably, Americans have done the work, and the English men have rec'd the benefits.  We are ready and willing to pay him for his books, but to receive either mutilated  proofs or copies [[underlined]] "to be returned without fail" [[/underlined]] is rather aggravating.  I am not speaking for my self, but for Newcomb, Cooper, the Survey, Stearns and all the conchologists here.  Prof.