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Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart & other places, travelling for several years. By this I had the opportunity to make my collection of European fossils. In 1848 I emigrated to this country on account of the political troubles, where I was engaged for many years in the distillery business. After I had been successful in business, my love for science revived and being able to spend monney for it, I had my collections send from Europe and began to collect from the american formations, partly by visiting localities myself or by a man I employed. The beautiful collection of Crinoids from Crawfordsville Ind I obtained by working & quarrying with a large force of men [insert: & cash] in the crinoidal beds of that locality for some months, shipping the rocks by car loads to Cincinnati, from which the specimens had to be worked out with chissels, and in the same way I had worked in some other localities. My idea was to bequeath my collections to some scientific institution, but great misfortunes ruined me financially and I must see now to realize wherever I can.

My present occupation is to make a geological survey of N. Alabama, for the N. A. Land & Emigration Co of the lands it bought of the Louisville & [Nashu?] RRC. The season prohibiting much outdoorwork for some time