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take a three years course instead
of two. But if anything is to be
given up for the present, let
it rather be the Natural History.
This can wait better than the
other.

I do not think the in-
coherence of your speech, of which
you speak, will be any great ob-
stacle to success as a lecturer.
Practice, and training will over-
come this, and especially a
careful preparation of the subject
matter of your discourse, and a
deliberate enunciation of it after-
wards. You write very well; and
if you talk as well, there will
be no difficulty.

A good plan would be
to agree with Prof. Evans ^{or the University} to make
a collection of Illinois animals
in three years as you suggest; he
or it to pay the necessary ex-
penses of travel and transporta-
tion, alcohol &c, not to exceed
a certain sum; and you to
have an additional compensation