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Milwaukee Feb. 5th, 1863.

Professor Jules Marcou,
Cambridge,

Dear Sir,-

I have received the pamphlets you so kindly sent me relating to the Principal rocks and fossils. They will be of great use to us at some, I hope not very far distant, time when our rocks of the same age shall be scientifically examined. It was in this state that these most ancient forms of animal life are first discovered by the late lamented Owen.

I wish I could do something to entitle me to a selection from your duplicates of the fossils of those old rocks. Perhaps Prof. Agassiz to whom I have heretofore on several occasions, sent specimens from here will authorize you to send some of the duplicates belonging to the museum:

Our friend Mr. Pfiel desires me to present his compliments and to say that he has no time even to read your works sent him and that he will present them to some public institution. He has abandoned geology &c. altogether,

Yours truly,

I.A. Lapham.

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Milwaukee Feb. [18th?], 1863.

Dr. J.W. Hoyt,

Dear Sir,-

In reply to your note asking my reasons for suggesting that the management and sale of the lands granted by Congress to aid in establishing an Agricultural College, should be in the hands of the trustees of the college rather than that they should be managed and sold by the state, I have to say that the state is an

1048
-1218-

1863.

Milwaukee Feb. 5th, 1863.

Professor Jules Marcou,
Cambridge,

Dear Sir,-

I have received the pamphlets you so kindly sent me relating to the Principal rocks and fossils. They will be of great use to us at some, I hope not very far distant, time when our rocks of the same age shall be scientifically examined. It was in this state that these most ancient forms of animal life are first discovered by the late lamented Owen.

I wish I could do something to entitle me to a selection from your duplicates of the fossils of those old rocks. Perhaps Prof. Agassiz to whom I have heretofore on several occasions, sent specimens from here will authorize you to send some of the duplicates belonging to the museum:

Our friend Mr. Pfiel desires me to present his compliments and to say that he has no time even to read your works sent him and that he will present them to some public institution. He has abandoned geology &c. altogether,

Yours truly,

I.A. Lapham.

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Milwaukee Feb. [18th?], 1863.

Dr. J.W. Hoyt,

Dear Sir,-

In reply to your note asking my reasons for suggesting that the management and sale of the lands granted by Congress to aid in establishing an Agricultural College, shoule be in the hands of the trustees of the college rather than that they should be managed and sold by the state, I have to say that the state is an