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[470] have B. eburneus. All the above species attain a somewhat larger average size on the shores of the United States than on those of Britain, but the specimens from the glacial beds of Uddevalla, Scotland, and Canada, are larger even than those of the United States.

Once again allow me to thank you with cordiality for the pleasure you have given me.

Believe me, with the highest respect, your truly obliged,


The following letter from Hugh Miller concerning Agassiz's intention of introducing ‘The Footprints of the Creator’ to the American public by a slight memoir of Miller is of interest here. It is to be regretted that with this exception no letters have been found from him among Agassiz's papers, though he must have been in frequent correspondence with him, and they had, beside their scientific sympathy, a very cordial personal relation.

Edinburgh, 2 Stuart street, May 25, 1850.
dear Sir,—I was out of town when your kind letter reached here, and found such an accumulation of employment on my return that it is only now I find myself able to devote


Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.

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