M Correa is here just arrived & much recovered from his late indisposition,

 

M Cooper highly appreciates the kind interest you have taken in his favor, but from the exertions made for him by his friends he concieves himself bound to await the start of the trial here

Dr Dorsey is chosen to the Anatomical Chair—The Nominations to the Vacancy created of the Materia Medica are to be made the first Tuesday in June The Election to be by special meeting a few days after—There is full expectation that D Coxe will fill that Chair

On first Tuesday in June the Nominations will take place for the Chemical Chair & the Election a few days after. This is understood to be the tontine—The Moment the decision is made, if Mr C & his friends are disappointed—he Devotes himself to your Institution & that Devotion will I concieve carry great weight his knowledge is so various & so great on the points he may be wanted to teach, he inspires his pupils with so warm an attachment to the science they pursue, & put them in the way so completely of pursuing it by themselves—That he will be eminently Useful in founding of a New Establishment—

He regrets that he was not able to be with You on 11 May but he had been obliged to give a Course of Mineralogy (twice a Day) & could not with honor desert it—he has been indisposed for two or three weeks but is now better