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[[date stamps]] Smithsonian Institution Feb 2 1866 [and] Feb 3 1866

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San Francisco. Jan 7./66

Dear Professor,
[[feb 3?]]
I am going down to Monterey on a collecting trip as soon as the present gale permits. I shall be gone some ten days. I pay my own expenses but don't grudge it if I can get any thing good there. I could not, from press of tel. business get my notes copied in time to send with the boxes last steamer. The catalogue [[^is]]] in the long box with the tusk &c. I wished to tell you, that out of the lot of small land shells from Kamchatka that I sent on, I took
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