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San Francisco, Feb 24, 1866
Dear Prof.

Yours of Jan. 26 is just rec'd and very welcome. In taking it up in order, I must remark that I fear the Cala. acad. is pretty thoroughly oxydized.
  Thanks for looking after the Plants of Bridges. I find that they are undoubtedly all Chilean and Bolivian, though when I unpacked them, recognising Californian species I supposed they might have become mixed; but I now find that they are also indigenous to that country. I will write to the Entom. Soc about Mrs. B's beetles.
  When I have delivered boxes to Mr. Hubbard, they have always been numbered, not in the order of sending but of collecting and packing. In the last lot, three boxes and two kegs, in a long box containing a fossil tusk & seals bones &c, I placed the Catalogue of collections and a memorandum of the numbers. My own mem has been mislaid but the last lot comprised Hubbards fish my own alcoholics in two kegs, tusk &c in one box, Bridges plants in another box, some crania in another. Col. B. insisted on wearing the horns which were sawed off from the deer skull, on the Wrights bowsprit] during the voyage so that of course when the storm came they were lost
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