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[[circular stamp]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION APR 1 1866 [[/circular stamp]]

[[circular stamp]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION APR 5 1866 [[/circular stamp]]

San Francisco Mar 8. 66

Dear Prof. Baird,

Your two notes of Feb. 3 and 7 came to hand, as well as the package of books & the copy of Cpr. sent by mail. The books are exceedingly welcome, and I hope we shall be able to get a copy of the other supplementary Rep. before leaving for the Season.

There is no particular news to tell you. Things progress as well as we can expect I suppose. I have got six Geological hammers six scoop or beating net frames, two collecting boxes a dredge on an improved plan of my own, and about five hundred fish bags making; so that we may consider somuch secured -

The slight study of the Monterey collections, which I am able to make, not with standing the paucity of books, developes interesting and new (to me) things at every turn. Why don't Carpenter come out here if even for a little while. I have got a new and beautiful genus of Pteropods at Monterey which seems to be the sole compeer of the Nautilus in bilateral symmetry. It is membranaceous however. I should like when we return, to make the Pteropods and pelagic