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to pleasant quarters.  I think our wishes will be at least partially realized, this season, and that the Acad. will be renovated and regenerated.  But there are very few workers, private feuds run high here, we are all poor, and very little interest is felt for Natural History [[strikethrough]] here [[/strikethrough]].
    
I have been up to Sacramento, and improved the opportunity of having a talk with some of the Senators about the Geol. Survey.  The appropriation of $22,000. per annum, for four years; has become a law and we all breathe freely again. Prof. Whitney is doing a splendid work here in collecting knowledge, though not so much in diffusing it, except in his Reports.
     
There is some talk of withdrawing the junior Revenue officers from our service.  We shall all be sorry if they are recalled, for they have done good work. 
    
I propose to take all the serpents and fishes of which the Acad. has a great many unnamed and send them in a keg to the S. I. for identification some new ones may be found among them possibly and they will at all events serve to elucidate the fauna for the coming Reports.
    
I shall send full lists of outfit in my next.  They are all I could wish except shot & egg drills of wh.