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San Francisco, May 8, 1866.

Dear Professor,

I have little to tell you this time in the way of news.  The Saginaw is not ordered to report to Co. Bulkley till the 15th of June, and therefore I don't think that there will be much chance of our getting away before.

Dr. Horn is here and will return to the East in a short time.  Hi has been in Arizona and been very successful in collecting landshells and [[strikethrough]] lepedopter [[/strikethrough]] coleoptera.  King has also returned from Arizona and will not return there.  Matters in the Territory are said to be terribly mismanaged and account comes to us today of the massacre of a whole garrison of soldiers there.

We have much improved the