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condition of the Cal. Acad. Moved to new and clean, though small, rooms and shall leave the institution in a better state than ever before.  Have got through with the medical stores and am busy working on Californian shells - particularly landshells of which Dr. Cooper has sent me several new species to describe - Also getting my Monterey notes ready for Carpenter.  I have rec'd the Report which will be very useful to me.  He ought to have copies of this report where they can be obtained by students.  I would willingly pay ten dollars rather than be without it and he certainly owes to the collectors who have sent him everything, and thereby contributed to his renown - the opportunity of procuring copies of his work after it has been completed; by reasonable payment therefor.   The Cal. Academy has just paid a bill of $118.00 for printing his oldfashioned Latin descriptions, readable to very few of the collectors on this coast.  The same in English would have cost $46.00. /over