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getting off at present - a week or ten days, as was said last year, is the time I set.

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  JUL 10 1866
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I have got two barometers, a compass, a mercurial and spirit thermometer and hope to measure some of the Kamchatka volcanoes during the coming season.

Very truly yours 
Wm H Dall
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Prof S. F. Baird,
Sm Ins