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5804/2        2
[[circular stamp]]
Smithsonian Institution
APR 15 1865
[[/circular stamp]]

meteorological observation for the S.I. and is perhaps a regular correspondent John Rogers his brother (our Purser on the Golden Rule & a P.B.) tells me his brother Frank wants to go into Nat. Hist. - I propose to put him into Nat History. The Purser advised me to supply him
with materials anyway. - I propose that you should send a [[underline]] third [[/underline]] alcohol tank [[strike]] have [[/strike]] set of egg drills, etc.
bottles etc etc - directed to Frank Rogers San Juan del Sur Nicaragua - care Carrington in N.Y. -

I shall see Rogers and if he is not the man to [[underlined]] do up [[/underlined]] the zoölogy at San Juan Del Sur and Lake Nicaragua Ill find some one that will and can arrange with Rogers to hand over the
material to him - But from what they all tell me here I believe Rogers will "go in" heavily on zoölogy - He
is a very well educated man, somewhat exccentric as near as I can learn - Ill write more about him from Cala -
meantime Mr Ransom his associate & others have agreed to  help collect. ---

I think if followed up promptly we have a good thing here [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]] them

Transcription Notes:
jeni92127 final review 27 Sept 2017 - "put" is underlined - "help has a line through the tops of the letters so this may have been meant to be struck out - the last word doesn't appear to be start with a a "t" but it is hard to determine what else would work there. ------- edited to remove formatting & resolved some [[?]]. added umlauts - nwmath