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Brown is a queer customer - Does nothing tho of limited means - He might be induced to collect largely I should think - Dally is a  conductor and evinces some little interest in the matter.

Ive been putting them up to form a naturalists club in connection with their "Mechanics Institute" (an embryonic library here).

E.J. Coleman (who ruined himself ^[[in England]] by publishing a book of plates on Glaciers of Alps) is Librarian of the "Mech Inst" - It might be well to lend 'em some books to the library of they apply.

Fred[[superscript]]k[[/superscript]] Whymper a young artist of this place was to have gone on the Exped with us but Bulkley yesterday