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Floating clouds [[preprinted]]SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1865.[[/preprinted]] Rain at night Mr Dickerson who is visiting me states that the government are now building he thinks six large vessels of the of the Wampanog class about [[stricken]]35,000 [[/stricken]] 35 hundred tuns. Which he asserts will be failures because the engines cannot be kept running at Sea This is his prediction [[two sketches]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Clear floating clouds [[preprinted]]MONDAY, MAY 29, 1865. [[/preprinted]] clear Allowed Prof Baird to hire a man for one month to assist in sending off the packages._________________________ Directed the astronomical instruments to be put into a can in the packing room. General Alvord author of paper on the Tangencies of circles and spheres called will remain some time in the city - wants an introduction to Newcomb who examined his paper. Wrote to Isaac Ian asking another copy of the appendix which he prepared to add to the 2nd volume of the Bibliography of conchology Interview with Admiral Davis who informed me that Pierce would do as he directed and that he would advise his acceptance provisionally of the change of the coast survey. Large number of packages arriving for exchange [[end page]]