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[[crossed out]] cooler rain night cloudy [[/crossed out]] Hazy very hot        clouds in west
[[preprinted]]MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1865.[[/preprinted]] little rain at night
Tuesday
[[stricken]] Mr Rhees leaves this morning to be about a work in Phil[[d superscript]] [[/stricken]]
The museum still continues to be crowded with soldiers.
Professor Baird occupied in sorting birds eggs - & in marking up the invoice of sending for 1865
[[circled]] The records of today put by mistake on the space for Sunday[[/circled]]
Rec[[d superscript]] 650 copies of Report for 1863
Read [[stricken]]report[[/stricken]] proof of the report of the proceedings of the Society of [[?]] for the Report of 1864.
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cooler little rain in night 
[[preprinted]]TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1865.[[/preprinted]] overcast cool cloudy
cloudy overcast 
Mr. Rhees starts this morning for Phil[[d superscript]] 
wrote to [[?]] about the history of the Inst in the encyclopedia of Amer. Literature -
Sent recommendation for Guyots maps & request to the sect. of the Treas. for order that packages from abroad may be let into the Boston Custom house as into the N. Y. free of duty.
  Gave to the public printer the Report of Dr. Wethenall on the ventillation(sic) of the Capitol will print it within this month the plates to be steneotyped at expense of Inst[[on/superscript]].