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Clear    [[script]] MONDAY [[/script]] [[strikeout]] WEDNESDAY [[/strikeout]], MARCH 27, 1865 [[preprinted]]
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Turned over two leaves. This ought to be March 27th

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Mr. DeBeust[[Burst?]] has returned without making an attempt to get another place.
Letter to the N History Society of Brazille 
Thanks for Birds and for work on [[? illegible strike out]] ornithology also for insects Letter sent for safe keeping to the Entomological Society of Phil [["a" superscript]]
Letter to the Spanish Ambassador in favour of Mr. Wright's exploration of Cuba
Had to purchase 130 dolls worth of trays for minerals - Trays spoiled by the water.
Spoked to Mr Baird about the alcoholic specimens - With the aid of Mr Gill in 3 months can distribute 10,000 - 
Mr Mayer from Baltimore visited He has been in Paris studying methods exhibiting phenomena
Spent evening in experimenting on the radiant heat next to the lights in the ceiling of the room of the House of Representatives 
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Rainy      Hard Rain in the night
[[stricken]]Hazy[[/stricken]]  [[preprinted]]THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1865.[[/preprinted]]  Wind [[stricken]]S.E.[[/stricken]]
Sent communication to the Institution in New York for the promotion of Science and  art on Tuesday
Last night spent the evening in reading in reference to the next report - 
Wrote to Mr. Spofford  Librarian of Congress to ask how I could get possession of Dr. Tonney's[[?]] Manuscript Report in the Botany of a part of the Exploring Expe?
Large arrival of Books from the the [[sic]] French Secretary of the Navy of Scientific Explorations 
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