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Beautiful day [[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Letter of thanks to the British Minister for letter for Dr Berands.
Offering to purchase from E G Suine 20 copies of the 1st volume of the S. I. Contributors provided he will wait until Jan [[superscript]] y [[/superscript]]
Letter Smith informing him that his Memoir on the [[liber?]] was burned This was not thought to be as valuable as was represented to Dr Tonney
Mr Bache.  To
Called on the Surgeon General who approved the proposition to employ the Smithsonian Inst as a medical or rather surgical museum
Gen. Delafield again with me in opinion that the canal should be filled up & a rail way put in its place.

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Mr James Mortimer the agent of Sautter [[firm?]] of Paris - who will repair the lens apparatus address 579 Broadway. Offers to send over workmen to set the prisms and furnish the new ones or to take the apparatus back to France for repair
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[[preprinted]] THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Letter of thanks to Luis Molina
Mr William Bennett of Athens call today that he was the owner of the property which entirely surrounds Lot No 42 belonging to Mrs Henry I have promised to give him the refusal
Prof Baird informs me that 32 Boxes of the specimens of Natural History and Ethnology are coming from the N W  the Arctic Anole and the Youkon river. The first set of duplicates to be given to the Chicago Academy & some to Montreal
Meeting of the architect with Gen Delafield and myself. Concluded to have a butress thrown from the front main wall of the main building to the two front towers - to put the force on the front towers and stop the stone cutters.

Attended this evening a meeting of the Board of Trade gave an account of the S. I. advocated the building of an exchange with rooms for a Library and public meetings
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