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San Francisco by this mail. I am in hopes to receive it, for I am not aware 

 that any observations have ever been made, at a position similar to that of our 

 islands, a long distance from a coast line. 



I have also received the reports of the Smithsonian Institution for the years 

 1854-60, check lists of American shells, and catalogue of publications of socie- 

 ties, for which I beg to return my sincere thanks. 



I forward you, per this mail, a catalogue of the works in my library relating 

 to the Sandwich Islands, which I believe to be near, if not quite, complete. 

 You will notice in it three periodicals, formerly published at our islands, not in 

 your catalogue. They contain a few scientific articles. Please look over the 

 catalogue, and any works published here which you may wish to obtain, please 

 inform me, and if possible, they will be sent you. 



Your wishes in regard to a series of shells described by me shall be attended 

 to. I also shall furnish you, as soon as I can obtain it, a specimen of the bat 

 living on our islands, (the only indigenous mammal here,) for the reason that 

 I received a letter by last mail from Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, acknowl- 

 edging the receipt of one from me, which he decides, after a hasty examination, 

 to be identical with a species common to the east and northerly part of America, 

 usually called the "New York Bat." He was to exhibit it at the meeting of 

 the Zoological Society the evening of the day he wrote me. If he is correct, it 

 will be a singular exception to the laws of animal distribution. 



I am about to commence the publication of a serial work in England, on the 

 Natural History of the Pacific Islands, which will be furnished you from there. 



My illustrated catalogue of the shells of the Sandwich Islands and their 

 animals must be deferred for a time, as my collector on the islands south of the 

 equator, who has been occupied near three years in searching them, informs me 

 that he has been very successful, having obtained GOO new land and marine 

 species, and discovered facts of great value to me in regard to distribution of 

 species, &c. 



I notice in your report of 1860 an announcement of the intended publication 

 of several pamphlets on shells, three by Mr. Carpenter. The one on west coast 

 species and one on United States expedition shells I particularly wish to see, as 

 the latter I shall be able to correct. All pamphlets, however, on shells will be 

 of use to me. 



I beg strongly that duplicates of shells from the Indo-Pacific province may 

 be sent me by the Institution; full valu* will be returned. Are there none left 

 of Wilkes's expedition, or of ftodgcrs's Japan expedition ? 



All packages in fotture, please address to me and forward to Wells, Fargo & 

 Co., New York. 



Do not fail to make use of me in any way you may consider of value to the 

 Institution. 



Yours, most truly, 



W. H. PEASE. 



Professor Joseph Henry. 



The books and specimens referred to in this letter have been received at the 

 Institution. The species of bat so remarkable, as being the only native mammal 

 found on the Sandwich Islands, has since been identified by Dr. Gray, of the 

 British Museum, as the Lasiurus Grayi, belonging to the coast of Chile. 



Headquarters, General Grant's Army, 



Jackson, Tennessee, November 5, 1862. 

 Dear Sir : A large and perhaps valuable, but incomplete, herbarium has 

 fallen into my hands, captured from the confederates, or, at least, belonging to 



