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Should you fall in with a senior officer, you will show him these 

 instructions, with which he will not interfere, except in a case of great 

 emergency, and he is thereby authorized to afford you any assistance 

 that you may properly require. 



I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, 



J. e. DOBBIN. 

 Lieutenant David D. Porter, 



Commanding U. S. Storesliip Supply^ Neiu York. 



No. 8 Panton Square, London, 



June 7, 1855. 



Sir: I have the honor to report my arrival here on Monday evening, 

 the 4th instant, after a passage of fifteen days to Southampton. The 

 next morning (the 5th) I deposited ray letter of credit for £4,000 with 

 Messrs. George Peabody & Co., and presented myself at the legation 

 of the United States. Mr. Buchanan received me very kindly, and, 

 upon my informing him of my mission, and my purpose in visiting 

 London in connexion with it_, gave me a letter to Professor Richard 

 Owen, F. R. S. of tlie Royal College of Surgeons, the Cuvier of Eng- 

 land. Upon calling at the Royal College yesterday, I was fortunate 

 enough to find the Professor in, and to receive from him, upon the 

 perusal of Mr. Buchanan's note, a cordial greeting, accompanied with 

 manifest interest in the purpose of my visit. My interview with him 

 was very interesting and gratifying, as he gave me the assurance that 

 he could see no difficulty whatever in acclimating and breeding the 

 camel in the United States. As a member of the Zoological Society, 

 he gave me a letter to its secretary, Mr. D. W. Mitchell, whom I 

 found at the society's rooms, No. 11 Hanover Square, and with 

 whom I had a long and animated conversation, closing with an ap- 

 pointment for 10 a. m. to-morrow (Friday, the 8th instant,) at the 

 Zoological Garden, to give me an opportunity of studying the feeding, 

 care, and hygeian of the camels and dromedaries in that institution, 

 where^ as I am informed by Professor Owen, five dromedaries have 

 been born and reared. The result of my examinations shall be com- 

 municated to you at an early day, 



I am, sir, with much respect, your obedient servant, 



HENRY C. WAYNE, 



Major U. S. Army. 



Hon. Jefferson Davis, 



Secretary of War, Washington city, D. C. 



P. S. My address is still, care George Peabody & Co., London. 



H. C. W. 



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