Rec'd- Sept. 28th 

 Ans. Oct. 1 



Washington Sept. 22, 



Most Esteemed Sir: 



Just now I received your kind lines and the important en- 

 closure which according to your wish I add to my facsimile« 



I an fully oceupied already in a of the Wieder- 



scher hause. Our effor/ts are in urgent denand and we intend to 

 scather a suramarizing oversight of our m <pe& surveying measure- 

 ments at the e^d of next month. Then the minister of war may give 

 us sone time to Ret the collected results into some order. The 

 coli ~tions arrived in erood shape according to Adams & Co, Ex- 

 press; also the lar^re Fir-cone, which indeed is rauch larorer than 

 the one you already own.- Sonebody has spread the enjoyable ru - 

 mor, that you telegraphed to Philadelphia, that you will leave 

 St. Louis this week to travel to New Yor&. Will you carry this 

 out ? All is inviting for this, and we would be specially glad 

 as therewith all kinds of difficulties would be eliminated, such 

 as the Classification of the collections and the contact with 

 rnen of science interested in the collections, who would e^rich 

 the ^-eDort through their renarks. 



Besides the af orementioned general overview map ah out the 



of the various department which returned frora the field, 



tto General sumnary or overview of all maps seems to be in the 

 works, exceDt r>erhaps a resume by the minister of war, pr epared 

 by himself , siiiply then his own report to Congress. It seems that 

 at present everything existing is und er lock and key of sone 

 officers who are away and have taken the keys with them or are 

 hiding them carefully, so that nobody can find them. The same 

 applies to operating money, we stand here as on coals with empty 



