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Chief Bm&BWkiM August Bc&tli • 
" n Joseph Clomp $ 
B. It. Mag 
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CM of IJaoMnitt a. D, Bovine* 
OolGism too sho'ol X fee pres ent e& with Bev&ml ooipee for 
Ms gfe&re in tg^dag the ms®eril|* , and If -jcn could soncl ao 
sin copies over and aoevi* W tweSty^five 1 should life© to 
give tli®. to ILdLlere, AsraMi , Qmk$ BeBoag, Be Fries, and 
Balxae . 
Other vtoa the afeove X can suggest ao other nemos 
that you will not have on your or tlis University lists* 
X have taken the life city of asking for your opinion 
.• i eioe current meter* I have ree enfcly received the 
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olXo’Mng regaest from the Bureau 
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?f j -■ directed to ©ea$& to this of fie# a statement 
lie success aft mMiat upon the use of the Brice outwent 
yet ©r now on the A1 feat rose# Has it any serious defeats that 
Mili ) agsdiMR v its m i or so® you consider it 
better adapt od to bay or river moife in rcCLof?ivcly shallow 
water than the Steen or other fossss in use? 
(Sgft) fio'iis lindcliffe 
Acting Awsistart in Qharge* 
cientiflc Xwpljy.* 1 
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Of ©(rave© yon cannot compare its efficiency ?4th 
thatfe of the XSaaan or other meters, feut neither can I, as 1 
have Bam only tli@ Mice jaefer in action. . ould you also fee 
so JiiS'tf ?s to render me hr. Eoffeid* s eoiniox! on the matter as 
far 
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•lie to give it. If not causing yen. too 
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S*«# aa incoanremenoe please answer this last paragraph upon 
the receipt of this letter, as I tdsli to writ© to the Bureau 
ere w© sail agda on the morning of the twonty-si^th. 
