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Personal 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
June 24, 1897 
Prof. W. H. Holmes, 
5726 Washington Avenue, 
Chicago, 111. 
My dear Holmes : - 
I think you are way off on your surmises in relation to 
the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. There are quite a number 
of men who feel very sore, and little articles of that kind have 
appeared from time to time during the past three years. 
As the Museum will be very much torn up during the summer 
in connection with the construction of tlie galleries in the courts 
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and halls, I have arranged for a temporary office for you in the y 
Smithsonian building. 
Everything is going along very quietly here. Your appoirt- 
ment was approved by the Secretary, and I presume ere this you 
have received official notice from him. Will you not let me knovr 
when we can expect you here? If you choose to give notice June 
50th so as to report here October 1st, it will answer all pur- 
I shall probably leave here about the first of August, 
and return in October. 
poses 
ruly your 
