
          department. I then closed the report in disgust.
 I sent in a bill of $100 for sundry expenses & pay
 to a young man for cleaning & sorting & washing
 specimens, & objection is made to the latter because
 the receipt for the same is in the body of a letter
 & not separately. I thought our own office was good
 at technical objections but the Treasury beats us.
 I could not get a sight of the proof sheets & hence
 the first sheets of the Secretarys report was
 [?] printed: the final ones struck
 of which you will receive one is a little better
 but still full of errors. [re?] my preliminary
 letter was suppressed & you will find my
 name at the close so suppressed, that it
 is difficult to know which is mine &
 which is Clarks. However after all
 drawbacks on looking through the
 report if you find any thing in it
 worth your notice whereby you could in
 dorse [endorse] a continuance of the examination
 I would be glad to get it at your leisure
 as I may again apply to the department
 to be allowed to go on with the Experiments
 in the way I indicate at the close of
 the report. The departments here are
 so busy with other pressing matters
        