
          the Smithsonian hardly suffices
 to keep young Easter's soul & body
 together. Indeed he had during summer
 a liver attack perhaps from
 living too much in the lower part
 of the city which no doubt he never
 would have done if he could have
 afforded better. Dr. Henry ought
 to get up a museum of minerals
 rocks & fossils which workers here
 might use for comparison with
 their specimens. There are no facilities
 in the institution except for stuffing
 birds. You can make liquid analyses
 with a Saxton balance not very trustworthy
 but no dry assays can as 
 yet be made. Prof. H. is so afraid
 that a museum will grow up about 
 him that he closes his ears to any
 application involving expenses

        