
          it up (a couple of weeks I expect).


 Blake has not turned up
 here this autumn; his connexion [connection]
 with the War department
 has ceased, & I am afraid
 he has left such an unfavorable
 impression of geologists in general at
 Headquarters that no successor
 is likely to be appreciated.


 There is nothing new here
 as there is no congress -  there is 
 absolutely nothing stirring.


 I am my D Dr
 Yours faithfully
 Thomas Antisell


 Prof J. Torrey M.D.
        