
          April 17' 1858


 My Dear Dr


 I sent you this morning
 a short reply to your letter dated
 12th but only arrived this morning.
 I could find no letter of introduction 
 as no army surgeon
 was stationed at Ft. Frye. I 
 can however give him a letter or
 two to individuals about San 
 Antonio and perhaps other places 
 I know when and where he settles.
 Deerman is somewhere near San
 Antonio, settled on a farm.


 Lt. Williamson will go
 out to North California in a 
 few weeks to make a railroad
 survey. He has no alowance for
 naturalist, but can have a citizen surgeon.
 He wants a first rate survey
 as his party will include over
 one hundred men and would be
 glad to have in him a naturalist.
 He has offered the place to Dr
 J.S. Newberry of Cleveland, an excellent
        