
          given, such as endorsement 
 of his fitness for the work,
 but more especially of the 
 value of the work he has 
 done & is doing. He is 
 anxious to have an appropriation 
 to decently wind up the 
 work and publish the 
 results. 


 Professor Dana & several 
 of the professors here have 
 strongly endorsed him, to 
 the governor, and if you can 
 conscienciously [conscientiously] aid in the 
 matter (as I think you 
 can) I think it would be 
 in the interest of science 
 for you to do it, in fact 
 I dont know how we are to 
        