
          Smithsonian Inst
April 30th 1859

My Dear Dr

We have directed a
lot of meteorological [blanks?]
and instructions to be sent
to your care for Mr Benson
but we are unable to furnish
instruments for places out of
the field of our research.

We have made a movement
to procure you a specimen
of the wax mentioned
in your previous letter and
hope it may be successful.

I think in the course of
another year we may be
able to do something in
the way of the botanical
        