
          And Dec 24th

Smithsonian Inst.
Dec 6th 1860

My Dear Dr

I return you the letter
of instruction with the insertion
of the name of the Academy of St.
Petersburgh before that of the
Berlin Academy. When I
prepared this letter I had mislaid
the notes furnished
me by Dr. Gray and gave
the names from memory.

We have fallen upon
very dark times - South Carolina
will without doubt go out
of the Union. What other states
will join her is not known.

The Government for the present
has stopped payment. We called
        