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66 Hennepin [circled] Ill 10th Jany - 1859

Mr Robt. Kennicott

Dear Young Friend

Your letter or circulars from Washington
came to hand by the evening mail of
Saturday and without farther time or
consultation I drew up a memoreal
to our legislature on the subject of a
[page torn] [z]oological survey of the the state
[page torn] [I]t will be presented immediately to all
our best known and most active members
of the Buel Institute by whom it will with-
-out doubt be sustained and then sent
forward to our representative that it may
be presented to the house at an early day

On the blank portion of your circular
respecting a zoological survey I wrote to
Mr James McCall our representative
giving it my most hearty approbation and
urging ing[strikethrough] him to give it his earliest
attention and strongest support

I did not forget to recommend the
name of Robt. Kennicott as a