I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch
               No 27 of the 
26 February, informing me that the Lords
               
Commissioners of the Admiralty, had instructed the Chief of the
               
Meteorological
Meteorological Department to furnish me with a supply of forms
               of tables, to enable me to establish a system of Meteorological
               observations in 
British Columbia.
               
               2. I have duly received the same, and have to return my
               sincere thanks for your kind attention to my request.