I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the
24th March accompanying an extract of a despatch
from the Governor of
British Columbia, and a box containing
specimens of Gold from that Colony.
I request you to offer my best thanks to
Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton for so valuable an addition to our Museum; and also
beg you to thank him for the transmission of the Governor's remarks
upon the Climate of the Colony, which
will be laid before the Royal Geographical Society.