Murchison to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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.