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Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Madison, Mar. 22, 1875. Mr. John Muir, Oakland: Dear Sir, I have re
d nad? with great interest, and laid before the Academy of Sciences, your valuable studies in the formation of Mountains in
the Sierra Nevada, California , for which please accept official and personal thanks. By way of reip illegible ity, I forward
for your acceptance a copy of Vol. II, illegible Wis. Acad. You are to be congratulated on the success of your scientific
labors and on the honorable? recognition