(Copy)

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, D.C., December 3, 1885.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

Prest. National Academy of Sciences,

Sir:

A question having arisen on an appeal from the decision of the
Collector of Customs at New York, in regard to whether certain wool
imported into that port has been scoured or simply washed, I trans-
mit under another cover a sample of such wool, and will thank you
to submit it to the National Academy of Sciences, for examination
( microscopical or otherwise ) for the purpose of enabling this
Department to definitely determine such question.

I will thank you to inform me of the result of such examina-
tion at as early a day as practicable.

If possible please cause the sample to be returned.

F.