Letter of the Day: July 11 - veterinary museum?

Surgeon General’s Office
Washington City, July 11th 1868

Dear Doctor

Genl. Meigs informs the Surgeon General that “veterinary Surgeon Braley has been directed to turn over to the Surgeon General’s Office the veterinary museum some time since collected and arranged by him for this office and now in his possession, for enlargement and re-arrangement.”

The Surgeon General desires that you will designate a suitable place for the reception + exhibition of these specimens.

I am going to the Arsenal this evening and see what I can do with Genl Ramsay about obtaining the “fourteen skeletons” or “remains”.

Yours truly,
C.H. Crane

Dr. Geo. A. Otis
U.S. Army