2 Gardiners Place
Dublin 8^th Dec^r
[Read]. 10^th
Ans^d 11^th

My dear Sir,

I have at length rec^d official notice of my promotion, seniority 11^th october, just two days after we were paid off.

As usual the promotions on this occasion have fallen short of that which was expected. I write by this days post to offer my services for my further search which may be instituted. Perhaps you could give me some information as to the best mode of seeking for employment? I had collected a considerable  number of Arctic birds besides a bear, fox, & hare, which I have given to the Royal Dublin Society for their museum, and their council has most handsomely proposed me as an honorary member, and I am to be balloted for at the next general meeting. I find their collection is a very meagre one and that scarcely anything is sent them of those collected by government expeditions &^c &^c, and to which I believe they are entitled next after the British Museum. 

There is no one more conversant with these matters than yourself, and if you would tell me how the secretary or curator should proceed for the purpose of obtaining some of supernumerary rarities lying in the stores of the British Museum or Admiralty you would greatly oblige me.

Strange to say they possess money as well as taste here, and intend enlarging the building by the addition of a wing. Such specimens of plants as I collected have been named by D^r Harvey of T. Coll. Dubⁿ, there is not however anything new; and some bottles of marine insects I have given to D^r Ball of the College Museum. 

Six weeks ago I was introduced to Capt Kellett at the Adm^ty, he was then on the Command of a Bherings Straits Expedition. I have not the slighest idea who will command the next Barrow’s Strait one, but hope they will not entrust it to any of the inexperienced but very numerous applicants. Capt. M^cMurdo I should think w^d be a very efficient leader.

I remain my dear Sir,
yours very sincerely, F. L. M:Clintock

To/ Captⁿ
Sir James Ross
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