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[[begin left page]] [[blank page]] [[end left page]] [[begin right page]] [[handwritten]] 6225 [[?]] [[/handwritten]] [[stamped text]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION JUN 25 1965 [[/stamped text]] [[handwritten]] San Francisco May 23. '65. Dear Sir, Will you be kind enough to send to Mr. R.E.C. Stearns of this city, a copy of the Smithsonian Checklist of Shells, Carpenters Lectures on the Mollusca, and Binneys Bibliography of N. Am. Conchology. Mr. Stearns is a careful and eager worker on the Californian coast and other shells, and I am sure the books in question would be well used The boys are gone, and K. & I are well and hope to be off soon. Yours very Truly, Wm H. Dall Over [[/handwritten]] [[end right page]]