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the work as far as might be, the right to work up that part of the collections, including the description and determination of species which might be undescribed and the right to a set of the specimins after the Smithsonian and Chicago cabinets had been supplied. There was, of course no written or other agreement other than this understanding.
Now I am willing to work early and late for the advancement of Natural History, and to give up the undeniable right, which this bodily labor entails; with regard to the shells; in favor of Mr. Carpenter or any other competent naturalist [[underline]] provided [[/underline]] it is clearly shown to me, that it is for the benefit of Science, in any reasonable way.
   But with regard to it, beyond the facts in my note book and the examination of the specimens collected in person by me, ^both of which you will shortly possess^ there is not likely to be any information which might be embodied in a rehash of any ones working up of my results; in fact the credit which I feel to be justly my due on account of hardship and exposure incurred in the field, can only be received by one person, the first describer of the collections. I do not think that in saying this much I have been selfish or egotistical.
  If practicable I would be willing to devote five or ten years of hard work to the West Coast Mollusca, north of Puget Sound; to produce work not like the loose descriptions of Mr. Carpenter, of
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