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size. The opercle is buccinoid. It is positively not Truncaria or [[Nassa?]]. I write to Elliot by the first Northern mail.
  I think a line from you would please Mrs. Bridges particularly if appreciative of her husband. She is a niece of the late Hugh [[Cuming?]] of London.
  Stearns is a regular trump. We would make Whitney, Pres't. & Bolander Corres. Sec'y of the Ac. and want me for librarian while here.
  Get some decent rooms and start a heavy subscription &c. 
  Please write often.

Very respectfully yours,
   Wm H. Dall

Prof. S.F. Baird
S.I. Wash. DC