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writes imploringly for them. I should also like a copy for my own study.
  Can you [[underlined]] possibly [/underlined]]get for me Carpenters Reports on the state of our knowledge &c of the West Coast Mollusca. It would be [[underline]]extremely [[/underline]] valuable to me  I mean the first one and the additional one lately published. Either, or if possible both. I can't be to emphatic with regard to them*. The other books I have already mentioned.

*I am willing to pay for them if necessary
Prof. S.F. Baird
Smithsonian Inst.