Viewing page 1 of 152

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[underline]]Prof Baird[[/underline]]

write Stym about the plan of future operations and tell him that I feared to object strongly to any European exhange of [[underline]]vertebrates[[/underline]] lest he should think I wished [[merely?]] to do it myself.

[[line across page]]

If convenient tell Walker or Thompson fully the whole plan of foreign operations and explain clearly its advantage - It [[?]] can come in as a complement to my sagacity!

[[line across page]]

[[strikethrough]]Send D. Brooks Supt[[/strikethrough]] Send Express [[paid?]] to 
 D. Brooks
Supt. Pa Division
Western Union Teleg
Gen Teleg office
Philiadelphia.

6 - 12 [[underline]]skins[[/underline]]of game birds (and eggs) Tell him Cassin can show him where to get em mounted.

Send him some [[?]][[?]] and tell him to divide with Tom Scott.