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send him an alcohol tank (and that old 10 ft seine) with bottles for insects & crustacea parchment labels etc etc - write to him by all means and get Ulke to write to him. Dr Deizmann is intensely German and he and Ulke will get on like fire - If ever any naturalist comes this way let him come straight to the old Doctor. By the way he is a friend of Franziens of San José.

I shall push the old Doctor strong on reptiles mammals, crustacea & fish. - Pray send him a vol 8 mammal book (in fact if possible I think it would [[underlined]] pay well [[/underlined]] to send both vol's 8 & 9 of P.R.R.R. to Holland Deizmann & Rogers of whom more anon. If you like let Soloman buy em and charge the amt to my Exped fund. (I think Carrington would frank the package to Deizmann and both Rogers & Holland are employees of the C.A.T. Co.
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Mr Frank Rogers one of the agents of the C.A.T. Co (nephew of Mr Morris the President of the line) is stationed at San Juan del Sur on the Pacific end of NW transit. He has been making

Transcription Notes:
jeni92127 review 28 Sept 2018 - "Soloman" looks like "Solomen" in original - unclear if it is "Franziens" or "Franziers" since author tried to write over the first attempt FYI's - "Ulke" is Henry Ulke, a fellow Megatherium Club member - C.A.T. Co. is Central American Transport Company