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take him with me - I think he will bring him along. - If so I shall leave him at some Russian post up the Youkon wherever I establish a depot - He will be a most excellent man to be left in charge of goods & stores - In spring he can then have a good whack at Zoölogy & Geology etc.

I suspect he begins to understand ere this that he had better have been guided by me and not deserted me as he did -

Thus I will have Dall, Bischoff & perhaps Bannister in full swing this fall and next winter - For my own part I will let results speak for themselves - of course I cant take much of an equipment but [[?]] [[?]]to the birds along the track I've passed ^[[this winter when]] next spring arrives.
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Besides paying for the things (arsenic alum & saltpeter etc) ordered thru Hubbard - amt some $225 in specie) Col Bulkley bought one barrel of alcohol. ^[[and some paper for [[?plants]] - I got a few additional things but he [[strikethrough]] woul [[/strikethrough]] objected to my purchasing much on the ground of want of transportation- I have still about $150 left of the Academys funds - or rather I owe that amt - My personal expenses in San Francisco were very large - whether wise or foolish time will

Transcription Notes:
- "[[?]]" might be "wo!"- could be a misspell of "Woe!" This would make sense because he is talking about less equipment but the birds still better look out [because he will still have enough equipment to skin them]. - Transcriber uses "^[[" for insertion. The whole note is handwritten.