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^[[1/6539 [[strikethrough]] [[underlined]]31890B[[/underlined [[/strikethrough]] ]] [[circular stamp]] Smithsonian Institution. Oct/11/1895 [[/circular stamp Victoria July 28th Dear Prof Baird - We leave tomorrow night - weve just heard that the Clara Bell (our second vessel from New York) is safe in Sitka. - [[line]] G.M. Sproat Esq of this place is at work on ethnology and promises to aid the S.I. - He may get skulls of Indians. Mr Frederick Dally & Mr G.H. Wilson Brown residents ^[[of Victoria]] Promise (with some others here) to collect for S.I. here [[line]] I think you would do well to write to them