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Smithsonian Institution.
Oct/11/1895
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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. -
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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
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I think you would do well to write to them