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[[preprinted]] Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. HARVARD UNIVERSITY F.W. PUTNAM, Peabody Professor of Amer. Arch. and Ethn., Harv. Univ., Curator of the Museum. Cambridge, Mass., ^[[June 27]] 189^[[5]].[[/preprinted]] My dear F. The wool found in the field has been identified by Prof. Allen, & you were right in your surmise. It is Bison Americanus. You have by this time received the sample I sent you. I enclose today a bit of the cloth. I cut it off before Mr Dorsey took it to poison the bird. Every thing has to be poisoned so that it will not be lost. I think you had better put it in a box or something where it will be safe. Is it not very fine &