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Our objections may be formulated as follows:—

I. As stated above, many correspondents are satisfied with nothing short of a letter direct from me or my representatives; and when they find that their letters have been turned over to a separate Division for answer naturally conclude that I am desirous of shirking the bother of answering. Many of them will, I am certain, resent the imagined slight by transferring their correspondence and the co-öperation connected therewith to some other museum — the American Museum of Natural History for instance — whose ornithological representative is equally willing to write a painstaking reply, has the same incentive for doing so, and is not prevented from doing so by any official regulation.

Many persons attach special importance to their correspondence of this character, and