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[[preprinted]] 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON D.C.
[[/preprinted]]

June 12. 1906
Dear Prof. Eastman:
Your letter of June 2 [[superscript]] [[underlined]] d [[/underlined]] [[/superscript]], , relative to [[underlined]] Anoplouassa [[/underlined]], and the photographs arrived in due course. I beg to thank you for your kind permission to cast the type of [[underlined]] Anoplouassa [[/underlined]]. The mold has been made already & I have no doubt the cast will be successful.
I am considerably puzzled as to what to say regarding an article. I have only 8 or 10 pages written and should not want to finish the article without having seen Abel's paper. Furthermore, I am planning to do some field-work right away and after that must take a vacation, so that it would probably be September before I should be ready to finish up [[underlined]] Anoplouassa [[/underlined]] .
It seems to me therefore that it might be best if you would go ahead with whatever you intend to publish, & if there is anything left for me to say, [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] I could [[/insertion]] say it next Fall. Of course, I should be very glad to to put it in the [[underlined]] Bull. Comp. Zool. [[/underlined]], if that seems best.
I was [[strikethrough]] extremely interested [[/strikethrough]] in