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^[[F. Field work]]

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in reply please refer to [[/preprinted]] CDW [[preprinted]] and date of this letter

SUBJECT: [[/preprinted]] Allotment. 

[[preprinted]] Address all communications to "Director, U. S. Geological Survey Washington, D. C." [[/preprinted]]

PMB

[[preprinted]] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Washington, D. C. [[/preprinted]] March 23, 1905.

Dr. F. W. True,
U. S. National Museum,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. True:
I have been considering your letter of March 7, in relation to the paleo-vertebrate work being carried on by the Survey.
As you are probably aware, we have three of Professor Marsh's volumes under way. I find that they will take so much money this year that we cannot make any appropriation from the limited fund ($10,000) available for paleontology.
I should like very much to aid in paying your field and traveling expenses, if it were practicable to do so. You might have a talk with Dr. R. S. Woodward, President of the Carnegie Institution, and see if he would favor making a grant of five or six hundred dollars for the work.
Sincerely yours,
[[signature]] Charles Walcott [[/signature]]
Director.

Transcription Notes:
Director is Charles Walcott, per http://www.usgs.gov/aboutusgs/who_we_are/directors.asp