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About this time Mr. Walker with his usual sagacity raised the insurance to $10,000.00.
    Stimpson was going right on to Washington, to take the Academys shares of the years collections, but I wrote to Prof. Baird protesting against it, and all the collections will be reserved intact, till the natural History work connected with the Expedition is finished.  I have written by every steamer mail to Prof. Baird and must make my acknowledgements for his prompt replies and hearty co'operation and sympathy from the first.  Horn returned from Arizona and has gone East with one hundred thousand bugs.  Coves has done the same and adds ten or twelve new species of birds to the US. faunae.  The collection made by us at Grey Town afforded one new sp. of bird, and Holland, Dr. Frantzius and Hicks a dozen or two more.  Marcy has gone to Montana as geologist to a wagon road survey through an unknown region.  He returns this fall.  Prof. Dana writes to me that the Brazilian party have broken up almost entirely the great [[underline]]"I am"[[/underline]] has treated his fellow workers very badly.