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B. M. Horton, I«q. ,

6952 Harvard Avenua,
Chicago , 111.

Dew Sir: --

Tou aak vl^ »« attanrpt 1b made in tiie

National Geograitoic Mafiazine to give the world ^a trw
facte in regard to the diacoyery of the North Pole. If
I am not greatly mietaken, the triie facte ireic« P'Ali«^Md
by the m^ftzine eeveral yeara ago. Jou^jike the ^ ,^
afltoniahii« etataaaHt that Peary* a claim to the Jicnor of
diacovaring the Pole is unsupported by the scientific
world. It is almost unbelievable that aiqrfair minded,
person could make such a preposterous statement*

Shortly mfter Peary* s return it happened that
wa^ a mamber of a apecial caondttea appointed to examine
Peary* s original records. These records showed beyond
the question of a doubt that Peary had act\mlly reached
the Worth Pole*

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Dear Sir:

Professor Spillman of the Department of

Agriculture has shown me a photograph furnished by you

of a Texas staer having a spread of horns of 9 feet Hi inches*

i aia very anxious to obtain a copy of this photograpli and

if you are willi% to allow me to have one, shall be glad

to pi^ ax^ eo^ense connected therewith*

very truly yours.

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]e«r LixmiB:

Tour lette^r of November 11, atatipg that
you had app jlntad lue an a member of a caoodttee to
repraaeat the Sequoya League at the memorial aenrice
for the late W J Ife^eOt came duly^ and last ni^ht I attended
the meetii)g« lulogistSc addresseB were delivered by
BoaSt Hodge, Colonel Riser, Henry Grannett, Cotille«
Finchot, Holmes (h^jid^Qf the Bureau of Uinaa — - not the
Anthropological Holmes), and one or two others^

It was mi^ty good news to leam that your
eyesi^t has come back«

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Bear Mr^ GrcBvenor:

Many thanks for the book of
the Peruvian Expedition iust received
fro^n you with the conifll'iienta of the
National Geographic Society. Its
beautiful pictures of wonderful ruins
cannot fail to excite ones admiration
for the extraordinary achievements of
the Inqa people. .

fair trjlv vourn

Mr. (Jilberb K. QrcBvmor^

National GreCe'raphic Societv,
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Ur. Q. Noiman Wilkinson,

Freehold, New Jersey.

Dear Sir:

Tour article in tihe last is sua of Bird Lore
excites my interest, but you are silent on one important
point, namely, as to whether or not the Skunk emitted
bis scent. I shall be greatly obliged if you will
kindly enlist en me on this matter, and should like to
know also about what date the event occurred.

You are surely to be congratulated on your
food fortune in actually witnessing the killing of a
Ikiank by a areat Homed Owl.

Wery trtily yours.

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Tour l«ttM- of th« 8th in^MA and •ccoop-nylng

batdi of n.9^^ are at b«i4.f or lAlA I «n rary mueh
oblfeod. J liko to h»Te at loaat two copia. of all
curr«t pivor. in ordor to fllo..«* «»dor Bxiihore for
Mndiiig. tho other uador .ubjact.; wd In the cmo of
reriora it h» been mj practice for yeare to paste a

coipy in the book rcTiewed.

With kindest regards to Krs. Allen and yourself,

▼ery truly yours.

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Dear Pinohot:

In lortiqg somo old papers
lately I ran aoroaa a tm pophlets and
elippinga about Adirondaefc Forestry
mattera. Feroeivixf; that they were
publidied at a tiae when you were
probably aore interested in tops and
fish hooks than in f oreatry affairs,
it occurs to me that they are not likely
to be contained in your files. If of
any interest, keep; if not, cfanck in
the waste basket*

Tory truly yours.

Hen. Si f ford Pinchot,

1615 Rhode Island Avenue,

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Boar Mr. Henshav:

Testerdny irtien at the MoBeam I>spoko to
HweU aDout the pubUcatim of hie Relthrodotrtfley-
nona, aid wae told to ny -neaaoent that it »aa to 1
nomberediix. I oould herdly beljerw thi.. and em

inquire If he wa not mietekon.
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Br. John A. Donovwi,^

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Ify dear Sir; «

Oki re«dii« your interest ing account of your

Big Chne Hunt in the CaaaSar Region I feel impeUad

to urite and aak if either you or Br. Luke preaerred aiy

akulla of the Oriaely leaara killed.

I an tryii« to complete a menogn^h on the Big
Bears of imerica, on «hicb I have bean eogi^ed for more than
twenty years, and «n aisioos to see as aanj skulls as
possible before lettii« the Bsumseript go to press.

Toa my be surprised to knos that two perfectly
distinct Bpaeies of Qriszli^s oocar in the KUppan regioxu
Wa lHtT0 In the Attional ■oMum a nomber of okallo frca this
ragion* but moot of thorn am innaturot adalt aalaa and f ooali
boii« very oeareo«

If you haTo ono or mora akolls and would bo wilUiE

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to. loan ma the aama for a ahort timOt I should be groatly
obliged. Sudi specimens should be sant by eipresst chaxges
colleetv addressed H. S. Biological Surrey t Department of
AgrioulturOt Washington^ D.C*

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Jlbernl« British Columbiaa
Ify dear Sir:

Leamix« that you hare killed Grizzly Bears
in Iritish Ooltnibia, arjl being ^^ceedingly anxious to
see as many skulls of these animals as pw^jti^ fj^^
any part of British Coluinbia, I take the liberty \r<a. ^^^
if, in case you ha¥e sny skulls , you would be wiiii^o
to loan th«i to me for a short time* If ao, they ahould
be aent by azprtaa, charges colleett addreaaed U. S.
Biological Survey t Department of Agriculture , Waahington

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Ify dear Miss Dickerson:

Tery tnw^ thai** for your court e«y in
BwAii^ me two copies of the Hoyonber Journal. I
am much interested in Dr. Ibttheir's article on the
fossils of the asphalt beds at Rancho La Brea.

Vith best vishes.

Tery truly yours.

Miss Mary C. Dickarson,

Iditor. imerican llussum Journal, , „^ ^

American liusaixn of Natnral History,
lev York City.

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freehold, n.Jo

Der Sir;

Meiy thaiks for your letter of the 10th

infant in reply to m i»i^^^ »^* *^« ^'"^ "^
Orl episode. The fact that the Skunk ejected his
^t is in aooord with i*at usually happens in sudi
cases if we may judge from the odor on the feathers
of many Great Horned 0»ls.

Thai&ii^ you for yovur proinptness in
furnishing the Information desired.

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lashlngfcont !>•'''•

Toor loWw of the 9th in.ta«l c«n« (talj. I
.™r«iat. yo« c»art»y in .ff«-i«g *» -!•* *= ^'"^

„ «. tat I «W0" 1* i' "<" *" *• *^ " *'"
Oh«rol.t C. .t Hint, the troobl. i. ^ ^^ ^
fr„ci.co .««* of th. J-vl-on ^™r«"6 «■>• ^^-^ '« ™

.h«* th. ti.. of ->iF.«* »' *• <- *" "• '"tr^i

Octob« 16 b. prani..d to ^iV it witMn four day. at l^.t.
art .tat- that it would «rl« at Hint .Itt-in t«nty da...
A. a «tt- of f«t h. did not *lp it fr- S«. »r«--i««»
»tU t^« w*.Ut.r. B-id.. all «.i.. -jf — " *•
„. ,.r.onall7 in.t«d of to th. Ch«rol.t Oo, *icb -a.
rtupid hlund.r. tod fi«llT. a l.tt.r *d* h. «»*•=»

^»..d to Hi,*. «i*ie». - •"* "■ '"^Z^ '"^J^.

*«. for th. f«i«ht i*ZZ^.m) .hcuKi ^ •»* *° *• ^"u-r-
^.l«ht ».mrda« Oo. at Ohlceo to on.„ to .«ur. U. . i-n
of th. oar at flint. On r,o.lpt of thl. letter I ^' '^
f or«rt«l ,a« to th.. Chevrolet Motor Oo. ..«ng th« to kindly

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aU«ni to the ««tter, as I had ■ ant them my chack for the
moant in quertion ($225.50) aeveral weeks previously. I
offered to prepay the frel^ at San Francisco, "but the
agent told me that It nas not necessary and could be as well
eollocted on ^eliwry.

Thankli« you for your Interest In the matter, and
trustiig that the car Is now in the haaJa of the Chevrolet

Co,

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. lh« infonmtion you wmntad about Dr. Ulm
I^raotay Jtt»tncwb6«»m.to«qulr«. Hi.
•«0-.cr. Dr. 7- A. Oa-t.a. 1616 I Strait. .tat«
STbt. Allan is In California whara ha ia likely to
aattla paman«itly» Ha ia not in good haalth, and will
probably narar aesain taka up the praetiea «f dantlatry»
bub ii^teaA ia llkaly to mgag)^ i» flrult growing. Many
of vm hara in Vubingt oo rigrat deeply that we are to ba
daprired of Dr. AllflB*a aanricea; at the aeme time we
haTa oonf ideme in his aneeaaaor. Dr. Qaateel.

Tlahar mak^ mm to tranmlt the inclosed to you<
With b*«t wlshast

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Dear Sirs:

If not already «old, I should 'be glad to
pturemse fron your recent eatalogae Ho% 69« J.C.lVemontt

SeGgraphical Ms&olr i^on \lpfer Calif omi^. IMS. 75 ets«

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Dear Sir:

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If not already sold/ I should he glad to
^par^hBBt tha f oHoricg^ hcdcs ftcm your Qatald^e M(
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Washington, Cu.

Ify dear Renslunr:

It is encouraging to laam from your letter of
the m instant ttiat you have not yet iaauad an irrevocable
•diet with reapect to Itama Ho. 6. Appw^ently you lia^e
fpiBottan the existence of «ie fine aeries of superb
photograTures rwde yeai^ ago for Fauna 6. Biese are no
ordinary half tones such as the governnent is tasking
today, but genuino photogratures on penasnent paper.

Probably no one feels more keenly than I the .
annoyance caused by the delay in the con^letion of Faunas
6 and 9. However, both were largely written long ago, aid
a compaistiTely small amount of time is necessary to conqplet.
them. «w trouble has beett in the pressure of other metiers
to find the time. But Rraie was not built in a day, aid
scisntif ic research is not one of the things that may V,
hurried without detriment. .

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Chief t Biologic&l Surrey.

Yainin^Qnt D*C«

Dear Renahan

On IRoYBraber 14 you wrote me that you had a
letter from Homer Sargent stating that he had shipped
to the Biological Surrey two Bear akulla fron Caldiu
Qreela« a tributary of White Rivert and that you would
let me know when they arriTed« Baa anything heen heard
from them yet?

Tou hare pexiiiqpe heard of a report by Conrad

Sieraa on the aubject of the raiaing of Reindeer on a

ecKuereial aeale in Canada* Thia report « or monograph as

it ia oallad, waa prepared at the requeat of the Rt* Hon.

Robert L« Borden, Premier of Canada. Boubtleaa Palmer hi

a copy. The giat of the matter ia the urgent recomnendation

that Reindeer may be male to take the place of beef in the

▼aat atretdiea of northland where beef cannot be had. and

where the only meat aTailahle ia natlTe game. Ia there n(A

a grand opportunity for the Biological Survey to puah

Reindeer faming in Alaaka, thereby accooopliahir^ a double

good: by leaaaning the neoeaaity for the killir^ of nafcive

game 9 and at the aame time fumiahing natives with whole-*

some occupation?

Tery tr^4y your a,

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R%ht Honorable

Robert Lc Borden.

Plremier of (ienadt^.
Ottawa^ Oanaoao

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If copies of the rej crt by

Conrad SieoiB of Her York on the raiairg

of Reindeer are available for distribution

I should be greatly obliged if you will

kindly have one sent to my addresSo

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Curator I State ftisKoit

Ifciiversity of Washington,
Seattle, Washii^on.

Dear Sir:

Please pardon my delay in replying to your
letter of Hovember 25, which arrived during iny recent
absence from the city.

I have today compared the photographs you sent
with specimens in the collection of the Biological Survey,
and find that the animal whose skull you found on Ihidbey
laland is the Boossfvelt KLk, Gftrvus roosevelti. It
evident^ was a rather lazige male. The measuranents
^recorded on the photographs are evidently centimeters, not
millimeters; by moving the decimal one point farther aloqg,
they coma out all rig^t.

Tour discovery is of considerable interoet in
•holring that at one tij?e this sjlendid Wapiti had a range
much more extensive than a-^- j^rtient, and that it reached
some of the nearer islands in Puget Sound*

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Dear Sirs:

Inelosad is b^ dx9ck for $1 in pa^flient
of ■abMrlption for Yestem field for the year 1914.
Kindly send a receipted bill for the sane.

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I ahoold likt to ranov my subseription
for tpro cqpidfi of Tbrerb mod Straai for tho yoar 1914t
and wiih to knov ibat io tho cost of tvo eoplos of
the BMeulno*

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Oaeamlisr 16, 1913.

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Ifidi Oortit Straei.

DaoTer* Oolorado*

Ba«r Sin:

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tho TMT 19U. Kin Ay s«xl roeoiFtod bill

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Yoodatook,

QbtATio, OonadA.

Soar 8int

Soelosod is postal money order for $1.5<
in payment of •ubeerlption to Bod & Oun in Oanada
for the ye«r 1914. Kindly seal a reeeipted bill 1
tho 0inc«

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460 . 4th Kreet.

San Tranciaco, California*

Dear Sirs:

Indoaad ia my chadc for $1.50 in payment
of aubacription to Sunaet for the year 1914* Kindly
receipted bill for the aame.

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IncloBed is niy di«ck for |1 in payment of

aubacription for The Red Man for the year 1914. Will
yott kindly send a receipted bill for the aame?

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December 17, 1913«

Outdoor World Publiahiiig Oo.
2 Doane Stroet,

Heir York City*

Bear Sirs:

Incloeed you will find $4 in pa3^ent for tve^

cppies of Outdoor World arid Hecreation for the year 1914.

This ie in accordance with the terme of my Bubscription

of laat year*

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3406 - 34th Place,

Waahii^ont D.0«

Dear Xr. Lembkey:

On retumiiTg to the houae last evening 1
was glad to f ixui the baekets you had left for me*
Herewith I am inclosing check for $16 in payment for
the same, which I trust you will find satisfactory.

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Hsnry ▼. Henehay, Isa

fthfdf , Biological Survey,
WaaEir^on, D.«J.

Soar Henshflor:

Yours of yeaterday at hand. Tou aeam to !)•
laborir« under a moat extraordinary hallucinafcioa in
thii*iJ« that Fauna 6 has anything to dc with' Ground
Sdulrra.. Fauna 6 conaists of the Marratife of the Death
Talley Ixpedition and tha Report on Maninala. Ita title
ia fte^eath Talley ftcpeditien PartJI. If yo" ^^^ e^*^
at the titlc^age of Fauna 7. you wUl aee that ita title
la The Deatii Y^ley Jgeditlon Part 11. th« photogravures
of which I spoke are aa different aa possible from the
colored around Squirrel pl^ea. whi* evidently you have
in mind. The platea of Fauna 6 relate mainly to acenery.
althoi^h one of thaa givee aeveral views of the Death
Talley Fox reproduced from photographs.

I quite agree with you that the nufnber to be borne
by the ©round Squirrel Fauna is not of the slight eat

conaaquence.

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55 WMt 36th Street a

Nour Tork City.

Bear Sirs:

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The vest podcat opera glass which you sent me
soooe time ago came duly, and was satisfactory except that
the buckskin case for the same is so much shorter than
the instrument that one of the glasses protrudes*

Herewith I am inclosing $6 for two more of
these glasses, and shall be obliged if you will kindly
see that the oases are big enoygh to contain them«

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Mr* Arthur L. Dav,

HcDio Saereiary, National Acadamy of Sciancaa*
Smithsonian Irj0titution«
Yaahingtorit D«C«

Daar Sir:

Iha papar you aant ma on The ]\itura of tha

Rational Acadaay of Seiencaa by C^aoxiga !• Hala reaohad

ma about a waak ago« and haa baan raad with much intarast.

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BUXLDENGr*- Iha oarryipg out of Dr. Hala* a
racorasendati ona praauppoaaa a condition of financial
plathora quita ramota from tha Acadany*a traaaury. War a
thia financial difflciaty OTarccma, I haartily concur
in moat of tha racooniandatior0« fully agraai ng that it
is difficult to ovaraatimat^e tha yalua of a auitabla

dignifiad building fn cormandii^ public appreciation Bxd
atqpport*

PaBLiaATICr... Tna diairability of tha publleation
of BrOMalllgg i« cart'Ainly opan to diff aranoaa of opinion.
Othar things axaal, tha ■oltiplication of aerial publications
of a mi8calia::aous charactar is, it saema to ma, to ba
daplorad. Hoiravar I admit that a publication of tha kiid
prqpoaai?, if backad by lar^a financial raaoircaa ani tha
nacei^aary adi tor ial aklil, might ba of advaj^taga to tha
m^TuDardS of tha Ac^uteoiy and also to Amarican acianca*

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particularly If It would result In tha diacontinaajica Of
oartaln wall-nlgb usalaaa puWications wltJki which our
■halvaa al^ now burdanad — auch. for inatanca. »a tha
praaant Jwrml of tha ¥aAii«ton Acadony of Sciencea.

UCTURS.- Br. &fcla*8 argument in favor of
laoturaa of tha hifji diaractar of thoao ha racatmenda
carriaa much weight, and I incline to the belief that
Buoh leeturea would benefit both the public and tha
Acadeo^. Their value would be greatly enhanced if the
Aeadanr had a buildii« of ita oan In which they could be

given.

LIBRARf.- I quite agree with Br. Hala in th»
feeliic that the imbility of our lational Acadaray to
azohaz«e publicationa with the leading acientific aocietiea
of tha world hw been and <■ a detriment to the Acadaay,
and a distinct loaa to American men of acianoe. Iha
difficulty workara in varioua fielda encounter from time to
time in finding certain voitmaa of for<»ign seriala ia too
wall knoan to need coomeit. and I am not one of thoae who
bolieve that one copy of a book in a city is aufficient.
A library ia alwaya a giithariig place, and if the Acad«ny
had a building of ita own I feel sure that ita liorary
would be one of ita moat uaeful parts.

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Arthtur L. Day iRJ

In coocluBion, it ie obvioue that Dr. Bale**
rdccmaeniatioMi cannot be carried out without the
poeseBBion of riches. Were the necesMury meane at hand.
I fully concur in nearly everytjaijag Dr. Hal* hae said
with reapect to the advantages likely to aoerae to cur
National Academy and to Inerican men of science in gonaral.

Dr. Hale's manuscript is herewith returned.

Tery truly yours.

P8. In case Dr. Hale's paper is printed, I trust the editor
will ccniplete the footnote references lay adding the dates,
which in the nresent mmitscript are strikinf^y absent.

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Dr. John A. Donoyan,
Batt«. Montana*

Dear Sir:

▼ary mnj tbaita for yow l«t*«' »' *^® ^^^
inatai*. replylt« to m^ Inquirlaa about Bear akaH.. and
alao for your courtaay In glTlng me additional addreaaea
of peraooa from •hem mafcerial laaj poaaibly be obtained.
I appreciate alao the aeparate of your intereating
artiolea. and your reference to (bief Juatica Ford'a
article In the Utanury Dig»«t of loTember 29. I had not
aeen thia. and ahaU look it up today.

P. K. Barrtiam of Vtm York, of whom you apeak,
aent me hia'atalla laat winter. They were of much

aasiatance.

If you fhould ever riait Waahln^on durii^ the

winter or aarlr •k1^. ** "^^^ Slv« «« sr^mb pleaa-are to
«ou th* collection* of the Mologloal Survey and

Hatlonal Aiaeanu ,

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iKtional Go(»f»phid Soeiaty,

Washington, B.C.

Dear Ibr* QrosTanor:

Manj thanks for your latter of yastarday,
tailing ma that fiva ocpias of Scsnas f rom Irary Land
hara baaa plaoad at my disposal, and of faring to hara
tha ssma mailad by tha Sooiaty to iBdiridoal addrassas
indieatad.

Jn coBiplianea with this priTil iga, I incloss
list harasith.

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Daeambar 20, 1913<

Vational Oa^srsshio 8oai^,

WashinESton, D«r;«

naasa send the copieil of "Scenes from
Irery Land* bound in red. leather to:

(Ins) C. B. niiott

(iddrass) Li«;anitas, Ibrin Oo., Oalif6rnia«

(Ibn*) UsB T. Cfartf*

(iddrass) Lagonltas, Kurin Co., Callfoml*.

nsMS S6ni ths eopias boucd in cloth to:

(HflBw) F. M. Conssr

(Address) Balisn School, lOyorsldo, O&lifomia.

(Noras) Oeo. W. Stsswrt
(iddrsss) Tisalia, Cslifornia.

(Hani) Hajor 0. ?• Msrriam

(Addrsse) 3Q15 Hsrrard BoulsTard, Los Angolss, C&llf.

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Washington, D#0.

Dear Doctor Walcott:

Eeplyii:^ to jovr latter of the 20th instant,
Inclofllng a request trcm Hon. Jamaa IfcAndrawB asking
that ccpias of my forthcoming nrionograph on tho Bears
he sent to certain persons mentioned, I would eay
that the expense of this publication is likely to be
80 great that I hardly think the Smithsonian Institution
wo^ild ba willii^ to undertake Its free distribubion*

Mr* IfcAadrews* letter Is returned harsp^ith*

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Lakota Hotel,

Chicago, 111.

My dear ?J[r. Saricrant:

It is good to hear from you again, and to leam
something of your recent trip in the north.

The skulls you menticai have not yet arrived,
but I shall be iniglity glad to see them, as the locstlity
from whicih they come is a long way from^any ^ecimen that
has so far reached us. I greatly appreciate your kindness
in giving me tile privilege of studyirg these specimens,
anl your generosity in presenting the larger skull to the
Biological Survey for the National Collection. I will see
that Both skins and the skull of the female are ret^omed
to the address on the card, as you direct.

With best wishes.

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Dear Sirs: ^ ^^^ f onmrding

«.^ hm iHtereBtad in the folloirlng facts.
Troainsss, yoa my. ba in^«^ .^ v, xx„« t «« at

On Octobaf 15 last, it wMch time I was at

BlcMam. or Wa.hi.«ton. D.O. .t . !•••

ly « th. J.r.on to .h™ I ~ tatting .« tti. "" •>» *"
had m-ltfn th. Utt. m ,«»tlon. H. r«,li«l tb.t h. ~
th. .«.. U tht if th. «« «r. dlivovad to h*. -Ithin a
aay or t,o h, wouU Aip It within f=«r 4»T.. «* «»* »*
..niM r««h Flint. 5llchls». to .'oc^t t,«.ty d.^ fro» th.
ti™. I 1.0 «*.a *.th« I oV>».U pay th. fr.lgl* in a-.--
.r at d..tln.tlo.. H. r«pU.d that thi. «.d, no dl^fer.«^
I told hlM thorotor, t^t 1 wouU TranB. to ha« It paM «
th. car., arrlv^a at nlnt. Klohl*^- 1 ^"U Ur. ta.l. that I

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to tha GheTTolet Motor Co. nik. lliAi^, and told him that
I would dellTer the car to hJm ait*«r tfia1^aftemooIl (the 15th)
ur the following day. The n«zt day (October 16) I had tha
ear dalwarad to Mr. Barla. and reealYed a receipt for the same
wlVh tha amount of the freigjit bill. $225.50. entered thereon.
*i Wovenibar 6, the car then being about Avs at Flint. .1 sent
tie Cherrolet Co. $225.50 to.|>ay freight thereon. Biey replied
th* the car had not been recelTed. After receiring almilar
di^ppointing news from them from time to time. I finally, on

iber 28, -wired your agency at Uonadnock Bldg. San Prancisoo,
to t»ee the car and wire me result. The next day (November 29)
I reoiyad the following reply: "Oar shipped sixth; should be
in Hint nc(r". In other words, your agent deliberately deceived
■• as to tha time of forwarding the car, holding the aame fully
three woeka after he had agreed to ship it, so that it was
still in his hands at the time it was due at Hint; and as a
matttr of fact it did not reach Hint until tha 17th of
Daoauibar — mora than two montha after I delivered it to your
agant In San TrmciacOt «id Instead of being addressed to the
Ghevrolet Co* aa per instructions, it was addressed to me per*
aonally* Aa a result, I have been deprived of the uae of ngr
oar during the fall and early winter. These are merely facta

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Dear Sire: ,^+^^ «f tMMtii Inatant (elgn^

Your canfortii« latter pi tM i.fT» ^ ^^,

0. E. Wagner) «mou«,ix« the ^.rriTa of ^i^ «r «^ -^. •
a«o and gave me imioh encouragemen*. end npw I ».«». ^^.- ,
!^ti^ further n.« f^ T^ ^ '^P^ *^ ^ '^^'^^^^ '*^
Octohar a. November 21. end ^o^^^Amr 2Z. ;.^-^d^

on October » I au60«rted .ettli« t^, rumii«^^^

- x... ^..^mI ao that ihe rear door on
trtnk aboat an inch farther for«M* w «»«* r

_^ «^ -««r*^ed aleo that the,l«iQg ^x*
that Bide could he used, apd ePBgertea a^eo. «» , >5^ ^^^

ifeidi att^die. tA« tru* to the ruiming bo«rd,he »dft ;ko pas.

completely throu^ «- -nnii^ board tool h«, in ofder to
obTlate the preeent etrato on tn^lf^ 4>f th.. tod b«. It
occur, to m. n<- ho-ever that .top*, I,f. not Ift^j to,.t-rt

b«k for California hef ora^l- ^ ^ ^^11 or e«-ly U-y-J^e
running board «»uld>l^ betUr witiioat the hole., -Id I -irirt

haTO the cba«e rH^^ h-re ju.t before eetUx^g a«t. ^^^

contain, the t^oi. and the air how for Uoplflg

If yott would like to get into it. I wiU .end yc

you take the' tnn* off to fix the lid., which ^re now -or*

l«e out of v^ape. yom-i^t .end the rurming b-xd ,trunk

here eeparately, anU.. it will rid. eafely era

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al ii^ or so 421 depth Wouldjbe a great haliu ^:T B«hry in tiLli
tray tht^ Weed c^ialiSie, jade, ar^ I^ene, and mxdd ll&a also to
carry an ext^m Inner ttibe or tlrou^hlch is now inqpossible. You
will^pptice that 1 had to cut places in the bottom board to '
allow .i)»xl^#i4 tijOttXe and the jack to go in at all, the tray

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lyrene could he camM itt^ont being imduly conepietK
T^iib^i^^fii^lt' io' riwiiltel^^^

ie^pii|t>n ri^Heay leek, caueing part of ths difficulty
in iiirtliK. ""It *ir*)iii^"^t you are going to fix the
li'.will 1^ d wirt RtacMr in the eoldeat kind of weather, eren
you haVe to add ^i Primer^r- :. --^

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,»." no 't»i.:o e"-: or,, oxxi. t ., ^ •.- _j. -i

after we entered the MeTada nil 1<^|I|, nd that we loet a couple^-

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not'ha,. ...«Ul«.Wl-nt«y hof. pcibly of »«« *al* t^^-
*lch wo;w«.*. a 6.ntl, or .y*°'».lc.l .c«d .uffici«.t ior
orflmry »». retaining th, t1-e.«* t«rrlM. •»■'« /f "^

anergenciea. si - * x,.

I am. told that there are oij«.^ l-*meW flM of th*
Fireetone t^.e.one of which, if I ranaabe* ttoeoitai* correctly,
1. the St;rmeld. I knor nothim about tliaae «^^ o-to tw
prefere«.e. I lun merely az^ou. to Im^ th«^V^^l« ."^^
before the car comee b«i. I l^ve alread:.^iJ?Men 7^

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practicability of aMad^ing, 7- new^^^J^^o' ^ c^ ^^
it se«^ to me m^t be one of the gref est mngajW n-de a part
of any .atcobile. a«ll ^ most ax^^ious to have ^one on rny car.
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perfect as etich things- can be. ^^

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DoEur Professor Cwiklin:

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It seems utterly hopeless for me to submit
ncmlnatlons of zoologists for manbership in the National
Aoademy. The trouble is we all specialize too mucht and
as a result knofr very little of the work of those engaged
along differait lines. 7o%iy mind it is a stunning oomoiantary
on preswit condititftis in biology that laboratory professors
in the various universities are nominated and some of them
elected every year to the National Academy « i^ile stioh men
as Nelson, Bailey, and Preble. i4io have devoted their lives
to biological explorations in remote regions, who have raade
mohumental contributions to our oaqprshension of the distribotian
of animals and plants, and who hears published critical
revisions of groiqMi and splendid treatises on various
feature of the faunas and floras of extensive areas, are so ^
little known to the members of the Academy that their names
cannot even be placed in nomination*

On previous occasions I have expressed my fe^lii^s
with respect to David Starr Jordan, the greatest ichthyologist
^e world has ever produced.

Ihen such men as I have mentioned, who have risked

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their liyee a hundred times in the search for needea aaT>».
•ifl who hare mOmnyjiAi in5>ortant contributions to knoirledge.
receiTe no recognition from the soologists in the Academy.
is it'straise that I should have no stomach for the labors
of t>» nominating committee?

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with card of greetinpjfrom Mr. Riordan.
Thinking him atlU In San PranclBco.
we had eenb carda to him and to Un,
Kenealy at 34dV Pacific iTenue,

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T^'^^ Yea will remember that at the time of thi

r^tlitiit meeting o^'^fte 3oard I had not heard from Bert

Gr« Phillips of TaoB, Ner IXericot concerning the

location of certain nevly named peaks which were

before the Board. at that tiiae* Since the meeting

Mr. Riillips* letter has arrired, containing a rou^

disgram showing tha location of the mountains in

question.^! copy of itiis'^slketch map I am inclosing

herewith for your file*

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Washington, D.n.

Dear Mr. Sloano:

Tour letter of yesterday has just arrived,
with proof of decisions of the Qeqgraphic Board on

December 3*

The relative positians of Oahrastc and Latir

Peaks are exactly reversed, and I have corrected them in

accordance with the sketch map of Bert Phillips, a copy

of which I sent you a few days ago, I have also added

the direction of Virsylvia Peak from Latir Peak.

The proof is returned herewith*

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Dear Ur. Brodce:

In the accumulated nsiil ibich awaited me
on mf return from California is a notice from you
reapectit^ aeparatea from the Proceedinge of the
lashli^ton Aoadeny of Sciences. The list which you
860t me mentions six of my P^P^" of which you still
hare copies In stodc. I should he glad to purchase
50 copies each of these, wtA will renft for same on
receipt of hill indudii^ cost of deliTery*

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Editor, Rod ard Ghm In Canada.
Yoodetock, Ontario, Canada.

Ify dear Sir: . ^.

Very rmiry tharfcs for your letter of the 18th
instant, in reply to my inqiiiry concerning the aathenticity
of certain statements in a recent nunber of Rod and Qon.

In the course of your letter you allude to one
or tiro rery recent cases in which VoItsb have attadced

•s.

or treed men, Imt without giving aty details. Yea say,

•A well authenticated instance of this occurred only the

other day at the Soo*, and add that *althou^ the winter

is still your« these brutes [wolves] hare been responsible

for a tragedy in the woods «f Hortheni Quebec.* These

statements are of the utmost interest, and I hope you will

kindly give me all the exact information you possess about

tha — particularly the localities, dates, and nazoes of

persons attadced. Tou are doubtless aware that most of our

naturalists disbeliere accounts of Wolves attacking men

in America. Oeneral statements to the ef fbct that Wolves

have treed or even have killed men are of course worthless

go far as evideoee goes, but if exact data can be secured,

the ease is very diff<^ront, and I shall be very greatly

obliged f or axxy information you may be able to contribute

in the way of exact inf onnation which would constitute
evidence or lead to the obtaining of unquestionable evidence.

Very truly youra.

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Assistant Secretarjr. Smithsonian Institution.

Washin^on, D.O. •

Dear Ur. Rathbun:

Owing to various more pressir^ matters
since my return from Oalifomia, I have only just
new had time to look into your recent report on the
^m National Museim BuiHirg. ^

The detailed information, diagrams, and
illustrations, whidi you have taken the trouble to
publish, will be of great assistance to persons
interested in the construction of museums, and if you
have copies to spare, I should be greatly obliged if
you will send three to persons actively interested in
the erection of the nm museum of the California
Aeademsr of Sciences, namely:

Wm. H. Crocker, President of the Trustees , Hrocker Bank,

San- ftrinclsco, California

John W. Ifaiilliard, 300 Front Street, San Prancieco
Lewis P. Hobart. Architect, Crocker Building, San Prancl«<

With the coogpliments of tl» season.

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Dear lilr. Adtowt

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Dacenb-r. •««ntli« to $43.52. ■•l«y rouriier for
Holan Grorar. $110, and rouoher of HolBon H. Kent
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Saoretary. U. S. aeqgrajiiic Boards
Washingtony i)«C«

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Tours of yaaterday at hand* Sridently this
and my letter t6 you eroaaed on the way* Apparently we
hare made the aame correefciona^tn the proofs Biit with your
letter «u Inclot^ the Aeteh nap \j Bert Hiillips, ibieh
I aent you for your file* I aaanrae that it waa aant by
aoeideit, and therefore am retumiiig it herewith , aa it
may he conrenient for reference another time.

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page proofs of tho tofc of ProfoMor Torrill** StarfldMO
(Harrlwm iUaka Sorlee TA. Xlf), floi«0 1 to 49 with
print«r*t proofs of Itcmntm^ proofs of HJplsMitioos of
fUiss, nd aMMSoripi «f IiisK, roooivod yostwpisyt ^o''
sbiflh I MB obligod. I IB rottoBdug tho ssm to you horwith
to 190 psssod on to tho priotor.

Iho p^M of ftq^Umtlons of lUtss will of eonrso
bo boant in to fsoo tho plaios to vhloh thfj roUto.

Ihan tho l«wls for Flstos 1 to 49 aro trusf orrtA
frcM tho proof sbHts to tho plotos tfaanssLvot, I ssrass
that tho wdbors and aasas vlll bo oanfolly Tffifl«4
\j soBO one in your of fieo.

IhoQ tho oorrooiions iniioaboA in tho pig* proof
ImYo boon xmd», I shsll bo obligoA if you wUl sond as a
di9lioato copy of tho final roriso for w ^^**

Ob tho tiUijiCiS I Imito strikon o«t tho paronthssos

ioBlosii« ^-t IToKi sad lyt II Watos,

Hi ftnthsnnoro thoro aro too othor parorthotioal

aaflh of tho titltpogos.
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a copy of Jmar lean Big Same Hunt ii^, 1901 1 bock of iie
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receipt. I ahall be obliged if you will kindly aerd
tne aaroe*

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26 Baai 2lBt Street.

N0ir York Clty.

Bear Sirs:

(ta December 16 I sent you my chock for
$1.50 in payment for reneiial of flubecription to Fiela
and Stream. I have not aa yet receiyed a receipt
for the same. I shall be obliged if you will kindly

8 end receipt.

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Janiiary 6t 1914.

Ifr. Homer £• Sargent,
Lakota Hotel,

Chicago, Ill«

Dear Mr* Sargent:

Your two Srizzly akins and skulls frcm Caldem
Cred: arrived yesterday » and I have just taken a preliminary
peep at them* Both skins and skulls prove to \>e of unusual
interest, and I will write you about them more fully as
soon as the skulls are returned frcm the cleaner* It is
an \musual thing to receive at the sa^e time two skulls
of perfectly adult big Bears of aiy kind, about nine out
of ten being cubs or innature, as a rule.

The skull of the male, without criticid comparison,
might easily be mistaken for that of the Stikine drizzlj^
but the skull of the female is widely different from that
of the Stikine species, and seems to be thftflonyT;* Of this
however I cannot be antirely certain until it ccmes back
from the cleaner*

The difference in the skins is most strikir^*
were surely fortunate to seoure such splendid fifpecimana*

With best wishes,

Taiy t2:^ly yours.

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Dayton, Ohio.

Ify dear Judge Sprigg:

On returning from California soma time ago I
found your letter of October 22 about your Polar Bear skulls,
kindly offeripg to send them when they had been returned
from tlie cletner* Since they have not yet arrived, I
thoi:^t I would take the liberty of writing again, as I
am very anxious to see th^ja* If you will kindly have them
shipped by aa{)raas, chaziges collect, addressed U. S*
Biological Survey, Departinent of Agriculture, Was!:iirgton,D.O,
I shall be greatly obliged*

You may be interested to know that we have
recently received half a dozen Grrizzly skins and skulls
of unusual interest* Some of these were collected by Preble
ai^ Gross north of the Skeena River in British Cclumbia; the
others by Homer Sargent on a tributary of White River in
Yukon Territory*

Ysry truly yours.

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Hon* R. H. Caarobell.

Datartmeril of the IntarioTt
Forestry Branch,

Ottawat Canada*

Dear Sir: i

Many thanks for your letter of the 2d inatantt

md accomparyir^ copy of your report for the year 1912*

The report I had in mind in writing to the Right
Honoiarabla, the Prime Minister, was one mentioned in the
December nimber of a publication entitled Rod and Sun_in
Canada* The article in question states (page 73B):

Conrad Siems of Kew York, who ▼*• wmagtag
owner of a series of tradiiK posts in ilaaka In
the early •90st has prepare! a monograph at the
request of Rt. Hon. Robert L. Borden, premier
of Canada, in which he deals witii seTeral phases
of development, inclulii^ the raisiiK of reindeer
on a coimercial scale* He sajr? the dominion
gpvemment could afford to go into the matter
thoroughly*

Your own report howevar contains mzch matter
of interest to me, both on the shipment of Reindeer
described, and on tha range of tlie Wood Buffalo*

Thankii^ you for your courtesy in the mafcter.

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Chevrolet Motor Co,

Flint, Uichigan.

Dear Sirs:

It is now throe weeks since you received my

car, but I have not yet had a single word from you in

aiKwer to my nuueroua questions, and have no information

as to what you are doing to the car and TJhan I may expect

it.

I am laJcing an eflort to be patient, but
havir^ bou^t the car more than eight months ago and having
had the use of it less than four mon-hs, all wold, you will
pardon ae for feeling a little anxious to have another ride

in it.

There are one or two small points not mentioned

in previous letters. One is, the aboance of an oil can or a

pUca to put one. Another is, the distance of the magneto

key from the driver's seat. I cannot reach the key without

changing my :>^,8ition and leanirg far forward, which is awkward.

particularly if another parson is In the front seat. However.

to change th«- position of the magneto would, I suppose, mar th$

synmetry of the dash board.

I VIS disappointed in not finding any of your cars

at the Mew Tcrit Automobile Show.

Very truly yours.

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Yours of tha 3d instant arrived this morning.

I «. dalightad to iqum that you have taken up the Bears. You

will find than imnenaely more interesting than birds. But

your nomenclatura and list of species are hardly u^o date.

The published American species of Grizzlies conmonly recognized

UrsTiB alascensia

califomleiiB
horrlaeufl
horribilie
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richardaoni
The published vmlid spociea of big Brown Bears ar#:

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The only Polar Bear cormonly recognized is Thalarct
nMjrIt'WVfT It is jproper to state however that the Polar
Beari^f have boon split up and variciiBly named, though the
alleged forms are not coDinonly recognized*

In addition to the published Bears above rnenticned,
I have in manuscript descriptions of several additional
Grizzlies and Brown Bears, which are likely to be published

in the near future*

It any time you find it convenient to come on hore

I ahall be verj^ glad to place at your disposal a large and
entertaining series of Boar elculls.

With host riches,

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Dear ProfeBSor Ifarvin: -

lh»t is fKe trouble with the mailing of ths i
leather Map? Today. January 6, I have received the mq?
for Sunday. January 4> four days late. ¥ere thi. an
exceptional case I should not mention it. but the «p.
usually arrives on the fourth day after the day to which
it relates, and therefore of course is o^ jao practical

use.

Your nsw departure in printing the Northern

Hemisphere weather map on the tdA^^cf the IMted States
nq, ia a great advance, and i cong»tulate you or having
brcwKht thdB abotcba

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7^«. whicdi you rocom^nd. I a..um« of cour.a
electric starter which you rac ^ notmting

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that you wiU- not flisi,i«>«^ ^ ^ ...^ -ni be pUced

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a battery box on th«B. bu» !•»>

attt<>fsigbt. '_1,"\ -^1 i« wiping with the

The diief regret I f«el in pwn^ine / ^ *u.

X 4 fc.^i.«ect to the inflation of the
con5>resssd air syste. Is in*e*po«t to vi^..

tZs, Ih^ri^ t^a . entire trip -^ ^e s^^-t «^f

ear ,n California. X never ^^ ^^ \^l.^:^^;rf^o...
n«lir^ the co^ressed .ir .•ttach.ent .1^ «^ -^

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r«».tanaes and therefor, wish you woujd attsA to th.
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consider aVie faith In tha Oray ftieuinatf c and in yoiir mechanical
' shift, irtiic^ i have heai^ al»ut fcut' ha ve no€ seen*

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neceeaary to repeat anything*! hive said in foroer letters.

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As there is no oil can in the car and no convenient

place to put one t could* you nfet plabi' one 'within the hood, as

is done in some carsT

Of the 6 tires h6w'*'onth«^

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wheels are used np. Please replace ITSie'se with tlie^wo on the
extra rlr» at tl» rear ^6f the car, but save fbj irner tubes
of th* dlBcarded^tfre«n' I do not' know %h^th«r ycu deem it
beet in -tibViBarfe of the'new Tireetorie' rims to c«rry only one
extra rim T>* ind "6^ lo^ cairry'tWo as at present* In either
case please ^quip tli^' Kttn fiii <Si^ rim with oversize straight

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6a«»y atout the .«ond tl«e H « a«d. «nc, *«> .^ l^"
h«l tlree other j^. nan. of which are eati.ff.to„. Tshould
Ilk. to sun:h«i. a firatclaas j»=k (the Burrett «;. .™ other
Te.117 good on.) If there 1. «nr pl«=. to pot it. The on. n,
with the o.^ J, Jp the "tray under the r.^, »»*. the bottoa of
which had to be cat o:,*., to hold, It .^. If thie tray could o,
deepened without danger of 8trikinB,.o.that it would hold a
good jack. theWead^.ch^. -d.NCOuple of in^er tubes, it
would be a great .convenience. .-<. ..:,:..

J assume that j;qu rgQeived^tbe^dama^ed parts, all of
which were retumad t^ you abou^ the^i^oe.I left^Oalifox^iia.
toe middle, of Octoter. As I^rote" the «aBpan3r_at the^time. the
•old bei^el gear r ins,, pinion, and case wer<r shipped you direct
frcm Reno. Hevada; all*of th^ other danaged ;partB, except the.
Wheel lugs, were sent you ifl. the car it8*l,f.^«?i were covered
by the Bhippii^ receipW- the damaged wheel lugs I returned
half a dozen of a month or po^.earliar, showing^ow the tops
had been eaten off by one of tho rims. .

Xn closing I„wish to express my iqppreciation of your
courtesy to nyself and family when we were in Betroit last June,
Ihm you next visit Washington, I hope you will not fail to let

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Dear Sirs:

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Very many thanks for your courtesy in
seirling me a statement of receipts <tnd dislnirsements
on account of the Harrlman Fund for the calendar yeai
1913* It was g) od of you to sand it without waiting
for my formal request* "^^

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Dear Dr. Bunnell:

Many thanks for your letter.
I am sorry to hear of Kealer^s illness,
and hope he is recovered ere this. By
the way. what is his address?

After we reaxjh Lagunitas next
spring, which I hope will be considerably
earlier than heretofore, I trust we may
have the pleasure of showing you sane of
the interesting drives in that neighbor-

hood.

With best wishes.

Very truly yours.

Dr. Sterling Bunnell,

Sdiroth Building,

San Francisco.

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PoBtmaster,

Crooks ton, Uirm.

Dear Sir:

A recent newspaper publishes an it am fran

your torn, stating that on January 6 the body of an
Indian killed by Wolves was found at Lake of the Woods,
and that the carcasses of 9 Wolves supposed to he killed
by him were found near by. Do you know if there is any

truth In this statement?

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Caninifls.Toner of Indian. Affairs,

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Sir?

A racent newspaper article states that
on the 6th of the presunt month the hody of an
Indian killed by Wolves was found at Lake of .the
Wood0. Minn, and that he was surrounded by the,
carcasses of nine Wolves which he had himself killed.

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wouii. ti^^y inquire of the Indiai^ liQ^vt or School' •
Si;ip3rinte!*,,_rit i^earest to lake of t':i9 Wocde as to

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Dear Vr. Kennan:

Taeterday Irs, Harrfman waa
here, and inquired about you. She
aaked me to aak you and Mrs- KenDan if
you would not call on har at hor ci-^y
houea (1 last 69th Street, Net York)
the flrat time you ara in that part
of the state, as she wishes to talk
with you on an inrportant matter*

I know you are "busy, and
trust that you and Mrs* Kennan are well,
ani that you will not stay away ftrora
Washington too long*

With hest wishes.

Very truly yours.

Mr. Seorge Kemmn,
Medina, N.Y.

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It i« a pity to bother a vaiy bui»y ««• ^^ *^*''®
are one or two additional mttera nhidi I would like your
advice on In connection with ay Chevrolet 6.

Is Monogram oil the best oil for general nae on the
car, and is Mbnogram greaee all right for ttfe eapn, and
Monogram yellow thick oU for the aleera toggle behind the
clutch? If aiy other oila or greaeea are to h# preferred, kindly

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Recently I haw been ioU that the Boach Two 8paA
Ignition Syatma is a marked Jnprovement OTor the olngla spark,
and th*b the jM^ers claim tlmt It gives la^ more power. If
this i« correct, would it not be. a good thing to bore the m-
occopled set of caps for an additional series of plugs? Do
you know the additicml cost of installlze the two 8pa«k system,
iriiich I belleva Is desieiated as ZR 6? I have no kick against
the preewit sli«le spavk system as It has never failed to woxk,
but if the double sparii really gives so much more power, it
might be worth payiig for, as the car is a litUe shy of power

on high.

I am very glad th«* you are Installing the Gray k Davis
Starter, since all I have bean able to learn about it is very

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Of course you will not fail tb thtflsfer tha crank
to the taol hox and pixi a cap in its pleura*

The doable tira carriers on my car are by far the

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siznplist and best I have ever seen/ €tnd haye eocclted a good
deal of attention. Doubtless they can be adjusted to the
new ria», »

In Hy prdTious letter in asking you to replace the
two worn out casipgs by naw ones I aientionad my preference for
fttrftiffM iflffft n?n-lMtlBi but said nothing about the make. I
shall be obliged if you will use your own judgjaant as to this,
Ihat I want is the casing that will last the longest, aid have

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Bear Sheldon: , ,,^. .,en Ihoouu. IfartiMale's n«r book.

Tou have doubtless seen *xi«ii«

-^ir^ in the Upper Tukoiv IB it all rls^rtf

nelson has be,n .!<* for about 4. week, and ws have
been scmeirhat wor*i^ a'boot him. The trouble started with a
sore throat and ran. Into an influenza with threatened pneumonia,
bat he has stagred in ^sd and la now on the mend.

If you succeed in paoifylne your Mexican frlaias, I
would be glad io Bake that Pinacata trip with y<»a next fall,
thoieh I do not beliere that tdsj^ promise so much of in5>ortance
as the Nevada Sheep. Howevar, this is. of course merely a guess.

Hav* just received a letter from Warburton Pike, who is
now in Tlctaria, He thir*8 of goii^ to flalifornia in February
or Uarch, but I do not expect to reach Lagimitas before the
end of Ihy at earliest*

Tou may be eurprised to laam — for I was — that the
old f«nale Ori«aly killed by Haner Sargent on Caldem Creek, a
tributary of White River, eeemfl to be perfectly typical ph^ggiyat*
It has nothli^ to do with either the TokUt or the Stikine Biars.
and this carries the r&rjgd of phanQnyr mach farther south thui
previously supposed*

Krs« Merriam biA I enjoyed our little visit with you
and the children veiy nmch. Give our love to llrse Sheldon. *^n
are you likely to ccme on here?

As ever yours,

Mr. Qmrles Sheldon,

8 Wast 9 th St^agt^

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In writing you yesterday T forgot to 8«y that

Shira8»8 flkull from Admiralty leland has juat cow to ub.
It ie the most aatounding thing you ever sajr. It is a huge
old male with a monetrouely high sagittal crest, and the
most astoniffcing postorhital processes ever seen. It is of
course not a &ris»ly at all, hut a big Brown Bear unknown to
ine» and havii« absolutely nothing to do with
Tf bears of this si«e are rannlng around loose on Admiralty,
no wondar tY» Indians used to carry rattles to keep they away.
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much higher than that of gyaa, Thara was nothing approaching
it among ^he Annie Alexaiider akulls, i*ilch I ret\irnad several

years ago*

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dreariied that stich a monster hear was to be found on this

island.

Tery truly yours.

Mr. Charles Sheldonj.,

8 Wast 9th Street. ,^
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Dear Pi'ofessor Scott:

Two or three years ago you were good enou^
to loan ma an old skull of a drizzly from the Port Union
TQ^ion near the junction of the Yellowstone and the Uissoiorfa
T\iB skull had no lower jaw. Recently I have been fortunate
enoq^ to obtedn several, skulls of the Plains Grizzly, for
wMch reason T em most a^^xious to ses yotir skull again, if
you are willit^g to loan it. kindly send it by express, chftnges
collect, addressed U. So Biological Survey, Departjnent of
AgrJcult^ore, Washir^ton, D.'].

With best wishes.

Very truly yours.

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132 East 23d Street.
New York City.

Dear Sir: ,

T'lapJcB for your recent catalogue of nar

bookB. I Bho'iU like to order from it, A History
of Lard Manmals in tjie f estem HemiBpTiere, Toy Im.
BorryTMui Soott, $5*

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Ghavrole^ Motor Co*

Flint, Midiigaiu

Dear Mr. Sprag^ie:

Ifany thaiike for your letter of the 12t;i instant
just received* I am delirAted to kno;? tliat the nei7 (Jrav &
Davis battery can gc iindar the "back eeat as before*

Ab tc the tire pump, I ain told hare that t>:a
Kello^ pujiip i& a ven/ good otie, but pereonaliy I Knew
PothiMT about it BTid leave the iiiatt»er to your i\3d^^?i»nt*

Ac tc t»he extra rim or rima, I abide by your
iu^nient alsoiv^%-aa»w I ^-^^*

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Dear Sirst

Tour bill datad January 6, araoimfcii^ to $48, for
differential oasa without gears sent to Reno. NeTadat Imb
credit of $7»56 for 2 aluminum caps /etumedpleaving a
balanoa of $40.44 « has juat reached me« I had preyioualy
received a atateraent from the Handera cn-Ronre Auto Co. of thia
city, agents for yoiir cars, covering certain other items for
parte shipped to me in Oalifomia last sunEoer. In addition
to the parts covered by these hills I received from you ivhile
in California several packages of parts sent C.O.D. on iftiich
I paid (exclusive of carriage) $56.99« Agjiinst this amount
was your credit of $7.66 for the two hub caps returned,
leavii^ $49«43, which I hold that you owe me«

For the articles billed on July 7, namely, 2 headlight
brackets amounting to $8.60/ andl door latch complete amo^jntir^
to $3.75, I Immm pald^^^i?^^ the Henderson-Howe Co, althoi:^^
the goods were neither wanted nor used, having been sent by
mistake thrcLi^ seme error In transmitting ay telegram. All
of the other articles without exception, so far as I am aware,
were sent to replace and did replace parts danaged in transit
without accident or collieicai. All of tl» parte were returned
to you for your Inspection bo that you might see the extent

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and nature of the injuries* And it might be added that all
of the Injuries occurred before the car had been driven three
months, and throu^ no fault of mine.

I have assumed that the Chevrolet Motor Co, like the
Cadillac, Cole, Hudson, and other conpanles, stands behind

their carsi and keep% them In good condition for at least one

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year from date of purchase, barrii^ accidents due to fault

of driver* If this view is correct, instead of owing you
$40.44, you owe me $49.43. If not correct, I should be glad to
learn aa early as poaaibla the attitiade of your canpargr with
respect to auoh Injuries to cars during the first year as
are not due to fault of driver.

To digress a moment. There appear to be curious
discrepancies and contradictions in the accounta that have
reached me. For Instance, for the first bevel ring 53T
supplied, the dbarga was $20.55. for the second one (the one
sent C.O.D.) the chazge^ot counting carriage^was $37.80, which
I paid. And it might be added parenthetically that five teeth
were cut out of the beval ring sent ms at Reno within three
days after it hri been placed In the car, as I wrote you at the

time.

It is ray practice to pay bills inroedlately, not to
let tham dn^ along, and I should be glad to know just wbera
we stand in this matter.

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Tou are ncfir doing a lot of work on ray cac for part
of which, aa I learn from llr. Sprague, there is to he no charge*
For other parts I am to pay, and will pay at once on receipt
of hill. In this connection I wo«:ild like to aiik whether I shall
remit to you direct or pay thjrough the Henders on-Rowe Co* of
which I purchased the car*

In ray letter to you written at Lagunitas, Oaliforniat

October 14 last, I said:

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"InasTTiich as several of these parts were sent C«0«D»
and inaismuch as their breakage was not due to any accident or
fault of mine, I assume that the amounts I haVe thus expended
will be credited to ray account' through the Henderson «R6we Co*
at Washington. The car Itealf , Ho. 178, I am nov returhli^ to
yoa trm San Rafael to ba repainted and put In perfect order,
after which kindly send to the Henders on-Ro«re Co. at
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Bear Mr* Orosvenort

Thanks for your letter of the
14th instant. I shall be most happy to
join the azeursion of the Board of
]fam«gars of 'the Katicnal Geographic
Society to the new plant of Judd ft Detweil
krd at the hour you mention (12:05) will
b« at tfce north entrance of the nm
national llasetia (lOth and B Sta.) unlass
I hear f^-om jou to the contrary. I should
h* piai hCTrerer to go to arqr other point
t*iioh mi<5ht he niore' convenient In order
to join others hound on the sKae errand.

#ery truly ycurs.

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Dear Sir:

Replyii^ to your letter (without date) which

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on the subject you mention, namely, the food value of
Jellyfish. Inasmuch however as jellyfish ar^ cooEroosed
mainly of water, it would take a vast nianber to fumiah
much notriznent. In case you wish t^. carry, the inquiry
furthar, I woyld 8i:e5e»t ^>>Tat you addross tho Bureau of
TlBheriee, Washington, D.C.

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■koU I bad prariouBlj aoan ftva this ialaid. It U ■ooh
laq^ar and aoro oaaalro. I ahoald bo ^ad to p^ ftm $4
to i]2 oaA f or aknlla of thooa taara ttvm iAilralty.
•••wdJag to aiio. mtx, and «onditl«n.,

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«d loy SWmit ar (Ila0lir W. aal • ,artlo«l«.ly anrfoaa
to obtain an adult or tiro ftro. thl. riBicB. FaaO- and
young woold bo aoeapt^U, y^ ^ partloularly nood th, «|«lt
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nana for aa>!ort tltl»V I ^btilftvreatly appraelata tha coiirtaay.

If you aand ar^ spacimana, plaaas dilp by e^raaa,'
chargaa collaotg addraaead U. Sa Bioloy^eal Sunray, Tbpartmant
of Agiiculttura« Waahinprbon« DaC.

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Sa Wthar parte of ilarica. for aoni# yea» J ^ve^^ean
ar»Sg«d In'a'ionographic attdy «f onr tig Bear^.^fg^ n-
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learn n-om ycnir ftacjst«^,- at-ttos iihari you war* out of
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monoffX^itJh of tha big £eiure Is nor n^iAl?
apTi^^lrr cc«nplet1on; iwt in tb^ case ^f (peTeral .epaciae
'Ihe'^teriftl availarle fdi^ study Is far too ^wjanty or .
iirperfVct to yi3W wfcte^antory rwultSa I bavo had. tha
priviia^a of OTardnlrr' ^>o«t'of tli» aknlle of big Baarfl
in the ▼arioiia »rnm&^ and prlrata coll actions x)f tha 'Jnltad
States a^ ^a.'>adtt,^ &M >«iTe>«oei7eil t*is graatast aesistanco
frcn scne of oiEf 8ports?T«r»-?tintarsa'

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from any part of tha t^itad Stataa, British flolwbia^.Yukw
Territory, or Alafjka, and wonld to winfm^ to loan tm th»
fiama for a a^crt i^f?ia/I w^b«»W r7-©atly appraclata the court ea]^

If you sand a^ spacimans, release ship by a^fresp,"
cl-Larres collect, addrassed U. ??• Biolarical Survay, Japartmant
af Arrrlciilttxa, Washington, D. \

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I5r. aeorge Shiras tells me tfmt vou have ., ,

killed ore or^two Beara on ^Admiralty Island and lossibly

'•in other parts of Alaaka. For soap years I have-on

''e»?»ged in a monographic study of onr hir. Bears., and nor
haVek work on the subject nearly ready for ^th«. press* .
There F^iU i-^n»iil hoBrever soma parplextng, questiorip ^^
'^4v, Veapaci to t>ie rarre ard cbara^^srs of »-oiie of tha -
8t>Msia«i Vifl t iw «OBt awious to «aa aa many slculls aa — ,
posalbi*' b^oVa sandinp: my book to jx^. I in't^kisr
the liberty to Wlta you in t?» hopa aitiier Ji^»* 7^^ ^ ,

■h^ a slEull or i*b iiHi<^ you wouM be wilUr^ ta lo«i r«e,
'<^Uat ^o.f «i^ Tmor ame>sa wbo has. I should >o (rlad .
t6 see -bkulli of ^a^ .^<^ V ^'iC- Beara. arlr^ly or ^oirp .
fr« a«y part of tlW United State.. British aolumbla, Yx*on

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January 16, 1914.

FrofasBor C. H. Gilbert , *, ,i* j

Stanford University. OallfomiA.

Dear lirofeae or Gilbert: ♦

Your letter addreaeed to oe at the Biological
Surr^ liaa only just reached rae, at the aLerenth hour. I
«n therefore irlring you a nJght lettar* whl«& I h«reb^"

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He lMi8 a Btrong peifaonalityf^ie aegraaBive.

iaaiateot. «4 pa«t ^*y- ^H^^FivJiw

\&»A auocefsfully, in imolly

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nSwTt^^aaf la he f«5?|ilar with modern^eun
nan likely to auoeeed in aeeuring f imneial hel]

,,^ ___„ looal pride and 8t5>port? He. ib

hard worter in tedinieal ecienoe, reooignixad
authority in asecial field. I am Me f rland and
want him to aucceed. I dsora ^sqpua and iZiapnan
ineoorparably beat qu&lif ied. but if nacesaarf
salary impossible, oelieve Oagood next best
qualiried. . »

It sasms to ma a pity for a man of Eveniarm'i
ag9 ard scientific trainiiig to attempt. to enter an entirely
neir fiald« le ot^ght, in agy opinion, to l)e at the head of
th3 Dapartjflerit of Fishes in the Hational Ifaseum, and if
this, cannot be hrou^t about, he ou^^t to Becar.e, jB^ome other
position alopg the llnps of his life wori?;. He is no longer
a youi:^; rnan as you well know, and is rather firmly rooted
in his wort and in his attit^:ide on varloqs subjects* It
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not fitted* Pex*Bonally I feel veiy batUy about the present
sitnation andm anrloiis to do anythiiig in my power to help
hin- in semiring a position f or wMqh he is really eqtilppede

\ In the case of the Acadafny I have given the natter
a good deal of thou^t for the past two (^* three years « but
have not been able to think of any well equipped pan other
than those I have already mentioned* In ccuttlng about for
a proper mm for the directorship of the Acad.amy two points
of view are possible: One, that if the Academy and its museom
are to fill the places they should fill In relation to Pacific
Coast science, the very best possible mail should be secvired,
and soiw means should be f oupd to raise a sufficient fund to
pay the ti^cessary salary* The other view is that the Academy
does not feel equal to the responsibility and that it most
therefore be content with a man who is willipg to accept
the salary it has decided to pay* It is of course for the
trustees of the Society to decide which course to adopt*

I thiric you are wrong in stating that the persons
approached in a tentative way rsfused to eiAertaln the
proposition* I feel quite sore that Osgood would accept,
and I ftilly believa that either Chapman or Bcmpus could be
had If sufficient inlucement were offered*

It is refreshing to leam that after all the

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friction and unpleaaanbneBs of the last im y«ar« no
opposition was encountered at the late annual meeting,
and that the new building for the Acadmy Is actually
on the way. Let us hope that this means a brighter jrospect
for science on the West Coast.

With best wishes and kindest regards.

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Thanks for your letters of the Mth and 15th. I

will look into Martindale's hook to see what he hm to say

ftboub Bears.

As to the Shlras Admiralty B*ar: The length of

the beast's hadcbone does not strike me as of Tory rwch
consequence coB|«rad with helgth and messlTenass. and seems
to hare little correlatidh with the si«e of the skull. It
Is hart to prore. but I am fully convineed that different
mpfaim of 3mrm of oioiitially the same sise hare skulls
«f t**y different sisesi and it is an indisputable fact
that the siso of the female bears no fixed relation to that
of the nsae. by which I mean tiiat in certain species in
whidx iMde stalls are of essentially the same si«e, the
female skulls differ enomouBly. In seme species there is
little difference between the males and famales, while in
othflrs the female is a plgny In comparison with the male.
Bert aU of this Is a digres«ioB. Vhen yon come to see the
skull of Shiraf'o Admiralty laland Bear alon? side of an
adult male mUsotm.* you wUl I am sure agree that they era
the most distinct species you ever saw. In fact they hare
▼ery little in ccmnon aside from the circumsUnce that both
are Bears.

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llelBon is mooh better, and unless he has a setback
will be out doors in a couple of days*

I am ibokisg forward to the Finacate trip with
genuine joy as I hare long wanted to make a field trip with
you, and shall particularly enjoy doing so in the desert
ragiona I want you to distinctly understand however that I
am physically on the downhill trail and do not for a moment
Intend to attempt such tramps and climbs as you take for
a bef ore-breakfast appetisei\

As erer yours »

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8 Vest 9th Street.

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Dear Govllla:

HareRTlth I wr- returning Steel's letter which you
cent me and which arrived this morning. I join you in
thanks to Heaven that he wrote you about his hellish scheme
before it was too late. You had better head the thii^ off
at onoe however^ as he may be writiqg a number of other
people. He means well but doesn't stop to consider
consequences. Tf he carried out his plan, he might in a few
years have an Orefron mixtxp equal to Bermuda.

We are having trouhle enoygh to hold with
reiuionabl* boiinus the well meanliTg f antics lixo ar|k!
to transplant birdir.and masraals trm ^^MdM viiar#1iiay
belong to places where they wauM do Jiffie harm either
by interbreeding with native foms and thereby destroyinjr
their zoological characters, or by preying upon the products
of man's industry and thus proving noxious enemies like the
House Rat and English Sparrow.

By all means point out to Steel the error of his
contemplated ways, rd dn <t ^ dp

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Mayor of New Orleans,

New Orleans t La.

Dear Sir:

The scheme for a Hew Orleans Exposition
outlined in your letter of the 14th instant is not
only novel, but strikes me as an illustration of the
very thing you are after — a Naw Idea. If your
eitisens succeed aocox^ing to the present plan
you will have an arposition whidi will not only
please and entertain but one which will teach many
important lessons in the economies of life. I wish
you all success.

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January 19, 1914a

Egbert

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Dear IJlr. Bagg:

Thanks for attendir^ to tha Insurance matter*
Eerewiih is my check for $30 in payment for the renewals •

If I had realized in time that the old insurance
expired so soon, I would have written you about a change
which ought to he made* Vty present office is in the
Northumberland Apartment House on New Hampshire Avenue, a
little more than a blodc above my residence* I have removed
to my office in the Northumberland about half of my
oolleetlin of Indian baskets, for the reason that this
apartment house is believed to be practically fire proof,
being of modem steel » concrete, and brick construction, and
standing alone with no other buildirf: near by* Uf house
therefore contains only about half of the collection which
under the policies you have just smt is Insured for $4000.
Could a clause be added to th^se policies statii^ that
about half of the coUeetlcr^ Is In each of the two places?

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Dear Sir:

Many tftanke foir your proqptndB* in senilng the
Grizzly Bear skull No. 89 ©ateoltgioal Coljection.
Princeton IfelverBity, Hm, akuU hae arrived, and
Is of particular Internet to me jtuit now in connection
with othurs frcm the general regiom

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ProfeBBor W. B. Scott,
Princeton, u. J.

Dear Prof eaaor Scott:

' •> '^-'i Many^ thanks for your courtesy in having the old

C-rizely skull No. 85 sent me so pro^tly. It io of particulai
Interest jtkst nwr In connection with a mail series of skulls

from the saosie general region.

A few days ago I saw a notice of your new hook. The
History of Land llaziBals in the TTestem Hanisphere. I
imnedlately ordered a copy, which arrived today. I thank the
good Lord that I have lived long enough to see this book.
It is what I have been hoping for for many years, but die-
paired of eeeii^, fearing it would not appear during ray
llf etima, I hare read your Prefwa and chapter on Clacalfl-
catlon, and have dipped In at varlouB other places, and
find It roost aatiefylng* It contains in convenient f onn
just the inf on»tion that I and doubtless hundreds of
others wish for bat have no practicahla means of securing.
The illustrations supplement the text tnost admirably ^ and
ft Is good to see that you have t?}cen the troiible to prepare
a glossary and aiiiple index.

All in allt I don't knew iHien I have opened a
book which has givan me so much pleasure and satisfaction —

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and speaking of opening books . it ie rare that a book opens
so nicely as this one. I congratulate you on havir^ written
• book which will be of such great service to W&ind. and
which will make it possible for people who are not speciallets
to obtain without dicing a general knorledge of the past
history of our American mamnala.

With best wishes,

?ery truly yours.

■B* *^t.^9?* 5* of the Preface the printer has rrlntad
oS^m. ^''°°**» Superlntendent^f the SSdin Z^ogical

r,o*^^2i^ 1^* ^^ Shows the dentition of a arlrzly --
2£* or » Bla^ Bear^as stated in the legend. ^

r*! if^2^* SlTJagua is given as "now extending to

pSlfSSft •.JV5^'**i% Sanos does not now inhabit
'^aiiromia, and I did not know that it ever did. I
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JiKlg* Carroll Swlgg.
DKjrton, ^io.

Ify doar Judge Spring:

Your Isttar of Urn 15th InBtant came iuly. and tha
two skullB of your Polar Baars, maU and fanoala. arrlred
yaprberday in axeellenb condition. I will azmlr.e than
eritieally in a few days in conjiariBCtn with sknlls in tha
Hatioml Collection. If either of than preaente any charactera
of unufltad iinportance, I will enter it in the naaeraii eatalogaa
aa a dortafcion from you. If not, I will return both to you a

little later.

' Aa to your conteoplatad hunting trip to Alaaka: Thera

ia plenty of good hunting up there, Iqt before wrltii^g at length
I should like to knoir about ihat kinds of 9^^ 7^^ wl^ ^o- kill.
axid wherther you are goii^ to take time to go fart&er into the
interior or to sane point within a reasonable distance of the
eoast« Probably the liidile and Upper Stikine region affoxtUi
the largest rariety of game — Oriszly and Black Bears, Caribou,
Sheep, Goats, and Moose*

If you are particularly anrious to kill some of the
hqge Brown Bears, probably %b Alaska Peninsula is th# surest
place to gOt bat th% only other game there is a Caribou*
Groats inhabit the mountains close to the inside passage, and
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southeast side)* But hunting in the Yakutat Bay region is
mighty hard work, and it takes a good deed of time to yield
mudi meat*

If on the other hand« you are not anzio\is to kill
mnch game, but are ambitious to secure a few specimens of
Bears which are likely to prore of great scientific interest
(probably new species), you would do still better to make your
camp at the head of lituya Bay, or if you want to go so far as
Bering Sea and have time for such a trip, important discoTeries
await you on Nunivak Island*

There are also great himting grounds in British
Columbia and in Yukon Territory. If you will give me some
idea as to your leanings and mbitions in this matter, I will
try to furnish a little more definite inf orrmtion«

Thankir^ you for sending the Polar Bear skulls,

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The two Pol«r Bear skullB belonging to Judge

Carroll Spri«5 of Dayton. Obio. and aent me by you at Ma
reqa«ri. hare arrived safely, for which I -m obliged.

Beepectfullyt

January 20. 1914,

Dear Mr. Kennan:

Glad to hear from you and to
know that you and Mra. Kannan will
call on lira. Harrlinan early in
February. I hare written her to that

effect by tM**™*^!*

With beat wishea to you both,

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Daar Sir:

Ytpxr lattar of tha 19th inatant earaa

jaatarday, and tha tliraa doemanta on tha aubjaai
of ?Hir-8aala arrirad thia momiqg« In looking th6m
oTor I do not find tha laad pancil rmAm to whieh
yaa raf ar, but T aeo so raaaon why T ahould aak for
anothar haarii« bafora your rfoBBiittaa.

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Field ItoBeum of Natural Hlstoryt
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Dear Osgood:

A short time ago Shiras presented to the Biological

Survey the roraaAable skull of a huge Bear nhich his son
killed on Admiralty Islaiid last fall» and which you have
already seen. It is a splendid species, and I am ahottt to

describe it.

Shiras tells me that ha left the fore feet and
cl«ra and also the scalp with yon to have prepared for him.
These I m most anxious to see, but Shiras is leavl^ tonight
or tomorrow for Florida and Banama and therefore has no time
to trrlte, so he has asked me to drop you a line asking you
to forward this material to the Biological Siarvey so that I
may examine it. I idJI then return the same to you to have
prepared in aceordance with the under standiiig you have with
Shiras. If you will send them by express, cliaxiges collectt
addressed to the Biological Survey, I shall be vary greatly
obliged.

It seems there are two species of big Bears on
Admiralty Island j^mi as there are on the Sitka Islands, on
Kenai Peninsula, on Alaska Peninsula, and in mai^ plases on
the maixilaiid« It is certainly most extraordinary.

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How are you anyway? And how are affairs progressing?
Are you goii^ back to South America this winter? We are
havipg a very mild and open winter with no snow thus far.
▼e are also having an automobile show at the present time,
but I am sure that the one you are goir^ to have in Chicago
will be much laxiger and more interesting.

With best wishes.

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Chevrolet Motor Co. Plant ITo, 2,

bit, Michigan*

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monihi^and I have not seen it for more than four montha*
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Dear G^rinnoll:

then you were her© the other day you told me,

if I rementoer correctly, that a Gri««ly had been killed
In Yelloirstone Park last aunmer or fall. K you have
anv definite information about this Bear, I should ba
greatly obliged for the facta, particularly the d^a of
killing, and whether or not it vaa killed by aoldiwrs.

Regretting that you could not hsre bean with
U0 loiter, and with love to lira. Orinnell.

Aa ever youra.

Dr. George Bird Orinnell,

236 Bast 15th Street,
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iJhat IB your objection to aending ^^wftj

for money reqeiyed by you li? p«3n»nt.for r««pal of

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reee^yed and repeat fag jy reque^^^ 5^ tp data you,;,
haye not been heard frcnu I cannot, bal ley e t^i ycra.

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t9 saol.a repaitt foEr^monay eerxt you for the purchase
g( |i book? On Deceniber S I wrote you for a copy of
Anarioan.nUc Chna fiuntiog^ 19Qlt Book of the Boone &
Qrockft^ Qlubtfuodaakadyou to send me a receipt* Tha;l
you racairad and caahad toy ehadc is obTiooa from the
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So reeaipi baring reached ma» I wrote you again
on Janoary 6 asking if you would kindly aeni me the
receipt in quMtioUt but up to the present date no receipt
has lunriTod* I am reluctant to balioTe that you intend
the discourtesy iinpliedt and trust that you will still be
willing to aend the needed receipt*

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San Prancisco.

Dear Sir:

fhat is your objection to sanding a receipt

for money received ^ 7^ in vm^ ^^^ ^'^^'^ ^^

subscription? On December 16 I sMt you a check of
$1 in ren^ral of my subscription for the year 1914.
^ requested that a receipt be sent me. The receipt
failing to appear, I wrote again on J^uaiy 6. calling
your attention to the fact that no receipt had been
received and repeating my^request. Up to date you
haye not been heani .from, f cannot believe that you
intend such a discourtesy as this would^ imply,.

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•ince whidi I bwre be«n «nEio\i»ly, hppipg far •. oall frcm
vour brother, Tsut up to 4>he praami mcmant ha lias not appaarai

it ms oartaialy dolightful to loam that tho
hoedmaf olwtion paasod off iritlioitt opposition, and that th«
airard for the net buUding Kac^Afltuiaiy boon mado. It wi 11
ba mi^ty good nava to haw that ground haa boon broken.

Iha nam you give me aa to the raina ia moat
eneouri«ing. aM I troat t}»t proapeets at ]>oa Rioa continue

of the beat*

I congratulate you on the purehaae of the SEBenoBi
effi colleetion* This on top of your ovn muet roake a wonderfui

eolleetion.

Aa to the A.O.U. meeting of 1915: There appears
to be no oppoaitlon to holding the meeting in San francieco,
and the date ia likely to be early in May, or at leaat aomo

time durii^ Uay. It Is a» yet tco dsrly to talk alxmt plaee
of meeting, but I aaauna that a one QUIET place aay be had,
the nonber of peraona preaent ia not likely to be ao laiiga

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Ijcpoeition literature strikes me as a godd niOTS^'^ She iiay
of keepixs up iubei*est Imd 'shcirli)^ wh&t is ^oim on«

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i?.th iMtaitt I am ©lai to know that you Tiava gona 1>o
Califc.rr.ia for thawintar,. ^aii^.f Particularly Pl^ased that
you havo daoidad to s't^y till s^w.ar. and that you will giva-
U8 a call at Lagunitaa. T axpe<* to Isava hara -^ith w
f«nil7 as aarly aa pra^^icakla in May. and to motor acroaa
to oaifomia by ^7 of Kaw M«dco, northam Arizona, and tha
Mohava Desart, reaching San l^ranciaco ahotit tha first of Juna.

J should like to sea the basketis you haYa just
sacurarf from llisa Nicholson. Bvidantly thay are choice pieces.

Now as to the Baars: Since writing you IiaTe
douhtless received nrr letter of January 6, addrssead to you
at LaJcota Hotel. <Mcv:o, in wT^ich I stated "that your fanale
appeared to ha ^gliaaonrr. than tha sfeiil cane h«* from tha
cleaner, I laade a more critical coriparison, and fbund tliat it
is beyond question phaeonvx. ??faoga range is thus aictended a
long distance to the southward. It i« a widely different
species from the Stikine 9rizzly. The sk\ai of this f ffluald
is of so much scientific value tl-at it would be a dreadful
thir^ to have it moimted in a skin or rug. I am going to make

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bold tharaf ora to ask if you will not let me keep it in our
Kational Collection and eubatitute therefor one of Fraser's
dutmy skullfl , which will be even better than the original
for tha purpose iritaadad,. as the,.-teath will not crack and go
to pieces. If you arawillii^.t* consent to this substitution,
kinlly let me know whether you are going to have the head mounted

with the taotth open or closed.

Both iNnmit -nha-aoTnTK ■ ajTd the Stikine species are true

Sri £zli 98, not Brown Bearc.

The inf orrAtion you obtained from a trccpper and
Irdians on the headwaters of Ihlte River to the effect that
f anala Qritzliea normally bava cubs not oftener than once in
two years agrees witii the -t eat, imogy „of Indiana and hunters in
nearly all parts of the couatry..,and may be accepted as a fact.

I trust that your car has arrived ere this so that
you my be enjoyii« the splendid roads and delist ful winter
climate of Southern Calif omia.

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"•^ n«Si?j5rioiu:, ^ TroHt Co.

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Dear Sir:

Yovir monorandum dated January 24. stating tliat

„y rent account appears to be in arrears, haa arrived thia

morning.

About a monttfago I telephoned your office and

aaked for you. You were out, but the person who answered
the phone said he would deliver the message. I told him
that your bills almost always reached me the a^xlj. part of
the month instead of the la^tw part of the preceding
month -in other words, that they did not reach me untU
after ary account for the month had bean sent in to the
Smithsonian for payment, thus necessitating either a supple-
mentary sending, which is very annoying, or the holding over
of your bill until the end of the month. I asked him if he
could not make a special effort to send me the January bill
at once so that it would reach me in time to b* transmitted

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with the account which I would turn in on the following day*
He agreed to do this, but the bill did not arrive. This is
the explanation of the non-payment of your bill for January.

In January a year ago (January 25^ 1913) I wrote
you concerning thifl same matter, stating:

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•I shall be obliged if in future you will kindly
sand the monthly bill for rental a few days before the beginnii^;
of the month, so that I may include it with the bills trans-
mitted for payment to the Smithsonian at the end of each
month. Usxially it reaches me too late for this."

All I can do is to repeat this request.

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Dear Mr. Bagg:

Yours of the atth instant received, together
with amended policies respecting the insurance of my
collection of Indian baskets. This is correct, and
I an. greatly obliged to you for the iroublo you have
taken in straif^htenirg it out.

With best wiflJws.

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71 Broadway, ^.^

Now York City.

My dear Sir:

7ery many thanke for your courtesy in send i rig

m« a copy of your little booklet entitled Storiei of

Sreat Pennaylmnia Hunters. It arrived tliie tioming.

and I have already read a considerable part of it,

and with much interest. The definite data you have

brought together concerning late killing* of hig game

animals now nearly or quite extinct in Pennsylwnia are

to me of even greater importance than your excellent

sketches of the old hunters, fihich. also appeal to me

strongly. So in publishing this material you have done a

good service to the nabursJist as well as the historian.

Your description of the Brown or Red Bear excites
my curiosity. If the animal is not the brown phase of
the Black Bear, it is certainly an important discovery.
An examination of the skull would settle the matter pronjtl;

With many thanks for the booklet,

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Kluane, - , '

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Dear Sir:

In a recent note in Outdoor Life you are mentioned as

a hunter in the KLuajie Lake region. Have you any ekulla of
Grizzly Beam from this region?

For many years I have bean studying the big Bears of
America, and ara now abovrt to publish a work on the subject. I
have a number of skulls from the Stikine region, and two of another
species from Caldem Creek, a tributary of White River, but, none
at all from the Kluane Lake country. If you can secure for me
some skulls of Grizzlies, I shall be glad to take all you can
get, and will pay for the same frcm $2 to $10 each, according to
sax, age, and condition. The skulls need not be cleaned. It is
enou^ to cut off the thick flesh including the tongue and let
the skull dr/, after which it may be sent either by aacprees or
parcel post, whichever is most convenient for you. In case you
seni by parcel post, I will of course add the postage to the
payment for the skulls. Packages sent by express should be shipped,
charges collect, addressed U. S. Biological Survey, Department of

igricult'ire, Washington, /D.C.

Each skull should be labeled with a tag stating the sex,
the locality where killed, the date, and your own name.

In case you have any skulls on hand or are able to

sec-ore some when the Bears first ccme out in early spring, please
serid as soon as possible without waitiiip to accuiiulate a number.

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? >' > Hei-with I iucLoM ay aacpanae acco\ait for
January wiounting to $87.97, salary youchar. for Hoi en
^OTOT, HlO,- btU fw».ja«oa H. Kent .tor jhotcgnqphlug
mfti^l pletnrea, $22.50, and office^^ent bills tor
Jarwary $50.65, ax^ Febmary $50.95, i^Ll of which I shall
be obliged if yoti will kiaily jay from tae Harriaaui Fund.

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but as there -Is no other business Jbo caU.rae to the city
at thi« tine. I feel that' I had better 8ti<^ io njjr woA here.

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■ a ifmar of ybare . ind wiiafe to: ••«u»» ■«« nwch inf oniAti a
possible. Ill €hi8 oonnacUon it is an iirtaresting fact
that t»ro wholly diBtiKct species of .ari««ly occor within the
liijlts of the Park. I wonder if any. one on the eround has
ever noticed any diffdrenees In th^ir ai.foaranc^ or ranges.

?ery trvly youirs.

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Thlur^a'^f 0r"yiWr leiiier ef " yaateiday - inclosiig ?»«

bills. The i-^t bill* for-Ja,5«ary ankTobrjary X wm v^.-t
tranaridttli:^ to the SmitTisoniaii f or paymKit. -?, - f;. :.:.

'' Bie telephone btU for- KoTonber, aroeiaitinB- to

11.40, 1 paid at the end of the month, and too^t a racei|ffc
for same fran opemtor, this receipt Jmm ^^b^-rwchar Ho. 12
in ay loveaabar account, and laay bo seen at airy time in the
offitse of Mr. Y. 'I. Adaa», Accountant <or the 8ad thsonian.
' I am (^ ad to know that in fttt«re.the rent billa..
will be sent ma two or three days before the end of the month
•0 that th«t/ may go in Tffitb. my ragul** account.

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Clifford Little, Esq.
Victoria, B.O.

Sir:

A year or two ago I wrote you asking if you
had any skulls of Grizzly Bears which you wo^old loan or
sell, but you were away on a hunt in the north. I am now
trying hard to finish ar/ book on the big Bears, a«i am still
in need of skulls for sti;dy. Skulls of arizzlies of both^
sexes from all parts of their range (provided each skull is
labeled for locality) I should be glad to purchase or borrow.
Li the latter case I would of course pay charges both mys.

Ihlle skulls are desiral-le from all localities.
nevertheless there are a few places from ifei* they are particu-
larly needed, as for instance the coast region of British
Columbia, the coast-^agtcn between Icy Strait and Yakutat Bay.
Lynn Canal and the Stikine-Cassiar region, flinchinbrook Island
to Prince WilUm Sound, and all points in the interior of
British Columbia. ruJcon.- and Alaska. If you have aiy skulls
from any of these region^ or know a..y one who has. I should
he greatly obliged if you wUl kindly let me know.

Do you happen to know ai^ reliable hunter i^» Ib
familiar with the coast r^ion of British Columbia^hom I
conoid employ for a cwpla of months to hunt coast Bears?
Ha sho-ad be on the ground v:hen the Bears first cone out in

early spring.

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The scanty material in cur National Qolleotion
indicates that t^wro widely different species of big Bears
inhabit the copfrt ^strip of British Columbia — a big Brown
Bear ranging south fron Lynn Canal and the Lower Stikine,
and a Grizzly ranging northerly from Howe Sound.

Besides all these I should be glai to purchase
skulls of adult male Bears frcm Admiralty Islands I should
be glad to pay from $2 to $10 each for sb.ilXs of big Bears
according to sex, age, and condition, aiid will pay $10 each
for skulls of adult males in fairly good condition, provided
of course each skiJ.1 is labeled with the locality where
killed. Specimens should be sent by express, charges collect,
addressed U. S# Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C.

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T^, for your l.Uer «t tl^» 2*^ l""^"*

juBt rec.lv«i. 1 ™. propar- for th» .-1 n« that
yoa- idndraty I»l«d rtull. ^ !>"" "■<"""«••* *" "^°-
Hu«lrea. of .VulU of big B«r. iWch would b. of in-
,.tl«U. V.1U. to our »»eu» «•, tta- bori- in rugi.
„d the .or.t of it le ttat n«ny bo hurlrf r^»ant

Bpdcids new extinct.

But donH thirJc I am eearchir^ for unusual or

fra^ skulls. Hiat I m hvxAim ^or is nm^ sIculLi,
particularly those of adult aiiiiaals. ^

I am oblissd for your kiixl offer to let me see
specimen, you m^ sec-ore d.u-ir« the coming spring on your
' expected hunt on Admiralty and Baranof Islards. 1 cannot
yet say ^hen my hook will go to press, hut it is a large
work and its printing will occupy some time. I liqpe to
put it fn the ha«is of the printer hefore returning to my
sunmer home in California nart May.

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Dr« David B* Iheelor,

519 Franklin Straet,

Buffalo, N.Y.

Ify dear Sir:

Tdiir box of Bp^clmens from the Barren Grounds with

aocociparyiiig letter reached the Biological Survey a long time

ago, but owing to my absence in Oalif ornia and Freble^s absence

in the far north, it was sidetracked and has only recently come

to the front* Preble has identified the specimenfi with sczne

t
oare and has prepared a list of the sajme with localities. Two

copies of this list are inclosed herewith, the one on white

paper for you to keep, the other one to be returned to us with

ax^r corrections you may detect as to dates or other matters •

It was migity good of you to take the trouble to prepare

and pack out so many specimens in the face of the difficulties

of transportation you mtust have encountered, and we are greatly

obliged to you therefor* The skins and skulls, while not ranking

very hi^ in quality, are nevertheless sufficient for the

dsteraination of the species, which is the main poinfr, and since

they were collected mainly in localities previously unrepresented

they afford positive records whidi we are very glad to possess*

If , as I hope, you are going to publish an account of your trips

to the Barren (Grounds, you wiU be safe in using Preble^s

identifications.

Again thankii« you for your contribution to our
knowledge of the foona of the Barren Grounds, and trusting you
will pardon my long delay in writing,

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Sear Dr. Lucas:

It is good to see your Iwid-
writirw again, and to kr.o*r that you are
oack at the M-JBSura, although I a-n sorry

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Tou of course find a great
ftccurmilation of work. Don*t let it get-
away with you, hut ranaomber tlmt a
hundred years hence it wont naake much
difference how much we do on a particular
dav. So save yourself until your strength
has fully ret^Jirrxed*

With best wishes and kind

regards to you all.

As ever yoiirs^

Dr.

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Director, Arnerioan Museum of
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New York Ci -y,

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Do you knoir ai^hing about a "book by one
Benj« Bilsooi, entitled The Trials and Toils of Some
Trappers and Traders during an expedition to the Rocky
Hoim tains « Nevr Mexico, and Oaliforniat published in
Heir York, 1847?

•ind have you lieen the nearly issued History of
Wyoming and the Flar West by Dr. C» &• Coutant. recently
offered for sale by the Hudson Book Co? If so, does it
seem to' be worth havipg? I have not yet seen it*

HopiiTg you will have a good time at the Boone
and Crockett Dinner tonight.

As ever yours.

Mr. Clmrles Slieldon^

8 West 9th Street,

New Tork City,

The Honorable

, Franklin K. Lane , .

Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, D.0«

Dear Sir:

If you have them to spare, I should be
greatly obliged for three copies each of the
Annual Reports of the Superintendents of the several
National Parks for the year 1913.

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Kr. C. C. Tegathoff,
4E75 FlfQi Avenue,

lev Tone City.

Bear lb*. Tegethoff :

last Saturday I happened to mee* Mr. Walcott,
azid he told ne that Irs. Harriaan had made Iniuiry with
reepect to the whereabouts of the original manuscript of
the narrative volvmes of the Harrimm-Uaska liq^edition
with a view to the possible rajniblication of this matter.

lot 1>eii^ able to ramentoer the disposition of
original nmnascript, I mads a prelindnary searaii in nqr
attic, where a mmber of packages of old manuscript arid
papers have been stowed «ray for sflMS years. I did not find
it, but it does nofc follow from this that *t may not be bars,
as I did not complete r^a^ search. Before renawing it however.
It might aaretima if I know just wbet lira. Harrimaii hae in
mini. I do nofc want to trouble her to writs but shall ba
obliged if you will kindly let ma know. If a republication
of the natter is contaufilated in whole or in part, the taact
of the book itself would be far batter copy for the printer
tjaan the original marwaeript,

I think liAve -Jie original drawings of the
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difficulty*

If you will kindly let ma kno* |fra^ Barrimaa^B
wishas in the mattar^ I will* giva it inmedlate attantioni
and if tiiara is ajt^ raaaon why tha original nuuniacript
should ba foiifdt I will ccntintid tha aaarch far enor^ to
naka aura aithar tfakt it ia or that it is not in v^
poafaM^qcu

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Ifr. S. A. Problo of tb© BlologieaiL Sunroj tolls mo

that lart fall you riiovod him tha akin of a Qriasly Bear
frco tho Bolla Coola Rtrar, which you socurid sotof^ yoara
•go. Ho ihinka you nd^t be aUo either io aocure oJrallo
for ae or to put me into cooimnication with peraona ^o

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I am juBt noa irying to conqplate for tha praas a

work on tha big Boara of imariaa on which I hava been en^gad
for a nwmbar of ysara^ In tha cooraa of thia work I hava
baan and atill am sariotialy porplaxad booauaa of tha acarcity
of apaeimona, particidarly adolt akulla. I «i tharafora
anxiow to bi;^ or borrow as cmny akulla as poasibla of Ghrissly
Baan from all parta of Britiah Colimbia, Tukon Tairitory, and
SB Alaafca, and am willing to pay good prlcaa for tuia arnna*

I hara tha aicuU of an^Mlult mala from Paobarton
Laka. and of a young Baar from tha Balla Ooola which appaara
to ba tha aama^ but I haro not baan abla to aacura a aingla
adult laala or fonada from tha antira eoaat raglon of Britiidi
Colvubia from Howe Sound northreotarly to the Stikiba. Do
aou know of the exiatmoe of a^iy akulla from thia region.

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and if not, do you know of angr good rallabla huntar who would
ba likaly to procura apaeimana if I hlrad him for a coiqpla of
montha in tha aarly apring baginniiig at tha tlma whan tha
baara firat coma outf In addl^^oo to tha Wiitlj juat
mantionad from aoutfawaatam British Colxnibia, thara appaara
to ba (judging from tha youqg). an antiraly diffarant apaciaa
on tha nortfaaaatam coast in tha lowar Mm and lowar Skaana
coontry. Bat of tfaaaa apaciaa war haya no adcilt akulla* .

-iV 8knlla.ara naadad alao from all pointa in tha
intarlor indndins tha taountalna aiid Tallaya of axtrana
aaatarn British Columbia and ad japant parta of Alberta*

for akulla of Qriaaliaa labalad for locality I am
gilad to pay from |2 to #10 aach, accoDling to aga, aax, and
condition «-alwaya paying $10 i^iaca for akuUs o^ adult rnalaa
which ara not badly injurad* In caaa you are abla to obtain
any akulla for ma, kindly hare tha aona ahippad by axprasat
chaxgaa collect, addraaaad U* 8. Biological Sjurvay^ Bepartoient
of Agriculture, Waahi^gton, D*C» Bach akull should bear a
tag giTing the locality, aaz when poBitiVjaly knoan, and name
of c«^dctor«

fruatiz^ that you wm^ be able to help me in thia
matter, and that you will pardon uqr liberty in writing you,
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Kelson told ne the othsr day that you i»*ift«d to
ler the big «le Orlasly kiUed by you last
near laMoM Uit^ iM car i» not ti»e sams a. tha
big arisaly kiUod by Br. Rlchaiiisan on or near nappan
Creek several years ago. It is tiie s«s. and the old f aaale

)le got is the sanie as several fanaaes we havs froa

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the upper Stikine region* '^'^^

Tour skull is of speoial interest because it is

the only perfect male I have this far seen, and ahors
adoirably i*he clvuracters that disting-oish the species —
particularly the hij^ frontal region rising abruptly froa

the mojizld*

Preble tells me that the atODsachs of tliese Bears

were fall of crosbarries a.id huckleberries, and he tJiiiike
that peAaps yours ccitained something else alao. At all .
events, -le says you sav it digging out a Woodchuck. kn^
infoTJSition you ca«i give me on Its food habits will os
tbankf ally received and duly credited.

Vith best vishas,

Tery truly yours.

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ffiilef Oame Warden.

Vancouver, B.C. '

Hr dear Sir:

^Ing to the continued difficulty In aecurii^
skulls of OrisBly Bears from various parts of British
Oolunbia, I have not yet sent ay' Bear book to press, but
am expectir^g to do so in the spring. Meanrhile I am wondering
if you can help ma In ascuring any more akulle. I am aniio.i8
to purchasa as mx^ Sriasly akuljs as possible from any part
of Britiah Colunbia or adjacent territory, and especially
froB the coast region from Howe Sound northwesterly to the
extrane northwestern comer of the Province. Do you know
any one i*o hae any akulls from thia region, or in fact froa
any part of BritiA Coluabia, or do you kno» ai^ reliable
hunter whom I could aaploy for a month or two in earlj
spring whan the Bears first coma out sho would be likely
to secure specimens?

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Fabrtaury 2, 1914,

Dr.

'gSSrlStS^ent. Hatioml Xoological Pw*.
Washington, «••*•

Dear Dr. Baker:

If not too nnicii trouble, will jou kindly

aend m8 a meoorandir. as to tHa baby taart bom in
thd Zoo the prasant winter.

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San firancisco.

Dear Kr. Oolby:

Thanks for your letter of January 26, indosing
a letter from Mn. Reediqg dt)oitt her basket collection.
The photdg;n^ alao has this moment cqne to hand^ thot^
ecneriiai damaged by the breaking of the tuba in the mail*
It ahovs hoareTsr what ai^t be inferred from the letter,
^jthat nearly all the baekats were made in the ao-called
Pit RiYar country* The collection contains many beautiful
places t l^nxt I doubt Tery much if it will brii^ ar^i^ii^
like the prica she places upon it* However I will write
■rs.^ Reading and tell her what museums might purchase a
coUaction of this kind.

With bast wishes,

Tery truly yours.

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Mrs. R. L. Reading,

^^'^ S;ddii«. Oalifomia.

Tour latter of January 34 and acconpaiiyiog
lixotograph. addresaad to th.,8ior,* dub. hare been fonrarded
to ma by lir. «n. B. Colby, tha Club' a a*:ratary. Tha
photograph indicate, that tha gpraat balk of your collect ion
ie made v^ of Tahna, Pit m^f . and Hat Creak piecea. and
,^ of th« are very beautiful. »xt I fear I cannot help
you uEteh in the way of diapoairg of the coUection. for aa
you know there lia* not IMTnndi demand for Va«ket« during
he past alx or el^t yeara. Beaidea, you are aaking a pretty

stiff price.

I do not kna» of any primte collector who would

be likely to purchase aurfi a collection. There aye howoTer

several museiMS which buy baskets when they hare money

avaiUUe to pay for them. These muaeuma are the Inarican

■usevm of latural His-or/, Hew Tork City, Brooklyn Inst>ituT>a

of irts and Sciances, Brooklyn, Peabody Muoffra of Harvard.

Cstabridge, Ifaas., Pi jld Ir mo 'at>rral History. Chicsgo,

Oamagie Museam, PittsbuzT^, Ithnolocloal Mmseum of tha

Ifaiveraity of California, Affiliated Colleges, Sar Praoeisco,

and the U. S. MatioeMl Ifuaeun. Ya8hi>x;tcn, D.O. The latter

however would hardly be able to purchase such a collection.

8evez*al otnar vaiaabla collecoions have been offered

lira. R. L. Readir^ #g

for sals during the past year or two, but I am not aware
that ary of them have been sold.

If you have not disposed of these baskets when
I an in California next spring or suanwr, I shall be glad
c the privil^gs of looking at them. Ify own collection
contains about lOQO pieces, most of whidi were purchased
by me fr<jn the Vidians who xmim them in variovM parts of
California.

Tery -cruly yours.

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Ir. J. D. Ulan. .. ^ . ^
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Ify dear Sir:

A tm days ago I returned to you Ijy wqprass
prepaid the two bear tkins which you kindly aent me boom
tiae ago at the request of Ifr. Homer Sargent, irtio killed
the Bear* on a tributary of Ihite Hirer in Tukon Territory

last Soptember.

The skolls I hare retained. The larger Mie (No. 2)
was presented to us by Kr. Sazgsnt. The female (Ho.l) ie
•xtrcMly iogportant oviqg to the fact tluit it balOQgpB to a
northom 8pacios« sbAftfiDSCZt not proTioualy knovn to oomo
wcrpAiWB near so far soutlu I haTO writtoa lb*. Sargonb f.t
Pasadena aakii^ him if ha will allow me to substitute one
of Araser^s dmqr skulls for this fanalea If he is willi^
to do thiSt I will purchase and srad you the duosBf skull so
that it may be mounted in the mg«

Hare you ia your possession any skulls of Orizidy
Bears from aqr part of the west« or do rcti kngw of any c^^^e
who has? I am most anzioxas to see as mrn^ skulls as possible
before sending mf book to press « aril would like to borroir or
purchase at a good price erery Oriszly skull that I can get
hold of •

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lire Homer E* Sargent,
The Huntingtont

Pasadena* Californiao

Bear TITo Sargent:

A few days ago I shipped by express prepaid^,
addrfAsed to Jo D, lllent Mandan, N.D^ your two ffrizzly Bear
Bk»s, male and female , frcm Caldam Craek, but retained
Vrth of tho skullso is I wrote you a feir days ago, I have
takan the liberty to hold your faoiala skull until I hear
from yo»i» hoping that you will let me s^abstituta therefor
one of Frasar^s dumc^ skullso

It is ancouragi>)g to loam frcm the newspapers
that the fearful storms you have been having in Southern
California have been succeeded by fine waathero I fear
howoTor that the roads have suffered smny washouts, and
motoring will hare its difficulties for some time to come

Vith best wishes.

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Editor- Rod and Gun in Canada,

Woodstock, Ontario, Oanadac

My daaur Sir;

Not having heard from you in reply to ny latter
of December 30, I infer that you have not been able to
secure the names and addresses of ar^ persons who ha?e
knowledge of the alleged attacks of f elves i5)on men durii^g
the early part of the winter^

In a previous COTimmication you stated: "A well
authenticated Instance of this occurred only the other day
at the Soo, and althoi:igh the winter is still young* these
brutes have been responsible for 4 tragedy In the voods of
northern Quebeco* Can you give me any clues whldi will
enable me to attempt to run these cases down?

The recent Minnesota case, concerning which you were
kind enough to send me a clippingt is stated by Minnesota
pavers and letters to have been a fake^ In fact one
Minnesota paper offers a reward of $100 to any cm irtio
wi..l produce evid^ice showing that Wolves have attacked a
hujian being in Minnesota in recent yearso

Very truly yours*

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Revereiid Hp Eo Norrls,
Boxbiry, Pa*

Dear Sir?

Your letter of January 34,
Inclosii^ photo of yourself and stating
that you are a cousin of tmr wife, came
duly. As we do not know you, we shall
be glad if you find it convenient to
call the next tima you are in this city,
Our house is Hoo 1919 - 16th Street.

Very truly yours.

jBmmmmb^ «^

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PS. I am takii^ the liberty to inclose a note on Grizzly Baars^
which you nay be willing to publish in your neit issusc

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Suparlntandant, national Zoological Park^

Yaahington, D.O.

Dear Dr. Baker: '

Hangr tharks for jovar lattar of tha 5th
inatantt giyl^gme the information I want ad with r aspect
to tha birjt)i of bear cubs last month. What a pity it
is that these ursine mothers eat up their osn babies.

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T>

Sear ?rof«8Bor Terrlll:

Since the receipt of your letter of January 28
I have coBBKiiicatad with Mr. Howard ClaA, the Smlthaonlan
editor, with respect to the prohahle date .f appearanc. -^
of your Starfish Tolune, but have not been able to secure
ai7 definite inf ormaUoBbf^ter than that the wo A ia
in tha hMMte of ^e prittt^w. It" aiwa^e takes a long time
for a publisher to print, and biM afine book. parti<jujarly
where there are namerous plates and where only the best
mechanical execution Is emec^ed. I trust howarer "that

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your report on West India Starfishes will not be pub!
until after the Alaska Starfish Tolnae is actually out

▼ery truly yours t

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New Haren, Qcim.

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The last namber of Huant raaehad ma in
du6 eonraa ani is a T)eanty« Iha illu8tx%%l€Cfl ar* ^
aoperbt axid haTo been aozBirad ^ many frioui aa

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in behalf of «h« Blol^ioal ivrray^ tt la ^Md to kno»
that 0«pl«7 iBQiTt ; Jr- la Q0Qt««Xfitlng iuwttiir Imntiic
tHp 4» the north, «|i batter, iitJU^that he thfatajtf:

goii^t ln1».»«l«l*lfiflL,<?«4^W**»R. M •.career. Jhenhe
^m^: n«t Saturia^i 1- wbtOl be y«y «^el to aef hia an
Bh«w hia ft lot ef «nr .api^rija,. fele«B ai^ I v|U leok
eat for hJa in the Iweia. .

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Bat tha beat nevf ef all la that Ira. Sheldon
ia^gettifls «■ eo tUktlj, Ae riainli^ two weaka will
run off Tei7 ragpidly, I m aora.

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uTiTod. I m gl«i to knov i*ii*-yott haw ff<w4 laf orm^la
M to tho klUii« of a Pwathor in PonMyliwai* ••. Ut« «■
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1890. iik joa ■lira ttaMl ^lia ia porf ooily vrOionUet

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wuB mountod with tho *aU^ iaaiAo, 4o. yoa lam irtiothor tha
IMT ia Motofllj maqA9l, or aholihar tho t!ai»«npiot moom
moroly tl»t it aaa;»qia*o4 aa ,a r^(|^

ft>. Oorrti^S. Iill«r« Oorator at Imolo in tho
Hatifloa loaoiM, toU ao haf «ra loaTing tho city [ho ia now
atevi for a aoi^o of wodka] Ihat ha had cponod a oorr«*
ponteM in tha hqpo of aooarii« tho opoeiMn or tho, loan
of it for tho Satioul Hnaopi OdUostion. Aa vo ara hoth
intoreatod Sn tha prwparvatian of thia tort of aatorial in
our Halleml lnaoai« I taka tho llborty to «7 that I would
ho glad to pay a fkfjr prioo f cr tha okln and oknll for Iba
■aaon. Or, if tho omar ia ia»ilUi« to pari with it, wo
dionld ho glad to hvrow it for a abort tiao, and will
rotom praqptly m^ lavtmB efaa^B** ^>^^ «f ■ «' ««>«••
0oaU yott half «a la thia aiAtor, or would you prwfar that

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wo corroapood diroot with tha j«ner?

tUTorttBatVl^ I cannot at the aomant put raj
haul on tht^raocrt of tho laat actual killing of a Paathar
In tho Jdlrotsiaoka, hot in Ii«UBt 19(0 ^oo waa aoan in tho
Mironiadca hy too nan. Dr. 0. K. Tan tocW>«» and J. B.
■om^i I^toro fi« hpth «m^i5l*i»wi^^
insidwt woro pnbliahod ky flarry Badford in Hold k Streoa

of Doaort»orM«.^;'v'

' =^ 4fllo^bibaina of li^*»l andWaat Tlrginia
Poathoro 1^oar>:«o har* «i^ad uobil quit* rooenUy, and
orWllOir 1 m. ky aOriMiBnii Ctttain.tlMtt thoy are •ntlraly
extihot. b laee'-^tO tiWRar reportad ihoa aa not rare ia
tho BOCBtaiba of airw*4 County, llarylanl, and in 1901
Prod 1. Ihi^ar of Oridand. Ifi. wroto no that thoy then
ooonrrod on Vorth 3naMh of PotoMC RiTor within 15 or 20
^ilea of Oakland, ai^that at the oaao tiaa they were to be
found in the Canaan roglcn of Yeot Tlrginia. In 1891
Prod Surber wrote ae that Panthera wore thai quite oooDaon
ia tho Idbttaroat part vit Tooahonbao Coimty, Yeat Tlz^inia.

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fturthi- 'liw killed Jit tb« AiSr^ndMk*?
any ¥o1to« !>••*■••« «" ^■■'* *".' -
rilderneis of Uto yo«r»?

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Dear lfr« T^athoff :

TharicB'fcr your latter of the 9th instant . which
oaiae yeaterdayo On leamiD|-^that lira* Harriman wieKhea
the aanuacript of the nari^tSte ToItHiea of the Alaaka
Sxpedition, I nade anothtte" aeif dF-yeaterdayt idiich I have
eoabixmed today « ^^ *^ ^^^ withou£'^8^l6eeBa* Amongst the
xszaMTona old bundlea in my attie I found packages of
galley proof and of page proof of these same volumes, hot
not the manuscript* I will continue the search this eYenipg,
and will report to you later* So msny yeara have elapsed
since the printing of these first Toltmes that I have entirely
forgotten what became of the man\i8cript«

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Febrixary 12, 1914

Bdltor. forest & Stream t
22 Thames Street,

Her York City*

Dear Sir:

Hereirith I inclose a note on Orizzly Bears,

which I should be glad if you can publish in an early

issue.

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A f eir days ago I wrote you about two nutobers
of Forest k Stream (January 10 and 31) of whioh only
one copy each was jreceived* The missiqg copies haTe
not yet arriTed*

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Iditor, Outdoor Life,

Denver, Colorado.

Dear Vbr. IfoQulre:

Here is a note on Srizzlies, which I should

be glad if you can make room for in Outdoor Life. I
am seniiie it also to Torest fc Stream and one or two

others.

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Professor J. IfcK. CJattell,

Grarrison-on-Husaorit N.i.

Dear Professor Cattell:

If you have rocm, I should be glad if you
will publish in Science the inclosed note on Sriazly

Bears.

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Mr. W. H. Osgood, , «4 4.

Weld Bus eum of Natural History,

Chicago, 111.

Dear Osgood:

^ Tour letter of January 28 came duly, and
the tanned skin of the head and neck and one fore foot
of Shiraa's Bear from Admiralty Island arrived this
momirg. I am particularly glad to sea these, not only
on account of the color, but also because the clairs
agree with those of the Brown Bears, not the Grizzlies.

I was pained to leom from your letter that

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might "bs desired. Hoirever, perhaps the outlook will

brighten a little later. Tou know your tendency is to

be a little inpatient. Mi^ty few roads are good going

all the way, and we nwst sjq?ect tqpe and downs no matter

irtiat paths we may follow.

The scalp and lag of the Shlras Bear I will

return a little later.

With best wishes.

As ever yours.

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Febru€u:y 12, 1914*

Vr. Perey C. Ihdoirat ^ ^ ^,^ .

900 North American Buildlngt

Philadelphia t Pa«

Bear Ifr. Madeira:

Yesterday I was unable to find Hellefr. but
today I have seen him and asked him whether or not he
had material from the Lado-I%anda -Nile country* He
says that he hcuB slides relatir^ to this region, and
I infer frcm his attitude that he would be glad to .
give you a talk on this r^ion and its game animals
if he were asksd* His address is Sdmund Hellert n»S»
National Ifcuseum, Washington, D«C»

The other man to whom you referred I assume
to be Dr. E. A. Heams. If earns is in wretched health,
and could not undertake a lecture of any kind.

With best wishes,

Tory truly yours.

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Professor Adolph C. Miller,

Department of the Interior,

WashiiTgton, D.C.

tfjr dear Sir:

Thanks for your courtesy In sendiqg me
the copies asked for of the last annual repojrts
of the Tosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Rainier, Mesa
Verde, and Hot Springs National Parks, and for
listing me for the others when ready for distribution.

Respectfully,

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Ify deur Sir:

R«plyii« to your Irttar of th« lOth in«b«nt,

would a»y that tho mound of cono •cales •hero in tho
picture is undoubt«dl7*2*of tho coranon Rod Squirrel

The photograph, letter, and

inolosora are returned herciritlu

?«ry truly yourst

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Nev Yoric City.

Sear Sirs:

Incloeed is nxy dieck for $5 for ^idh
please send a copy of W. B. Scott's History of Land
Innals of the Western Hemisphere to Jlr. Chaa. Shell
8 Vest 9th St. Hew York City. Kindly put the inclo

card in the book.

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February 12, 1914

Professor W. H. Holmes,

U. S. National llasewm.

Washington, D.O.

Dear Holmes:

Replyltg to yours of yesterday,

would say that I haTe been a supporter

of Fairices from the first, end ezpeet

to continue to support him so long

as there is a fighting ehanoe.

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IR. Wilson Obsarvatory.

Pasadena, California.

Dear Dr. Hale:

Tour letter about H. H. lX>nald80n

and C. ff. Abbot came several days ago.
Both of these man have done such splendid
original woi* in the lines to which they
are devoted that no one could question
their .fitness, and sinoe my feelings
towaxd them coincide with yours , it
wUl be a pleasure to vote for them at
the coming election.

With best wishes,

Tery truly yours.

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a. Howard Biroh^Bq.

45 Broadway,^ , ^,.

Not York Oity.

Ify daar Sir:

Mr. Chaa. S. Kii« of your city infon* ma that

you are contfloyUting a hunting trip to Alaska in tiie aarly
■prli«. ani that you might ba wUling to lat ma azandna
tha akulla of any Baara you mkj kill.

I am alsraya glad to aae Bear akulla frcm any
pari of Alaaka, Tukon Territory, or British Columbia,
pariioalarly fran the coast region between tha llaak
Delta and Icy Strait, and alao from as maay localities
as possible between Glacier Bay and southern British
Columbia. In what part or parts do you expect to hunt

durix^ the coming season?

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9mu* Ir. Ibdoirft:

Tear letter of the 12th instant,
telling oe that the Anoaal Sinner of the
Yilderwee eiub will be heU &t the
Rftoqa^b Ql\3b In ThlUdalshia on SatuztLajt
Iwoih 7t hu jtuit ooma to hand.

I had taoh a good time at the
Dlmor last yeart and mjoyod maotiqg the
maBbars ao mdh that I ahall ba only too
cd^ to ba on hanl at tha Dinnar thia

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With beet vishee.

Tity truly youre.

■r. Per«7 C. ledeira, ^ ^,^^
900 Worth iavican Ballding,
Thiladelphia.

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in raeRTd to spuria, U baforo aa^togothor wiUi tha 4 acefloqpaiqring
eredit oonaranda, for vhich I «b oUifltd.

Toa BiBTriM aa Iqr ataii« thst the ImtoI riie^
■hiipad joa in tha car vaa not f onad in tha ear. It mm mxrtlj
pit in ^ W. I, nayar, head aan of tha Ihayer Oaraga, San Safaal,
Oalif omia, aloqs vitb tha othar parta tAlcli yon found* If you
will aaalna the raoa^t Aroa the Jtidaon nreig^ Ponnurding Co.
dated 8aa Ikvneisco, Ootober 15, and aant yon liy aa oo Ootobar 81,
I thizk yoa vill ^ind that thia rli« waa specif ioally aanbiooad
in tha receipt liy the ahippiqg (Mapaoy, ao thai if it did not
arrire in the oar, tha raaponaihiliiy reata vith than, not vith me<
TiTe eoiaaeutiTe teeth of thia haral gear ring were ladly farokan
on the aaooni or third di^ after it waa pot into tha car, aa X
wrote you in w^ lett«r of 8eptedb«r ft«

nth respect to Iha wheel lt«B: In mj letter to you
dated Septenaiber 5 I aaid!

"Ihe rios of two of tha idieela haT* he«a a aouroa of
great aanoyaace* Qa one wheel the space between the rim and the
wood amMara to be too ffraai: as a result the ria aakes a good

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I replaeed the worst of then by borroiring from ihe other wheels
vntil all were crippled, shen I purchased sane new lugs froa
snothsr Mice of ear (the American Ihideralung)
do not fit Kop«ly« "^^^ MttMge td twp the r« «u. »y — -
aaU I aa sanding you some of the original luga ao that you aay
see the codliilon tiiey are in, ani shall be obliged if you will

flmd me a fov good onae.* ^

Aa a matter of faet* 15 of the original l\«p were worn
er buttered dean ao that thqr would not hold« I did not aujppoae
that you had anj uae for theae worthleaa lqga« and therefore
aent only a few assplea to ahov how the tope had been worn
ooaqpletely of fa The reault waa really worae than I told you«
for I did not mention the fact that the rim on the bad idieel one
came mutirely off the oar while we were trareling on the roadt
tbna ruining the tire Talre*

To be parf eetly frank, I will aay that I do not mind
particularly making you a px^eaant of |12t but it goea againat
itf atomach to pay SO eta* apiece for a batch of Itigs which are
really not wex^ 10 eta. apiece, and which can be purchaa^ eii^lj
at aay garage for 25 eta. ,

Gnily let me knew if the gear ringj i», not a^ntianed on

the ahipperU isfoicOa la it not poaalble t^^t it wiu taken out ot
during

tbe car at your woika and the date of your 1^

Vhaxdtipg you for your letter «

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It will giro ma snach pleasure
to lunch with you on Satiardayt February
21, at the Ooamoa Club at l;15t to

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hear liram Bine^bam tell of his project
for further eo^l oration in Peru*

Tery truly yours.

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National Geograj^ic Society,
Yashii%ton, B.C.

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instant, tailing ae of your intandf^ trip to tha -•<
lislm Rifaf,- Thla i« !■.« ragion fr<in Aich wa

haTtf noTar seen tha skull of a Bmt* and I mi tut
aniioaa to kxKnr wfaat spacioa inhabits that r^(xu
If tharefora you eguld obtain ona «• mora akullat I
Bhoold ba graatly obligad. and shall ba of couraa only
too glad to pay all diargas ooniiaetad with saaa. Id
CMa you Boeura a^y, plaasa atoip by aapreaa, <*a^K«*
coUaei. addraaaad U. 8. BiqloBlcal Surrar. D«P*rtm«t
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actual waight of tha l&rsast Baafs df Uaaka^ ' Ihara

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aithar has baan wai^'ad ahtirat bat ona whidi was wa%h9d

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i»iiclsc9,dldnH mfttarializd untU af tor we had

ntunad aaat f<ar the wintor, but it 40 good that

/cu wai.e aible to see Bnily in her collqge quartera.

I am Borry that you are going to leave the

land Office. It ia a ayatary to me hear they can »

mmr nn that office without your guiding hand«

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¥e are juot lufipg our first touch of real
wintar — the f irat Bno» of the season haring arrired
only last wsflk.

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February 24, 1914,

Ifr. Harry Artlmr HoGrar,

1805 - 15th Aveme. . ,'
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Dear Sir:

Tour letter of the 18th inatant, inquiring

where a cqpy'of ny Manunale of the Jdirondacka may be
obtained, reached me several days ago. Ifeif ortunately "^
I do not know of the existence of a single copy for sale,

Regretting aagr inability to help you in this

natter,

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Dear Sir:

ire you in a position to obtain specimons of
OrlMly Bears? I «a particularly anxious to secure aa
m«iy skulls as possible frcui known localities, and wlU
pay a good price for the same, the price v^ying accordii^
to size, sex. and condition. I should be glad to purchase
Srizzly skulls no matter where killed, but in all cases
wish to know the locality from which they come. If you
have any skulls on hand or can obtain any. please ship
the same as early as practicable by express, chaises
collect, addressed U. S. Biological Survey. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D.O.

Very truly yours.

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Hptol Dol Coronado^ ^ ^-^
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Dear Mr. Sargent:

Thank B for yoiir letter of the 10th inatant. I
appreciate your kiwineas in letting ^8 keep the akull of
your female TTnni? ptlM^PTO- ^ r<» ^^ White RiTer country*
I hare ordered duraxor skulls miih teeth and mouth open of
the proper sizes for both the female and male to be
shipped direct to J. D. Allan, at Eandan, and am notifyir^
him by thi a mail to be on the lookout for them* The aal^
Bear I did not feel quite sure about as we ha?e no males
of phAAflnyr except from fax east on the Uaomillan River
and therefore probably not typical.

Tour photographs of Caribou from Oaldem Greek
are most interesting, and I am mightiy glad to haTe them«
They se« to be T^apffff^r osbomi, as you svqppesed, but it
should be remarked in this connection that as yet the
Caribou have not been critically studied, and i^mtever is
said of their technical affiliaticms mist be accented
tentatively* The material for a critical study does not
at present exist in our museums*

Trqm irtiat the newspapers have been saying the
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have suffered additional injuries*

I am glad you stopped at the Uission Inn in
Riverside. To me this is the most attractive hotel I
hare ever put up at*

I lock forward to the pleasure of seeing you
at Lagunitas, ajul if I am in San Francisco while you
are there I shall call you up at the Fairmont. It begins
to look now, I ragret to say, as if I should not be able
to get off st5 early as planned.

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Mr. HoDdr Sargent has glTen me permiBsion

Z^'' to'lteep both of hie &riz2ly skulle from the White

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^^*y fRirer coqntry and to replace the same hy Vrasar^s

"^^^ dinqr skulls. I ordered these last week to be sent
^^ Tod direct, All oharges prepaid, the onall one for
- ^' the fotntde, the larger one for the male« They vere
"^o be of the moutli-open kind with teeth ahowix^,
According to Mr. Sargent ^s instruct! gds«

Trusting they will reach you pronrptly aiid
proTe satisfactory 9

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THaAks for your OfttalQga»ol^,27 just receiTed.
If not alrea^ nSi^ ^Imubo send ma^ft. ,^00 Miiis
aeeoo^argriiig Rep'bH of* the ComnlBaloiitr-j^ Land Office
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''■* "^ R hae taken me a. long* tine ^9. a«#lwl«dei'^
your letter wrmen the early part of Jaojary. We »«r»
Tar,r al'ad^^ h^' fromojb* ani to learn ^E^-^oyfie

ood, •«%eneral aceo^ of -iftiioh we

had sew'in the'pi^ie^ The hieliUI'^er aue^^haye beflo
a dUir^Bivf^ oi^t, particularly >»ben it carried amy
brides ani^'oulTerta. We are wwAir^ If the last atom
struck Lagunitaa - the one that did to nmdi danage In
Southern Calif wnia a short time ago.

Here ire hare had a romaricably open winter, our ^
first snowtorm hatir^ held off until about ten days ago,
when 5 or 6 inches fell. This had not quite all gona
yeaterdsy when about the same amount was added, so it wlU
be seToral days yet before the streets are cleared.

We hope you are enjoyiiig your new house by this
time, and tlmt the children hare found playmates so that
they will not be so lonsscne.

Wit^ kloiest regards in whidh. Mrs. Merriam and

Zenaida join.

Tery trxily yours.

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Feh^ary 25, 1914*

llr^ Frad Mollrir^:. ^
AllianoOt iliibra8ka«

Dear Sir:

Irank 9a\iratt of Haircafltla stateB that you
oxK^e had the hida of a Qrizzlj Bear killed near Hetrcaatley
lyomiogt about 19 yearn ago« I am wonderiqg if you still
have the hidet and whether or not the skull vas pr as erred*
Do you knov whether the Bear was a male or a f emalef If
you hare the skull or know where it is, I shall be greatly
obliged if you will kindly let me know.

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Kalispel, Montana.

Dear Sir:

Hearir^ from time to time of your exploits in
killiiig Mountain Lions « it occurs to me that you might
be willing to send some of the skulls to us for the
Vational Collection. I should be glad to purchase as
many lion skulls as you can send us at $2 each, and will
pay still more for extra largo and perfect skulls with
all of the teeth in place* In case you are williiig to do
this, please attach a tag to each ckull giving the name of
the general locality where it was killed and the sex and
opprojcifflate date, if you are sinre as to these points. It
is not necessary that the skulls should be conpletely
cleaned. If the thick flesh is removed, the heads may be
dried and cleaned after they readi us.

Skulls should be sent by aocpress, chaiiges collect,
addressed U. S. Biological Burvey, Department of Agricuituret

Wasnington, D«C«

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ThankB for calling mj .toention to the
^ual Dinner of the Society. I 1^- not atte^ie^

VI <. dinner of arw kini for inany years - niteen
a public dinner of«^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^,

year, or more I think. a«d ^

in this one. Tunction. of this kind are
„e, and I have f ou«i it more p«dent to give th« up.

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Br. W. W, WoM,

951 Laneaeter Arenue,

Syra-^use, H.Y.

My dtar Sir:

lary thanks for your kinlneas in writii^
me about your Bear skull, which is presumably a
3ri«4y. Kb locality is between the localities of two
which I hare sesn, each representii^ a different species
I should be Tsry glad therefore to see your skull, and
sbaU be greatly obliged if you will kindly send it by
eocpreea, ohaigea collect, addressed U. S. Biological
Sunrey, Oepartnent of igriculture, Washington, D.O.
Kindly attach a tag to the skull bearix« your own name
add the approximate locality and date of killii^.

1 shall of course return the skull prou^itly
unlaws you are willii^ to dispose of it.

Tery truly yours.

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Fabroaiy 26,1914.

Hr. Hanrv ▼• Shoemaker,

71 Broadway. ^ _..

Mew tork City.

My dear Sir:

You were very kind to send me
a copy of your book of Folk lore Tales of
the Seven Mountain*. I delayed acknowledg-
m«it in order to read the book, Te have
now read most, of the sboriea aloud, a>id
have bean mach enterUined by them. The
natural hiatory dai»a worked in incidentally
are also of much interest.

With many thanks for your

kindness ,

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YMhiqgtont DwC«
Dear Sir:

Replying to your latter of the 21 st Imtant^
rould say that if you will dalirer a copy of Yabstar'a
Vm Intamational Diotionary, in plain buckram bindir^t
prioa $15, at ny office in the Northiflober land Apartment «
Kea Haiqpahira iTa. and T StJ^^ttmorrow afternoon, the 27th,
T ahall probably purchaaa the aame.

Reapectfully,

Tary truly youra^

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R^plyii^ to your letter of the SSth
would M^ ^^^ 7^ ^^^ ^^^ nlsliif orndL wl
to th» «i8od# BiastblciiadU The iwaaserlpi in quMtimt
vliioth «M pablishad in a lev Toxic piqper OTor the zwme
yon Bestion, vm not written by ■• Imt by Aigene ?•
Bieknell. a ModMr of the f im of Jcfan Monroe k Co«
Bwkera, llev Toric Olty. ^

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ndce tbe effort.

f ith beet wiahee,

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Bear Kr.Sprague:

It is now some five weeks siiwe 1 received your
encour«gir« telegram Infoming ma that you expected to
•hip By oar the following weeko Since then nothing has
heea heard frcm either you or the car*

- Is it not a fact that in nine cases oat of ten
when a man purchases a good aittanobile and is properly
treated by the autcmobile congpaay. he enters iqjon life-
long pl^Mant relations with said coogpany* becones a
voluntary advertising agent for the ccmpanyt and nevw
thinks of purchasing his next car from any one else? I
think you will agree that this is the almost universal
experience, and it was m^ expectaticn when I purchased oxy
car of your coqpaigr that it was the beginnii^ of a lotig
period of sinilar satisfactory relations* Z have tried
to do BFf part, but I ask you frankly if you think the
Chevrolet Company has done quite the right thing by lut
Hot only have you had my car two months and a half without
attendii^ to it, but no ona connectad with the fin baa
ever answered the various Questiono T have aalta^ frcm tine

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to time. X kave tried to be patient, but a word of
enconragmient fircm you now and then would help mistily.

If you could spare time to drop me a line
telling me frankly what the trouble is, and irtiether or
not I am likely to recafve the car is time to start on
the return trip to Qallfomia in the early sprix^, I it>u^ii
be greatly obliged^

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faflhiTgtor, D.^#

Dear Mr* Adans:

Inclosed IB iry ai^enBa M^count for yebn.ary.

X i'P.r. lo irVnV-. I shall be otllged if you

will ki;idl7 fay from the Harria*ar: Truet.

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Dwiiel H. IwAUl , . '-"' ^
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Dear Sire: „

Thanks for your Catalogae Wo. 9. Tab. 1914.

If not alre«iy sold. I should be ^ to purchase th.

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Ho. 184' Powers: tribes of 0alifornia,1877. fS-

186 ?atnam: Reports upon Ardiaeological %

Ethnologioa Collections fran Vicinity
of Santa Barbara. 1879. 5. 50

75 toory: lotes of MUltwry HaooBnaisaanee

fr<« Fort LaaTenworth to San Diago.ieiS. 1.50
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Bxa receipt a f ^ days «6Q of year llluBtratad

paper on Heetorationa of in«ric«. Boptil- g.- - -^
a ploas^t Mt that Inetead of chudci^ it in the TosbU
Reptile file I kept it in plain .i^t on o^ deric until a
^.re Moment ahc^ld gi- «e a chance to look at it more
do-ely. This I have now done. a«i I cannot help tiling
ycu ho. pleased I am that you have taken the trouble to
give those of u. who are not epeeialieta in yo^or line ^

opportunity to know more of these wonderful heasts. I
w«* to congratulate you Uso on your ability to turn

out such instructive piot^jres.

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San llranclsoo.

Bear Kr. MaillSaz^:

Herewith I m IndoBii^ a decision of the
8i;qpreoia Court of the ^lited States respecting the
validity of the Penmylrania Oame Law, which prohibits
unnaturalised foreign -bom residents from killing wild
birda er aniaMds of any kind, and from owning guns of
any ki^4*

Would it not be in order for California to
pass a law similar to the Pennsylvania one? It would of
course be opposed in certain quarters, but on the other
hand would find a synqpathetic support among the lative Sone

We were greatly disappointed that you gave us
the slip when you wwre east a while ago* I trust that
you and yours are well* and also hope that you have broken
groisxi for the new museum of the Icadamy of Sciences.

With kindest regards to you all,

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larch 9, 1914.

^ dear Ifr. Ifadeira:

Replying to your letter of yastenUy:
I have juBt made inquiry at the Smithsonian
InBtituti'on and m told that they do not «nurd medals
for inventions, whether of fecial h«eflt to humanity
cr othenrise. I was further informed that the only
oedals awarded by the Institution are those provided
for hy siecial funds and awarded for great achievaaenb.

It is encouragii« to learn that a laqi has
• been perfected for use in mines which cannot giis rise

to an az^lr'ttxon*

I aacpect to see you Saturday svening.

With best wishes,

Tery truly yours.

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Hm York Oity«

Dear Siret

Ref erriqg to your late Oatalcigue of Americana,
Ho. 27. I should be obliged if you will kinily senl me at
my ozpense, on approral, the following publicationsa Those
not wmted will be returned to you by w»-Lpress prepaid within
two days after th^ir receipt.

Respectfully,

70 Shuck: The Oalif omia Scrap Book, 1869.

168 Qadsden Purchase , Heintselman k Xhrenburg. Sonora^ 1856.

207a Oartwrl^t: Vestam Wild Animals, :^B^b.

256 Oebow: Tocabulary of Snake or Sho-Sho-Nay Dial3ct,1868.

4X2 Simpson: Report of Reconncissance in Territory of
*^9tah during 1856, 1869.

Also from the previous Part,Ho*234 Bilson: The Trials

and Toils of some Trappers and Traders, 1847 •

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'^^ '" ' n ^arly two wea^ apart.

u^ «• onlT threa day" aP^**
they reached «• ^T «^«9itb

I r«5r«t very naich "tnaii »«

V. «*4mr for me in Hay. bat «» gl«d to
preventa yoa frc« hunting f ^-^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^

.•a thafc you will he at lib / . ^^^ ^^ ^.^erT

pretty late for ^ purpoae. still bet ^

''"'^* W0U14 It be poaaible for you to »ak. a d^Ott

hunt *en the Bear, firat c^^ out f. ^ '^f ^f ^l^^^
f erri,^ with your ers^««rt f or Hayt H -o. I *ould be
gUd to ha., you .tart 31-t M ioon a. there la aiy prosp^
of finding the Beara out of their dwa. Ihe localitia. t.
be Ylalted f irirti I wUl lear. Mtblrely to jour judgneni.
„ you kno. from 17 fomer letter where mterial i. ne«led
from. It would be a great thing to get 8e«re from Taku
or SnittiAan. and I think it would b. an excellent plan
wbererer you go to uae trapa and aet guna to auppl-ent
your hunting -aince we are after .pecimen.. not import.

I wiah you would purohaae for me at all tiaw

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all ih# skulls jou oan possibly get of big Bears vh« you
haTs rsliabls inf oimation as to aboixt idisro they were killed*
Ihile adxiLt males are by far the most TaluablOt I shal^
be glad to parctatse f ooales end young also, and will
reimburse you for vfaaterer you may eDqpend in this wa]^ and
for your time and trouble in labelii^ and shipping the
specimens.

Tour statement that there are eren bigger Bears
on Admiralty Island than the one killed by youi^ Shiras
sux^rises me, sa its skull is a monster. I would glsdly
pay |25 each for additional skulls as big or bigger thou
this one from Admiralty IslandL

▼ery truly yours«

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Dear Sirat ^ — \

Toar lettw of Tebru«ry a (aignad 1, C W»yn«)

hi« b-B fon«rt«d to mo fran wj ««»i«r h«o *t Ltgpnit-i

Oaliforni*. Tho matter of the pump to •hloh yoa rrfor

aart ccotima in .b^y-nco uobil 07 rotum tc California

noxt 8tBBi0r«

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Wasningtont D.C.

Sear Doctor Kaker:

Tiry many thanks for your letter of yeaterdayt
tmemittipg a letter dated Tebruary 27 from the Silver
Lake Tmt^ QcmpaYqrt Ohio, conoamlic birth of VLmck
Bear cdhi. It is mi^^ty interestii^ to have these
airaal statenents from the same paxk, and particularly
to rsMire lij^ on the age at irtiidi she-bears quit
brtedix^*

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Mt* (IharlM Shaldon.

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Dear Sheldon: .

Tour latttr of yesterday tHiB momanb racaiTed

wondarlng ^y w. h^.not haaxtl fro- ^. « h. prcdaad

'' "''"■ HO. MS cl:«^a of heart c^ al^-t I « not aux.
^ X ^ouU Wna H .i^t .a attri^^tad ^ «-" "^^
fa^p,a.^ or influancaa acting in succaasiau Iha fir.t i«
■elson's auffiastlon that ha gat in touch with OurrMi.
Thayar*. cdlactor to Bibaria; the second may hare \>^m
- Hollf star whan it appears imory had known or «at hafora.
and who like Miller is (Taatly interested in Siberian
B^aBials; the third and last were no doubt thoaa you manticn -
the American KuseuB and his own father.

H«lson thought he ought to arrange «lth Ourran to
hare the .ise of hia boat for Alaska coast woA and alao for
a trip across to Sibaria for Sheap. This I opposed for
obTioua reaaons, but the suggeation evidently aadk fn.

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with ao^la nuana should pass over ttia obvious iBoportant
piacaa of work In this country for the aaka of a drop In
a baokai in a foreign land.

Ihan Amory was here ha was not able to gl to ua
the time ^e wanted with him, aa ha had engagmenta with hia
grandmother and wltii Hollialbar.^^gl tried to have him up to
dinner, bob without auoceas. ,,(ta Suriy however Bailey and :

to9k him to the Xoo. ^ .

I had no idea that he had ao aach money to invest

in the eonteoylatad trip. .^^g

Ton evidently feel that we hare in Waahington
aided fn awltchlng him off. Oh thla head I can only say
that lelaon w«ited him to vialt one point on the Siberian
eoaat for Sheep, and that I eppoaed hfa going to Sibaria at
ai. and was very -^ihatic in calling hla attention to the »
place* in need of work along our ama coaat. not to mmUon

the interirar.

Ferhapa wa can have a chance for a iaU at
IhUadeliWa Satutdsgr afternoon. I axpect to gat a ro<« a

Hotel Valton.

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Bear SItb:

Tharics for your Ctetalcgpa 549, am* at
suggestion of Mr. Qhas. Bheldon. I sm gUd of an
opportunity to bid on 'sane 'of Dr. Palmer»»"E«terial8,

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and hare filled out the aoc<»npanfisg blank in aeeordanee

with your inatruotiooe*

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Dear Dr. ^-^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^s raad-.es ma just a.

Your latter or J ttersf ore

T -„ leaTire t«m for ^ cot^le of day. ^ ^^^^ ^

I am leavinB ^. ,,„ vour li«t of Rocky

write no» and defer oamenta on yoar

Mountain m«»al. until after W return.

It is gp od to know that sane one f amUiar wiui

nw.tHodB and with the needa of a public
modem muaeun methods ana wiuu ^^^^^ -om

1- 1^ v«»« nndartaken to reform aaae
axbihition im»eum ehould have unaerwut«i

of the Canadian rauaeuns. ^^<-.

1 «n i«rticularly glad to see that you recognise

A rr^^mm at local museuraB. and that you hare
the inmense advonbages oi xocai. uii«

Y^ the boldness to -retire- spacixaens from Asia and ^

Australia. This is what I have bean preaching for more
than a quarter of a c«xt«ry. A local moseon. in SQf
judgm«t, ahould Uluatrate the local fauna, flora, and
ethnology of the region in which it h^^n^ ^o be. leaving
the great general inuae-ams to the larger cities and

govamment centers.

Tour Lynx label I have read with interest, and
have corrected one or two errors. Tor instance, the tip
of the tail of th* Lynx is always •olMJbUck. in ^tlA

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raspeet it oonti^sta strikingly with the tails of the
varioM Wildcats, all of idaidh have a ^te_UE jfith a -
short ULadc bar on top. The Canada Lynx raiges north to
Paint Barroar. bat I am nob nrare that it iq^abits plains -r

or dasartSa ^ne .-

In tba openir^ paragraph it is hardly corr^t t* ^
aaj -the speciarfv fjWmd in the south deteriorate in oize*."
It Is tnii? that mostTpf^th* Bobcats are smaller than the .^_
Lynx., bat one speciee of Bobcat (Tjlg Bin1») is as big as
a Lynx. Forthennore. it is hardly justifiable to combine
the LfM and the Bobcats, avm ^or th^ most popular use.
sinoa the two acMtituta widalj distinct groups whidi have
been nmaA as saparstta sab-genera, each with a number of
apacie. or aub-speciea. Thu. the Lynx of northern .urop..
Thich you mention as a distinct sp^ies, is far more closely
raUtad to the Canadian Lynx th«a are any of the Bobcats,
not «csptir« those whose ra^ea meet and overlap those of

• «,. «— is a Rood deal like that of the

the Canada Lynx. The case is a gooa a

^^ ^ I «n sure you would h«:dly think of wriwns -

Tin^; Ubel to cover the Black a«i ^^^^T^^ - ^

Oa the other hand. I quite agree with y
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would b. --*^'^-^;';;^,^. .,^, ,i«.a for such «*Tial
related specie, and sub-specie. t P ^^^

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4w,i A iftbel eacfti for the iiar*i» •
in h«rii« a aingie -laDei -iw"

northern Skunks, aril so on.

lith best wishes, ^^^^ ^j^iy yw^fi^^^^

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Dear Sin;

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open, for a" Grimly Bear ruB« Iho akatl'irtiii^ oaoM^
out of the TVR measurea just IS Ib* in total leqgth
from front inoiaom to deolpital condfle. Eleaae
hj parcel poet or eoqpreaa to abore addreaa, and
forward bill at the same tike.

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TiBtr Doctor Stophons:

PloMO f orgiTO agr ungp^rdoMtUo dtloy In roply-
i,« to year kind lott» of Jwotty 2. ^ dolayad writing
in ard«- to soo Dr. 0. P. Hiqr to oak him about tho Bluo
Liek Sprli«« foosUe of which you opo^. Ho Tomb bom
•way for a co^lo of «mthi. wad ha« juat rofcuniod so that
I was not able to soo hi« wAU this morning. And aftsr
all ho had litUa of intaroai to toll «•. Ho didnH sea
to rmenfcer much aboafe tho datails of too collection, but
said that moat of tho apocimana bolongad to larga mmnala,
AA that all woro of Plaiatooaoa ago. I waa diaappointad

not to laam mora about th«B.

ife iuKta >tad aa unacanuily open winter with no
snow tratil quits recently, and only three anowatoraa in
all, the daepeat of which waa obly 6 or 6 inehea. .

7m, I an peraooally acquainted with Stafansaon
and with both of the Kearton brothers. Stefanaaon'a bode
waa moat istlafaetory, but Kearton* a diaappointed ne in ita
illustrations, whioh I •qpectad, after aaeing hia jhotographa
would be asoeptionally fine. I ordered the book a long
tina before it came, and laa aozpriaed to find ao tm
really good picturea of mrnmala.

I am still pegging «fway on ay Bear book, and

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froB tiiM to timo m raeelTing inportant aIcuIIb, nalnly
iron Alaskmt Tukoiit uid British Columbia. As soon as
I can pot ths nanussript in sh^pe for the printer, I
shall set out for CaliUbmia, hut I can easily see a
eei^le of nonths* woilc ahead « possibly niore« HoveTer^
we shall reaeh Leganttas sooner or later, and after
we get there the one trip we shall insist on will be
the loQg prosdsed one with you«

With kinAest r«ards to yourself and Mrs.Steph
in wliiAi 9n. Itariam and Zanaida join, and in grateful
appreeiation for your loany kindnessast

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Mr. W.

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Sear Oaeood: ^ * +v-.

Just irhat do you r«6mber trith r-pact to tha

circuTDBtancea cotmectad with your aacuring tixe akuU of

the type specimen of flrfinn pIlMOnU?

In your report on Baet-cenbral Alaska (Fauna 30.

page 29. October 1909) you state that you rlsited the typa
locality In se«-^ of the skull, but if I r««b» correctly
yeu failed to find the carca... and the skull was subsequently
sit you fro. *«!.. I« there ^ absolute e^Menee that
the skull belongs to the s«ne Bear which yielded the akin?
If I am not miatakan. Sheldon always thought Ihe locaity
of this skull open to doubt, and now since an sddltional
female skull haa cow to hand agreeing with the one froa
Coal Creek bgijQftt with the one alleged to belong to the type
specimen, a Tsry serious question has arlseo. Any light
you can cast on the mtter wUl be thKikfully recelTsd.

With best wishsa,

Tery truly yours.

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Ibreh 10, 19U.

Dear Mr. Thayar: mchigMi. say

The Ch«n-ol«t paopU at Tliflfc. Mi<«^

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it into th. o«r m^ ^^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^

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freteht Tonmrding Co. HoweTor. T,nxB 4.*4„it,

rii« in the «bt.. The Coow^ !»*•«*-« »•
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credit for ai the article, returned excep^ thi. W
ring, which they ha^t not bean ebl. to find.

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Baar Sira:

Acting on your notification that my aubacrlption
to the daily Chronicle wooftd expire on the 20th of Tebruary^
I aant you on Febxuary 19 ny check of $1«50 in jmyment '
for the Weekly Chronicle for one year from date. To my
aurpriae the daily ^Sironlcle baa continued to coae^ the
one for ■anh 5 haTiqg reached me today, but not the
Weekly Chronicle* Fearing niy letter may hare miacarried,
I aai writing agiain to aay that I dp net wiah the daily
pi^er tat do mat the wMklyt and if you hav^ not receive
wf check, I will aend you another.

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Can you withoat aodh trouble give «• ■<»•

information on the subject of ftmtafctlon for the
dMtrttotion of moBaam pasts — to 1>« uss4 both as r
prophylactic and as a rmUji I ramaribar tha rootw
the top of the tttueeuBB constructed for the pexinsnent
preserrati^ri of athnological matarial subjact to tha
Inroads of pasts. Hara ihaaa rooais proTod satisfactory,
BxA is thara any saf a and sinqpla way of ftadgating tham
^' noceesary interrais?

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and with best wishes to you and your family «

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Dear Sirs:

The packaGS of hvmdl** frac t>i# pr,
Talmer eale of the 6th in8t.a..t h« jn«i c^ ^
alonswith your hill for tha,.«ne amountim t#
I inclosa check for this amomt hcrwitfa i>laf
and wish to expresB ray api>reciatioii of your ^
in securing the articles at the prices '-*'

If not contrary to your custon and if Y^r
recorti snow to wt»cm sold, i should b. greitiy oblige^
if you would 1st ms knew ifho purchased lots Hos. 59.69,

and 261.

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Thanks for your letter of
yoatenlay invitiiiB bib to be present as
a guest of the Soqiety at the Annual
Dinner to be held onrMoroh 24. 1 i.^ ^
appreciate your courtesy ia this
natter, and regret that it wiij not.
be practicable for as to be present.

Vith best Irishes,.
••< .TO J fery truly yours,

Br. Jonagan Djri^t. Jr.

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Daar Sheldon:

Tours of the 9«h came jeBtovA&y, and your nanuecript

arrived this morning, for which I am more obliged than 1 can

easily tell you. I will have the bear matter copied out ire a

few days, and will then return the manuscript.

Iblsow has doubtless wri tten you that we were ail a
little misled in the Amory matter. If he had been a little
more frank it would have bean bettor all rowd.

Since 1 mam 90U in Phil«d»lpbia Sunday, the puaslo
about the skull of the type speeimen of ffriTVMt fltf^^fflft ^^^
been solved. Osgood So his report or the trilp states:
type of UyauB h. pbaaoiip was killed igr Bert Bryant, of Ea^le,
on an open treeless ridgs ow the west side of Glacier Mountain,
some 2 miles below the source of (Xmwt OSwek.* He adds that
he later visited the spot "in 8<»ftrch of the ikull, which had
been left with the carcass."^ (Fauna Wo. 30, 29, 1909). Ihis
was im 190S^ Jbt Osfcood omits to add that he tailed to find
the oareass and did not get the skull, Mut asked Bryant tc gat
i t and send it to him latei4 On exwinlng^ our catalogues 1
find that the skull came in a year after the ekiu, and that
there is no evidence whatever to show that *t had anything to

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do with the skiiii more than the circuMtaace that it was sent
bf the same man who killed th3 original baarl

the matter was of such importaace that I took
Osgood^s original catalogue and ti© Bdolcgical Survey X
catalogue to show to Miller and Hollister. Then to my surprise
Hollister at once stated, that fajLias with Osgood at tte tiine
and was familiar with all the facta of his personal knowled^-e.
H is evident to me therefore that I need not •worry any longsr
ovemhe non*conf onni ty of the skull to what we now believe to
b» the ja|jafl£HBL%I». for !,,«■ satisfied that, it was purchaaedi
firm an Indian in onler to -comply with Osgood's request for a
sknll to go with the skin. And I have^ doutet that the skull
came f ro« a considerable distance, pnxbably from tte north
side of this Yukon. ^

Bjr fixing the skin as the |#ype I can reject the
skixll as unauthentic and use the other s^uaXIs of phaeonrx as
representing ths species. This does away with' the utterly
unreasonable distribution t3»t seemed to be called for on xhm
assumption that^ the Bryant skull came out of the type skin.

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Mr. A. Bryan Williams, „ _,

Prorincial Oame Wamen,

Vancouver, B.C.

My dear Sir:

Thanks for your letter of the 6th instant just
receited. i had no intention of ▼isitii^ the coast m]^e If,
hut should be very glad to employ one or t»o good hunter* to
hunt Bear for me in the spring. 1 would like to hire the* -
Iseginning when the Bears first cbme out fnw their winter den^
and to continue for say two months. Thoir sole job would be
to hant big Bears and send me the skins and skulls - the skins
Ho be salted and dried, the skulls to be roughly eleaiMd mA

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dried. 1 would cf coxirse send detailed instructions ia ema^
suitable reliable men can be found. One should work on th»
coaa«,frx» which specimens are particularly needed; the other
could hunit. in the interior.

In this connectioiT i should like to ask if you cm
tell m of any parts of the inteHor where Bears, are likelr
tc be reasonably easy to secure.

Iniian hunters irotild do as well as shite men, if
they would be able tc handle the specimens properly and ship
them to the Biological Survey as directed. If you are able to
put me in cornrauni cation with hunters, can you tell me about how
mucfa thay would expeet per montb includir^ expenses?

If you are able fee help ■» in this matter, t shall b#

greatly obliged.

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Derar Doctor Lucas:

Many thankn for your promptnesB in repl3ring to
mr inqnirr about fumigation. This leadfs me to ask one or
two additional questions, namaly, how you produce smlphur
vapor of sufficient density tc' kill mueum pests. Do you
use the old-time way of bumir^ sulphur candles, or ht^ve
you some improved method? And wlrnt sort of gas-proof
joints have you for your doors? Will felting answer the

purpose?

Sorry to learn that Mrs. Lucas and Jani^tte

have been sufferiiTR from colds. Most of us at this end

of the line have been troubled in: the same way^ but

fortunately we have not had bronchitis this winter. It

is good .to know that you are well again.

With best wishes and kindest rerarde ^>o you all,

Tary truly yours,

Dr.

F. A. Lucas.
Director, American Museum of Na^?iral Sdstory,

ffew York Citv.

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La Qrosse, liaconsin.

Daar Sir:

▼«Tr ^BOklOf thanks for your kindness In wrltir^ me
about your Grlszly Bear skulls I should be axceedingly obliged
if you will kindly loan me for a short time the skin and skull
of your Silvin^-tip Srissly from northsrestam Colorado. If
you ara willing to do this, plaaaa ship by axpreas. charges
eollaeit addraaaed U. S. Biological Survey, Department of
Agrleulturat laahingtant D.o. o«n y<m (s^ir^ mm the locality
whara thia qpaeiman waa killed? I will return both akin and
slrull to you in a short tlmos It would be well to plaea a
pad of folded naawpap'ar between the teeth to prevent breakage
by jtrriic In transit, as beards teeth are fearfully brittle*

If yOU aver come to Washington I should like Tory
muiCb to show you tha big Bears and other game animala in our
Satiooal Clollaction*

In reply to your quewoion, would say that while we

ara alvaja glad to raoaiTW apacimana as gifts and are also

glad of an opportunity to purohaae such specimens aa the owners

ara willii^ to part with, we ara alao mi^ty glad of the

dianea to borrcar apacimena, particularly akulls, in order to
help out in tachnical studies of the group*

Thanking you for your intaraat In tha mattert

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Direcrtor, Qoloraio Museum of Natural Histoid,

Denver, Colorado •

Bear Mr. PigEinB:

Last summer you were kind enougb? to send the
Mo logical Surrey for my exarainatioi^ the skull of a larg9
Gb-izzly killed in* Wyomingr W **^» McQuira of Denver.
Unfortuna".ely I #qs in California at the tio^^ and the
'^ skull was returned without my seeing it. It was
photographed however, but no roeasurementB were made.
'I Bin writing therefore to ask if you will be kind enou^
to lean me the skull again for a few days An order that
I may make the necessary measurements and compare it with:
the specimens now in the museum. If you are able to do
this, please send by express, charges collect, addressed
U. S. Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.G.

It would be well to place a pad of folded news*
paper betweew t?ie jaws to prevent iirjury to the teoth by
jarrinp; in transit, as beards teeth ar^^^ exceedirvpjiy brittle.

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Dfc you happen to know the hereabouts of any other

Grizzly skulls from any part of Mbrth ifodrica? I am most

anxious to buy or borrow all many Grizzly skulls as possible
before my Bear book goes to press* ' ' ' * -•

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Mar<A 16, 1914.

Budson Book Co.

862 Hwritt Place,

Heir York City.

Bear Sirs:

Haplying to yours of the Uth instant, woold
state tiia* I shall be glad to take 27-412 Sla^on, at
$3, as previously ordered. Should be glad also to have
you send me on approval Transactions of imerican
Bthnological Society. 1815-1848, aid Hill: Tocabulary
of Shoshone Language. Salt Lake, 1877.

ir net wanted, thaee will be returned at once,
carriage both ways paid by me as a matter of course.

Respectfully,

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^aar Sir:

■r. ToLnttit who ma just here, told me that you are
peraonally familiar with two eases ihi ubich *a big Bear unprovol
at:badtod a white wan in the region about Seirari« If so, I sha!
af he TSflry et^^Xy obliged if yoo will kindly write me the facts
,ic in each ease, with apprezliaate dates and names of persons injur
,/ ^ I haTS nearly finished a laiige work on our big Bears

on whlflh I haTS been eognged for more than twenty years, and
ansious to saeare reliable accounts of oases in which un«

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wounded bearw have Toluntarily attadced men* Any inf ozviatinn
you may give me on this subject will be fully appreciated and

duly credited*

Should you be able to purdiasa from the nafciyes or
other huntars ^ skulls of bears Irom the Kenai or adjacent
parts of Alaskat i ehould be Teryglad to pinrdiase the same at
prisM rai^ie from $2 to $12 each, accordiz^ to age, sex, and
condition^ ^ A tag siiOuld be attaohed to each skull giving the
locality lAiere kUled; the name of collector or yoxir own name*
mod the/asK fMsd aj^rozimate data if these are positlrely knoim
MSi mptoif^BfiB shovld be .saot by erpress^ chazgea collect.

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Mr. Tolman. liho wM her. today, tell. » «»«• T~

«« gl,. ma ralUbl, .lr.fom«t.l«. conc,mlr« th. b«t ny to
.Ualn .v^^, particoUrly .hxlls. «' «" ^"^ '"^
of ,outha«t.m Ala.ka. I m «»lou. to oUIn » -»ny ^K
a. jo..lblo from all jart. of the cosrt. l.l«a.. •«* l"'"^"^-
Wt« -P«=iaiT doslrou. of .acurlrg *ull. fr» lynn Canal.

^ 4.V-. ../%.•> into iritish Colwnbia.
the Taku. vA wnyiih^r^ along th-e coast Into Bri

The ekuJlB need not b. cle«..d. It is sufficient to cut off
the thick flesh aiid scoop out the bralnB without injuring the
bone of the ekull. After drying for a week or so. such
specimens my be safely shipped either by mail or Vy «iress.

It is important that a tag be attached to each skull
gi.ii^ the locality where it was tilled, ti. name of collector
or your own na^e. ^ ^^e apprerinaf date of killing, also

the sex when positively known, / * x,.

For skulls of arizzly irA Broun Beairs (not the
snaller Black Bear with, -hort hookei cla-rs. which so-etime.
iltrl in color). I will pay fr« |2 to tl2 ^; acconling

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or others? If so I shall be grealy obliged. The min point '
is in each case to have the skull labeled iS^Stfooalitj
i*ere it was killed. *" ~ — '

In addition to the skulls which you might secure
from Indians.. W others, do you know any reliable hunter ifean
I could mplcy for a couple of months in the early spring to
hunt bear for me along the coast fran Lynn Canal southeasterly
into British Columbia, and do you l^ppen to know any good
hunterrraJong th^^ast of ^it4,|h>?Columbia? Wha.1r pay w«ali .'
sijch himters .ejsB^ to r^|nie:T?er month, they findingrithamselves?
fe-case I a,^ieyed one, i.er^ov hunt ere I should want tl«»-*cfna
as wen as the skulls 'of the bears they kill, the sKina t,o t,o
taka^ntira. salted, and dried.

All specimens should be sent by express, diarges
collect, addressad U. S. Biological Survey. Department of
Agri^lture. Washington.. D.c,

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tShicagc, 111.

Dear Osgood:

Thanks for yoior proiflptneBS in ajiswering vsj
about the skull supposed to go with the type skin of HcSUfiL
phaeonyx^ I have talked with Hoi lister about the m otter «
and his recollection tallies with yours. It is safe to
say therefore that there is na positive evidence that
this skull came from the Co(aet Greek country.

lOt I am not good at reading other people^ s
minds at a distance of a thousand miles. In fact, mj
efforts in that directicoEi have not yet spanned more than
420 miles. I must confess therefore that I have not so much
as an inkling of your plans for the coming siaraar, but shall
be very glad to hear anything that you may tell me as to
the same.

Since writii^ you I have learned that Svermann
has been appointed director of the Ummevm of the California
Academy for a period of (me year*

Olad you are to publish your Peruvian raar.uaJ. paper

in the near future even if you are not able to make it so

full as would be desirable.

¥ith best wishes.

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My dear Sir:

Tour letter of the 12th instant came several
days ag», and the skull you were good enot^ to send
has now arrived and iajof much interest, beii^g a fine
old f aosale of the Meodcan Grizzly. I greatly ap^^ eclat e
your coorteay in' free anting it to the collection, and
have jnat had it entered in the Moseum catalogue as a
donation froa you. .+.k ,. -,^-.,.

We should be very glad ot cojirse to receive
additicoal material from the Sierra Madre, but as you state
conditions there at present are not inviting for citizens
of the Iftiited States.

Any time when you hcppen to be in Washington,
it would give me much pleasure to show you our collections
in the n«w Hational Mciseum Building.

With many thanks,

Tery truly yours.

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Mr. J. '3. Miles,

Dear Sir: « < i„

Some time ago you wrote me about two &ri.«ly

Bear akine with ekulla killed in the mountains of
Colorado last October, for ^idi you asked |110. ^I was
not aUe to take the matter up at that tima. ^t you
still ^.e the speciiaens and ^e willing to send t^ -
on ai^oral, I wiU take thailt your price, provided. .
they prove satisfactory for maseum specim««. I as«»a
that you can f^xmish the necessary data in ^. way of
the locality or localities wher^ they were killed.

If you send tham. ship hy «jresa, charges

J n Q Wolocical Survey, Department
collect, addressed U. 3. Biological o j. r-

of igriculture, fashington, D.O.

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»a» Tork Olty.

Dear Sirs:

Ihank. for yours of the mh inetant jui

received. As you did not inclose receipt. I am
Bending one herewith, which I shall be obliged ff
you will kiMly sign and return.

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Daar Era. Oameron:

Tery many thanks for your courtesy in
sending ma Ir. Pocodc^s letter* In case the
photographs come. I slmll he very glad indeed to
see them*

Tou can hardly realize what a help your
big Srissly skull has been to me. It fits In
between those in our Collection, f illii^ a wide
gap and enabling me to avoid an error into which

I probably should ha^e fallen had I not ooen it.

With best wiuhes to you and Mr. Cameron.

?ery truly yours.

Mrs. Ivelim J« Cameron.
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Soar Qolonal Bretts

X vas diaappointad that I waa nab able to connaot

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wHih yott in time to show you owr serids of Bear* in tho
lational ■oaeum bafor* your return to the "Hxk*

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It ia hard to anavar your quaation aa to hov
the tao apaciaa of Oriasly ixdmbitiog tha fturk nay ^ ^old
apart by axtamal ofaaraetara. Qtaa apaoiaa howarar ia Tary^
mudh laxsiv* ^^^^ui tha othar. aax for aaXt ani In bcfth eaaaa
tha malaa are vary mzeh larger than the faooalea* I have not>
had akim with olnra of the tvo apeciea for ccoqMuriaon aid
therefore am not able to aay irtiathar thay preaant any eaaily
reccgnSaable external dif faraneea*

Juat at preaant I am tungently in need of more
akolla of thaae Beara from the Ttok ragiont and weald be
willing to pay almoat anything in reaacn to aeoure thao in
time. I notioe by your laat report that it waa fouod
neoeaaary to ha^a f Ito Orisaliea killed in the Plark laat

font and that laoat of their akina apollad owing to the
hot weather* I am wondering if it would not yet be poaaibla
to obtain the akulla of thaae aaifie Bear* in eaaa they
were left on tha groauL or buried. I irculd be glad to pey

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from $6 to $10 aadi for Jslaaa. tio any one wixon you mlg^it
deei^iabe to aecuce tli*m. The mou^ I would pay for than
i« not goverMmant money, thsrt^^rp wo»*ld lea^ to. no '
eaft>vra0aaent. Ihe specimens •would go to the Rational
Bis e«m for permanent pros errati on. : .,^.

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Bear Sir:

]fr% 0. Tm SummBrson tells me that you are a
hunter arid thisLt ycfu are in a poeltlon to eeoure ekulle of
manaala^ I am anzioiie to purdmae as vmaj ekulla at Qriszly

as I oaaget hold or from the T9llovBtoTie;Fark and
from acyvhere in the weet.ao long aa I knov the locality irtiere
they were killed* For euoh flkulla I will pay from $2 to $12
each accoxtUng to sext ege, and condition* I should he glad
also to purchase as maiqr skulls as possihle of Mountain
Lions, lynzest Wolves, ax]d YolTerine at rates varying from
$1 to |3 eadi* Skulls need not be cleaned, but the thick
meat should be cut off and the brains removed through the
natural opening without injuring the skull* They can Vma
be dried, and as soon as dried can be shipped either by
express or parcel post* In the case of parcel post I will
remit the amount aspended for postega* Plaokngea seni by
express should be msriced Qhaxges Oollect, end should be
addressed U«S« Biolcgioal Survey, Department of Agriculture t
IssMngton, D*C#/S^--'^ ^ ^ , ^^-^h^ - ■ ^^ .. ♦ ^t. ':,.

Rease let im knee whether or not you have any

skulls on band that you can sep^t and whether you will be able
to get edditional ones this 0prin&

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prOBpinaes iniiwriqg tlie'ifVii BaaJf «
^hraa of than ara Blaek Boara, tha otnar two ara intnaWra
iMlliKllaa, •hidi 1 am vary glad to aaa at tha prasani
time, i will retium them all to' you a little later.

With appreciative thcuriks for your do^jrtesy in

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Bear Sir:

I am anxious to •aoure m vmaj skull* m poaeibls

of Oriislj Bdan from the Tukon and Poro^in* refeions la

llaaka and Yukon Territory, (hn you help m In this matj^rt

If you cai^ Indues Kxlians or hunters to brli^ in skulla aid

will ship the same to me, I sbaU be greatly obliged, vA

will be glad to pay from 12 to $12 ead» for such skulls. -

according to ssx, age. and coidltlon. the skulls need not

be eoD^letely cleaned. It will be moo^ to out off ths

thick flesh and ranove the braim throi«h the hole In the

back of the skull, the skull should not be cot or brdken.

But don't throw sray skulls ^ursd hj shootlig, as I wlU

take aU skulls recelTed, payli^ for them aoooxxili« to the
eondltioQ.

the most liaportant Information oonnetfted with aacb
•kull Is the locality where It was killed. I do not care i^re
th^ are kUled so long ss each one is labeled with ih*
locality, ?or this puipose I m sending you in another
•nrelope a batofa of tags. Rease put your vm name on each
tag so that I will know whoa the Aulla xiae f r«i, as we ara
receiving maqy psoksges f^om dlf ferM»« P«^ of the cowtry.
•kulls should be sent hj eipress, ^baiges collect, addrsssad

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V. 3. Biological Survey . Department of Agricultiire ,
Waflhingtont DsG. It will be well to put your own name
and addreae on the ooialde of the box« In caaa you should
find it more convenient to send by parcel poet, I will
add to the account the amoiint you expend in postage.

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of these Bears are so hard to ohtain and come in so slovly
that Z hare bean unshle to cooqglete the work. lb ne^mB
necessary however to send mgr book to press during the
present season^ for irtiich reason I am mflkiqg a special
effort to secure skulls to fill the ramini^g gaps as
early as possible.

Jn talkiis with Charles Sheldon of Hev Tork
recently, he suggested that I write to you. thinking you
might be in a position to assist* I should like to purdas
skulU of Qrissly and Irown Bears from all parts of Alasks
and British Colunbla. but am particularly anxious to get
skulls from the coast region of Glacier Bey, lynn Oanalg
anl the coast strip to the southeast. XT you happen to kn
the whereabouts of ary skills or if you know one or two
reliable hunters whooi I could «qplqr iomediately to hunk
Bears for a month or two during the early spriqg, I should
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It ml^ be mfell to mention that I sm already
In correspondence with Hasselborgt who has hunted for me
two or three times and whom I hope to have sgain. Rit
*I should like one or two additional vhunters to operate at
other points* A^ assistance you may render In this
iter will be thoroug^y appreciated.

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March 23, 1914*

Hr. J. ©• Tiaglnfl.

Director, Qolorado IfciBQum of Katural History,

Danver, Colorado.

Dear llr. flggina:

Tory many thanks tot your coiarteay ani

prooiptness in sendii^ the McGuire Orizzly and also tha

throe additional specimens, which I did not previously

kncp about. These are of very great assistance to me

at the present time, as they fill laiportant gaps in our

series -«the MoQulre skvdl and the old female fron near

Qhromo, Colorado, are of special interest. The loSulre

Bear, by the way, was not killed in Montana, bat on the

Harth Fork of Shoshone fiiver in Nf Wyoming.

Tery truly yours«

Stopple Kook Kit Co.

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Oear Sirs:

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Lse ser^ me one Ccnrplete Camp Cooking lOutfit,
scopanyir^ advertisement.

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nint, Uchigaii.

Chur arrir^d without ay^jaok^ w«dd dmiiuit o^ innar
tubM from the two diseardad tires, fioasa forward 8ama<
Startar would not work but Handaraon and Rowa ha¥a bean

tryixc to fix it today*

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Kr. I«nz7 W. 8ho«aKk«r«

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Hot York City.

Bear Ir. Shoemakers

Tery jnany thanks for yoiir most recant publication
on the PennsylTani* Panther. It is ehnek full of informatio
f^ich I am glad to have at hand, and I wlrii to tipreas ny
appreciation of your effort^in aecurii^ and recoidii^
this kind of material,

Itat you will pardon me, I am sure, if I aoeuee
you of unintentlonaUy mieijaotiic; what I said about tiie
cry of the Ptather, as I nerer said or wrot« that -there is
no sucsh thins " • Ptother «ry. Ihat I did say related
•xclusiTely to the Ptather in the Adiroodacks and had nothi,«
to do with the anima elseirtier* It •.. this: -I hare yet
to find the man. whose stat«ents on this point are of aiy
Talue, ibo has erer heard a wild Ptather sereaa. This is
negative erldance it is true, but it is by nome«.s without
value; and it is certainly safe to assert that at least 9S96
of th. o^led 'panther screams' «.nate fro. a widely
different source".

In the west I hare mere than once heard the Cougar
or Mountain Lion, a rery neer relative of our eastern ftmther
utter its characteristic cry. and had no intention of

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ait la the Idirondacke where the beasts have been persist-^oly
hunted for many years, they sesa to have learned ^o remain
quiel^ or else have indulged in their mueieal perfonmnces
in localities ranote from the ears of men.

With best wishes.

Very truly yours.

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Harch 25. 1911.

Ilr. 8. H. Ledc,

Jackson, T/oming.

Dear Sir:

I am anxious to purchase as mai^ skulls of Oriszly
Bears as I can git hold of from azTvrhara in tht ittstt so loxf
as I knov the locality ivhera thsy were killed, for sudi
skulls I win pay from $2 to $12 aaeb aeeordiqg to sak,
age, and emdition. Skalls iwW n^'be cleaned, hub the
thiek meat should be out off and the brains ronoTed throi^
the natural opening without injuring the skull. Ihey can
then be dried, and as soon as dried can be shipped either by
express or parcel post. In the case of parcel post I will
ranit the amount ea^enled for postage. Vackagee sent bj
express should be marked ffimiy— ^^lljtiti and should be
addressed \J, 8. Biological Survey. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. Tour nune and address sl»uld be written
on the outside.

Please let me know whethwr or not you have any
•kulls on hand that you can send, and whether you will be
•ble to get additional ones this sprir^

Teiy truly yours.

P8.

-V. *T ^F ' Hhould boar a tag mrked with box. loc^lf-ir
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McBride, B.C. ^'

Aear Sir:

I am anxious to purchase as nAigr skulls of Grrizzly
Bears as I can get hold of fron anywhtr^ in the west, so loi^
as I knoir the locality where they were k^Liad. for such
skulls I will pay from $2 to $12 each accor%ing to saix^ i^e,
and condition* Skulls need not be cleaned, but» tne thick
meat should be cut off and the brains removed through -yie
natural opening without injurii^ the skull. They can thb^
be dried, and as soon as dried can be shipped either by
express or parcel post. In the case of parcel post I will
remit the amount expended for postage. Packages sent by
express should be marked ^flmf^* nolleet. and should be
addressed U. S. Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.O. Tour name and address should be written on
the outside, lach skull should bear a tag marked with s«x«
locaity wh^re killed, name of collector, aiKi date, when known.

Please let me knot whether or not you have any
on haiMi that you can send, and whether yov will be able
to ge additional ones this spring*

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Kr« P« C* Petersont

lorih Bend 9 Washington.

Dear Sir:

I am anxious to purchase as rmnj skulls of ftrizzly
Bears as I can get hold of from anywhere in the irestt so loi^
as I know the locality where they were killed. Tor such
skulls I will pay from |2 to $12 e&ch according to sex, age^
and condition. Skulls need not be cdeaned, but the thick
meat should be cut off and the brains removed through the
natural opening without injuring the skull. They can then
be dried, and as soon as dried can be shipped either by
eatress or parcel post« In the case of parcel post I will
remit the amount expended for postage. Packages sent by
ei^rees should be marked flhttjyrAn Boiiact^ and should be
addressed U. 8. BiologicaJt Survey , Department of Agriculture,
Wkahington, D.C. Tour name and address should be written on
the outside. lach skull should bear a tag marked with sex,
locality where killed, name of collector, and date, whan known.

Please let me know whether or not you have any
skulls on hand that you can send, moA wheth. you will be able
to get additioncd. ones this spring,

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Sear Sir: , -

I am anxious to purchase as many skulls of Grizzly
Bears as I can get hold of from anywhere in the west, so long
as I know the locality lAiere they were killed. For such
skulla I will pay from $2 to $12 aaeh acoording to aex, aga,
aM condition. Skulls need not be cleaned, but the thick
meat should ba cut off and the brains ramored through the
mtural openiiE without injuring the skull. They can then
be dried, and as soon as dried can be shipped either by
ospress or parcel post. In the case of parcel poet I will
remit the amount expended for postage. Package sent by •
opress should be marked IniTFfm ffoUtrt. •«! a^iould be
aAressed 0. S. Biological Survey. Department of Jgriculture,
Washington, D.O. Tour name and address should be written
en the outside, lach skull should bear a tag narked with
sax. locUity ifcere killed, name of collector, and date, whan

knoim.

Pl©?u ^ IwWne knoir whether or not you have any

BkullB on h^ar that you can send, and whether you will be
able to get additional ones this spring.

Tery trxily yours.

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Br. M. ?• Donham,

Orando, Hantana.

Dear Sir: •

I am anzioas to purdmse as many akulla of Oriasly
Bears aa I can get hold of from azqfvhere in the weatt ao Icog
aa I knov the locality where they were killed. T6r such
akulla I win pay fwn |2 to $12 each according to aez, age,
and condljbian. Skulls need not be cleaned, bat the thick
meat should be cut off and the brains ranored throqgh the
natural opening without injuring the skull* Ihey can than
be dried, and as soon as dried can be shipped either by
espress or parcel post. In the case of parcel post I will
remit the amount escpended for poata9« Facki^ea sent by
express should be marked flWaripfftii flollfigt^ and should be
addressed U. S« Biological Survey, Department of JigriculturSt
WaahioKbon, D«0. Tour name and address should be written
(m the outside, laoh skull should bear a tag marked with an,
locality irihare killed, name of colleetor, and date, wh«i
known*

Fleane let me know whether or not you haTe any
akulls on hand thd-t you can a end, and whether you will be able
to get additional oneif thia springi

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wolf, Wyoming.

Tfy dear Sir:

I MI •till huqgry for .kulls of ©rl««ly Bears from
•U furte of iyanli«, Iant«». «ri Idaho. 9o you happon to
knof «qr <«• 1*0 has any old akulLi knoekh^ .boutt Qr hers
you or any, of your fWondB bawr^ln n^ with ,^t akulla
of oithor oAle or faoale mountadr in the n^ & caaaa of
tiii . kind I «» T«y 6l«i to pay trm |10 to 125 oach f or the
prlTUaeo of taking .uc* akuU. out of tha n^ ««i ^opUcii^
*« with dtnv Inaia with oarrod ban. toath. lAlch aorar
««* «>d braak to plocoa Ilka tho r«a tarth of tha Bears.
& c..a yoa hara any oatarlal of iW. kind which you would ba
wlUanB to allow «. f ha^ the skull, taken out of. I should
consider ft a great fror If you would kindly sand thsm by
^re... chaiB- coUeot. addressed tf. 8. Biological Survey
^mnt of Igrlcul^e. Waahlngfcon. B.C. I would ratun,
the Skin, with tht d^ .kail. Inside In about t« day.,
this being the tin. neaeaaary to fit the new akuU aT^ieth
^^ do a good job of wa. work in the nouth.

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wUB late data to trmt tw^r^^^A^ ^u i^ ^

■» the ra«.e. of t^ ^""^ /'^^^ t<»Sther to emble me to
m^ *he range, of the aereral species of grisslie.,

nth best wlahe.^

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Bear Doctor lltlngt

Since I had the pleasure of meeting you fa«a

to faoa lii fhiladalphl* a short tima ago. I hare heard
that you hid acme sort of a scrape wi«i a big Bear on
tha Kenai last fall. If this is true, would you alrd ^
giving IB. an aecomit of the aipliodaT

81»11 you be in-Waahington during the spring?
If .0. i should like Tery much to shar you our collection.

in the lational fca«w«u

With beat wlshs.,

Tory truly yours.

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Inn irbor^
Itj dav Soobor Batfarens

Tary miof thaidbs for yoar courbMy in
notifying Be that you haro & Oriasly .kuU whlA
yoa are vailug to loan ma. I ahaU ba ddli^tad
to a«a It, M it eonaa f^-on a raglon ft-om •hlch tha
•kulla alrawfy aaan ara Tarj parpl«l,^. naaao
•«nd tha akuU \rf opraaa. chaxBM collect, addreaaad
W. «. Blologleal furFay, Bepartmoit of lerlcaltura,
l^hlngton, 1),C. ,. .

Incidentally. It la curloua hor Many
ipiport«,t skulla ware dlatrlbotad aa ■diq)llcataB»
by Frof aaaor Balrd to tha «trlj daya, I hare i^antly
racalrad ona fron, tha Princeton ftaem iriiich «ag
collactad on the loirar Tallowtona. and i. a »o.t
Important old aknll,

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oT a f »Al* Or Jzaly Boar labeled aa a donation frm
you, bat the Ubal contains no information ae to
locality or^ta. lfe>W bai?pen tiPrammber where
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plae» tft iroric In. and to knoir that: It
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wif •. and truBtlflg that wo loay see you
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Luminous Unit Oo%

2600 liuhiDgt on Avenus ,
St. Louis t Mo.

Dear Sirs!

I shall he ohligsd if you will sorjcl mo your

circular coinaming house li^tirig hy means of your
Brascolite shades and reflectors*

Respectfully,

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22 Thames Street,

Itm York City*

Bear Sirs!

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I shall be obliged If you will eend me a
couple of small packages of Oskita, or else inform me
where the same may be procured in this city. I will
raolt- on receipt of bill.

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Juneau, AlasKa.

Bear Sir:

Your letter of the 18th instant reached me this noon.

1 regret that you cannot hunt for me in April, hut am glad tha*
you have aeoared the senricee of lin. Ifarphy at the same rate
that you were paid last year, namely. $150 per month including
all eipenaes, he to fiol himself, I am sending you a telegram
asking you to start him for Taku or 8na(ttiaham. Shall I hare
his voudiars aid pay cha«ics sent to him at Juneau?

I should like him to hunt at both Taku and Snettisham
80 as to get as many Bears as possible. Be sure that he under-
stnds that I ^rant everything - wbe and females as well as old
males, and would like both skins and skulls of all that he
kills himself. Also pi ease tell him that I would like to hare
him purchase as many skulls as he possibly ean fron Indians or
other hunters. aiA that I am always ready to pay a good price
for these, as I have already written you.

Ihon he is finished in the Taku and Snetiirfiam regions,
liiould be glad to have him continue southeast er^y and hunt
aloi« the coast if he is familisr with this co*«t or can learn
where Bsars are working. If he is not faniL-'*»r th the coast
farther soutti. he mic^t hunt in Lynn Canal and aiacisr Bay,
and then gj to Lituya ^ . unless you pre**" to work lituya

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yourself.

As I understand it, you will hunt for me in
June and July. J hope also that you will be able to secure
additional skulls by purchase.

It is good that, Ifarphy is able to talk with the
Irriians in their own language. Thds will give him a great
advantage. ...

Herewith I am sending you a batch of tags for him
in a separate envelops.

Haass tell hirt to ehip his speeimens by express,
chaises collect, addressed U. S. Biological Survey, Department
of Agricalture. Washington. D.C. I would like to have him make
each shipment as aoon as practicable after the apecimans are
diy enough to stand boxing, so that I may have the use of them
as early as possible.

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I aaea-ne that yoix will give him details as to the
preparation of sfctns and skulls, you being an eotpert in this line,

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J^^idS' WLconBin fiflh fc Oame protective League.
^~^**S*<fo8«e. Wisconsin.

Mv dear Sir: '

Tery many thankB for yoiir courtesy in sending

^A,.^^ Bear It arrived tliis morning in excallant

Tf ir.i Wl, «lult f^. I V"" "» "^ "' •^•'*";, '"
thar afore fill" a oig g»i» •"

^th. Biologica .ur^y tor *. «.tlo-l «oU««on. ^Jh.

,.,«. H« M«I= th, 6r««d color 1.. lor, it not for th,
6.1d.n tip. of th. l^r.. th, B«r -ould h.v. b.«Tp™.ticall,

thanks for telling me about the different effect,
of th« >okefd a«i naked bullet.. I have never used jackeied

••# — T r,r.rf9r What alwKva seamed to me to be tl»
bullets myself, as I prefer wnaTi mMmy

oore stunning effects of the mosbrocning bullets.

w<f.>, renewed thanks for your great courtesy in

this matter.

Tery truly yours.

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1. Hasselboig,

Juneau, Alaska.

tasMngton. D.C. March 28,1914,

^^e engage Ifc^hy for April a«d Hay. ^ etart hi. of
for Taku or Snsttisham. Advise him as to details of
preparation and shipment of specimens, Aatocrf.. ^ to
puxxrhase skulls. Will write you at once, •

C. Bart Merriam.

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5^1lr. Ad-»: ^«n«« Mcount for Ifaxch C$78.68).

w«-flirlth I enclose my, expense accpum. i» „ ^ _,. ^

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grf^ voucher for Helen Qro. . ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^

,or ^1 of Waiow ^'^"^^♦^•^^^^ "^r^ ,ran the Harris.. f'.«d.
^ch I shall be obliged if you will kinfly V^ Jr

varff tnrlT voura ,

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John ¥. Cadby, Esq.
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Dear Sir:

Thanks for Catalogue No
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178. ftwjific RR Rsports, 13 vols
180. Indians Taxed and Not Taxed

167 just received. From it

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math's Voyage to Calif., and 193 Vah-kee-nah aM her people.

nea8» send 178 Pacific RR Reports by freight to save
heavy .transportation charges; the others by express.

Respectfully,

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March 28. 1914

John W. CaxilDy, Esq.
50 Grand S!I.
Albany, II. Y.

Dear Sir:

Thanks for Catalogue No. 167 just received.
I should be ^ad to ,puri*iwi« tb»,f«ai^«^;
42. Batfl^' • Toj^, a-qroifc ^MW

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160. Indians Taxed and Not Taxed 1.00

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aso. if you like, you ^niglit send on approval 49 Wohleg.
imith' 8 Voyage to Calif. , and 193 Wali-kee-nali aiid her people.

Heas* send 178 Pacific RR Reports by freight to save
heavy transportation charges; the others by express.

Respectfully,

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Ur. J. 0. ICiles,

1742 Broadw^,

Denver, Colorado.

Sear Sir:

Your letter of the 2&th instant is at hand, and
I am glad to knoir that you still have the driaaly Bear skins
am akaXU in qiieation. and that you wiU ship th«n to us in

the near future.

I note with interest that you hare a romher of
additional siculls of Oriczly Bears fran points in Colorado,
Nev Ifezieo, Ifyonii^, and Montana. I tihall he glad te> purchase
all of these if you will sell than at reasonable prices, and
if you know the approximate locality where each was obtained.
Please send them by express, charges collect, addressed U. S.
Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
in the case of cleaned skulls, please place a pad of folded
ne»^pap«r between the jots so that the teeth will not be
injured by jarring, for as you know, the teeth of Bears are
vary brittle and break easily.

Just now I am trying to conylete my work on the
big Bears, and on anxious to obtain as mny skulls of Srizzlie
as I can get hold of from all parts of th« country.

Respectfully,

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Br* Haurlan !• Smitht

O^OQlQgical Survev,

Ottawa, TiarsdBL.

Dear Dr. Smith:

PlaaflQ pardon my delay in replying to yoijr letter
of the 9th Infitant, and in rstuming your list of Rocky Ut.
Usssmla of Sastem British Oolumbia. I have been ovenrhalmdd
with work of late, and have not been able to take the matter
up until this morning.

You will obeanra that I have added the Bobcat to
ft r list of PelineSt Ottor to your U^jstelines, Me^owaice
aik^ nedbackad Mioa^ to your Rats and Uice; and also have added
^hree lax^e groups omitted in the list, namely, the Jurirping
Mice (Zapus)t the Pocket Gophers (Thcsmomys), aiid the Inaectivora
represented by the Holes arjd Shrews* I have also «q?aratad
the Chipnwnk from the Goldenmantled Ground Squirrel, iiasmoch
as the two belong to widely different genera*

With best wishes^

Very tnily youar*^

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not reach th^Rocl^ Uts. It is reipresented by subspecies commonly
cailedRed and Pine Squirrels. Aplodontia also is a coast
animal which probably does not reach your region.
Your litf^ is inclosed herewitli*

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Kluano Lako« _ . .

7i» Ihito HoPBa, Yukon Territory.

Sear Sir: —

Are you in a position to obtain skulls of ffrizzly

Bearit I am most anxious to secure as many as possible
during the present season, as I am noir completing a work on
our big Beari.on wMch I have been engaged for a number of
years. Should you have ary skulls on hand or be able to
purchase any from Indians or others, or should you kill any
Orfssly during the coming season, I should be greatly obliged
.if you would ship the skulls by express, charges collect,
addressed U.S. Biological Survey. Department of Agriculture.

▼ashington. B.C.

Please attach a tag to each skull giving the sex.

locality where killed, approximate date, and your own name.

For skulls of Orizzlies from the region between Lake
Bennett axil the Yukon-Alaska boundary I will pay trm $5 to $10
each, according to sax, age. and condition, and will taka ^

you can gst during the present season.

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Ur* J« B. Moarat

Chiyrbalt

Tia Qallupv Neur Mexico.

Dear Sir:

Bo you knoir of any one who has the skull of a
Qtizzly from tha Ohusca Uts* or any other raiiges in Neir
Mexico or Arixona? Or do you knour of any Indian or white
hunters who raiglit secure a Grizzly Bear by hunting in the
CShusca Mts? I should be glad tO pay from $5 to $15 each for
skulls of Grizzly Bears, according to sex, age, and condition,
provided the locality where they were killed is known* And I
could pi^r $60 for a good skin fit for a museum specimen^ with
its own akoll. The skull should not be mutilated. It is
anougji to out off tha rou^ flesh and remove the brains throi:igh
the natural opening in the back of the skull without injuring
the bone* Tha skull Aould then be dried in the Open air, but
not in the sun* Skins for zmseum purposes should have the
lips, ears, and claws attached, and should be well rubbed with
salt* After a couple of days the salt may be shaken out and
the skin dried in the shadSt after which it is ready for
shlpnent#

Do you think you can help me to obtain a specimen or
two, including as many skulls as possible?

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Western R«"5IJ,2^iS!%io.

My dear }tr. Mather:

Hav. you «5r stall, of Griizly B«r. wMch you
would b, willing to lo« m. for a .hort tl™? K .». kWlT
sMp ^ «pr«.. ol««« ooUect. addra...d U. S. Biological
Surv^. Dapartooat of Jteribulturo. Wa.hl«gt«>. V.<1. A ibA
of foUod n«.pap«- .hould b. jl«e4 *^*"« *. j»r. to
pr.T«>t injury to th. tarth by jarring, a. Baar- . t„th

are very brittle.

1 m mklng » gr«t .tfort to oo-^leta m, woA

on to Big Bear, of ta«-ioa during th. ocmlng y.«. and »

,xtr»..ly »nriou. to ... " ™ny '^^ " »«"''''''• ''
,ou o«. ...Lt m. in thl. «tt«. th. fa«r will h, er.atly

appreciated. / -,• ^

I waa sorry not to see you at the recent dinn*

of the WilderneBB Club in Philadelphia.

With "beat wishea.

Very truly youro.

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Mr. Robert H. Uihlain.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dear Sir:

Hav9 you any skulls of Grizzly Bears which
you would be willing to loan me for a short time? If
80t kindly ship by express, charges collectt addressed
U. S. Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.O. A pad of folded newspaper should be
placed between the jaws to prevent injury to the teeth
by jarring, as Bear's teeth are very brittle,

I am making a great effort to con^lete my
work on the Big Bears of America during the coming
year, and am extremely anxious to see as many skulls bb
possible. If you can assist me in this matter, the favor
will be greatly appreciated*

Yery truly yours.

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Dear Sirs:

The Chevrolet Motor Co. pf Flint, Michigan,
h€LS just attached one of your Dewey Tire Pumps to ny
Chevrolet 6 car, which has just been returned from the
factory* On atten5)ting to inflate a tire with this puirqp,
I find that 15 minutes are required to bring the presaire
up to 90 lbs. and th^t to gain 5 lbs. more nearly doubles
the tfaie, and there seems to be no possibility of gettii^
the pressure I require, namely 100 lbs. —my tires being
36-5. The pump is new. The hose and valve connections
seem to be perfect, at least I have not been able to find
any trace of a leak arywhere. What shall I do? How much
time ought to be required to attain 100 lbs. presaire?

Respectfully,

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Datr SMior Rotbran:

Tho fiaai^ akoll ihieh you ware kind anoi:^ to
tmd irrircd tl^ momlig. it Is not a CMssV* ^ <^
BUdc Bear df tlM Wiy^"ll STOoPt «aA is a Tary fina

adnlt mala. Ihalra «iit hKra baaii a traoapoaliioii of
labals. ai thla iknil narar omo from tha M^eina Bar
rfgioiu I am ratuMdqg. it to you ^f iaqproMt prepaid ,
today, wai am oltligad far your oocartaaj in tha md^tmr.
I am obliigad alaa for your kiod off iar to loan other
apaaimeoi, and ma ll£ay to b^ ml^iky glad to eaU on
yoa idioB I ma at vark on otlM

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/^ ebaliava thai 'Bearaaara for aalt ^^ ^hft^thay e««r ^dait
: < .aalt UcM onleoa It be'fcr the pirpoaa of 'aeetarSqgp^Oaar
>-\^ atfasr gaaa ttdtaala ahlflh frataaDi.«ha lioka.o.t >^r^:
e:-^;.^ 'f^-*^, i'"-' Jaara. pa yriii Anibtleaa knqiy.aw^imitha main
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Bardon ogr delay in replying to yofixr li
Uansh 20« . .[ n *% . c .

-01 7L The tronbli is that of alL the access^
prof tMlOB the ibotcgrafSia mre the nioat^.inaeoeei
h4T* so^Haqr atgactiTM :«ad irints that tht labor of elMftify<
ing thfls for roAijr'rafaranoe hai ba«n .(Inferred 'froa tino t^
'itltfe^ iad . I .fear mat be jpixb off for another year^ T liaTe
tried to.fioA tini to pidc^vtft acne 'n^gatlTea and hare en«
largoMotainadettat prwiui'e of other. leait era haa inde thia
iapMsfbl*^ koA iMK'li.i« too lata.

km an offaai, I hara aalaetad a fm trcm « email
aariaa of California «llargo*aiita, iriiidi I peraamJly prlsa i
kaap at tha hooaa to ahor to frlanda. I am aaniii^ thaaa to
yoa (80 in all) \j roglatarad aall horaaith, and ahall ba
oiaigad If yoa will kindly ratum than after the ahoa ia
OTor*

Rogratting ny Inability to aae the ahoa, ahloh
I knov will eootaln lau^ artlelea of Intereat, I raaaln,
vlth beat wlahaa,

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ny inqaiiy about your wcptafimadm with Bear* on 1^^
Kami* I did not knov that yoa and others of joor
party wora about Vo publish a book. This U ^<A non,
and I ahall ba gUd to gat ho2d^ tha Boar mattaridion
tha book ooaas oat. ,,.,.,.

It is good to knov that yoa< io^aoi to Tislt
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plaanra to ahcwlng yoa sqom of tha matarial in our v

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Jtoilon Biy deW in E^^^^ »* ^^^^ ^^^ ®^
^^11«: I have baon trying to cloaa up the Sri* aly Beam
first, and did not get at your skulls until this morning.
• V'' -■ Oa coniparii« them with Bpeoimens in our National -
(Collection, i find them of considerahle interest. With
your consent therefor.. I should like to keep Ihe .imllar
6f the two. and will ratum the larger to you by ..prees
tom*Vow. Both of these animlB are inwatura. Tnere is
not met. differer^a in fl.e .iza of the sln^ls, but the er^Har
<,„e appears to be the ^e. In other words, the tag. .e« ^
^to ha . be. tr^^sposai. Quit- l^^J t^- ^^ ^^^ "^^^
on. before cW^ was laxg-r than the ^^ - ^^^//^f
™ach differanca in the siz. of the stoalls. Th. mles of all

« -f.,. *B I Ktt sware. hav. larger canines
T«jr American Bears, so far as I Kttsware.

than the fa«las. ^a -olars also are scmeshat larger in

the male*

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Ifir. ¥. L. Lanigan,

F«rt Defiance, Arizona.

Dear Sir:

ira you in a position to oVtaln skulls of
&rl22ly Bears fran Indians or from fbite hunters or ranch-
man? I am anxious to obtain some ffritzly Bear slralls frctt
Arfaona and Nar Mttloo, and would pay a good price for all
I can get hold of. I should be glad, to pay from $5 to $15 mA
for skulls of Orlszly Bean accordii« to sex, age, ani coniition,
provided the locality vhera they were killed is knoim. And '

I could pay $50 for a good akin fli for a musein iipecimen,
with its OTO skull.

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a tag to each one stating the sai. locality whve killed,
approximate date, and the nane of collector, or your own
nama, and ship by eiprees. ohaiHes collect, addressed U.S.
Biological Sunrejr. bepwtment of igriculture, Washington ,D.C.

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ahill ia pf spacial intarwt« balq^ tha only ona of a Griasly
c>:£j hart aaan from Toxaa. I ahould t^iarafora lika to purohaaa
ylt from you if you are willlpg to aall it* and praaari it
to our National IfuaaiBu If you ara willing to part with it,
I ahould ha glad to pay you $30 for it. Kindly 1 at ma knar
If I may do this«
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Dear Sir: ^

Mr. Jaraea T. Jardine, of the Foreat Service, haa
written you that I am eocceedingly aiacioua to obtain specimenBt
particularly akulla, of Griazly Bears from Oregon. 1 ahould be
glad to pay firom $5 to $25 aacb, according ta sar, age, and
condition, for all the Grlxzly rikullB yOu can obtain for me,
provided you knoir nhere they were Icilled. It is most farportauA
that each specimen he labeled with a tag stating the locality
^here it was killed, the sax, and the approximate date.

Should you kill any arizzliea yourself during the
spring, I should be glad to pay for adults of either sax $50
each for skin and skull. The skins of course should be conqBlett
with claws so that they magr be used as musenn specimens. They
diQuld be fleshed and well rubbed with salt, after which they
should be Iblded and kqpt in a cool place for two or three
da3r8, when the salt should be shaken off and t?ie skin dried
in the shade without stretching. As soon aa dry it should be
shipped to ua along with its skull. Mo salt should be put on
the skull ^ and skulls need not be cleaned except by oottii^
off the thick fleah and tongue and removing the brain throoj^
the natural openings Tha skull should then be dried In the
open air, but not in the ann.

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"hand corner, anrl addressed U. S. Biological Survey, Department

of Agriculture, Washington, D.^\ A few tags are inclosed
herewith. ' - ,

Do you know of any skulls which you could purchase
for me either in Oregon crldaho? Grizzlies used to be cannmon
in the Sevan Devils Mta. across the ritrey, but I have never
seen a idcull from there.

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and then folded and allowed to lie for two or throe days, whan
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return from the coitfer«c» >A uuford. 'noiroen

Delmmre, which I Infar'f^om yoSa^^^^^
wUl be ehorW «f^*^ i^e'9«^ Inetant.

Oar howe eddrese ie 1919 - 16th
Street. If yon o«ne direct from the
•tation. take the car maAed Rod^e*
Bridge, which paaaea dirwrtly in front of
ttie .tation. wxA get off at the corner of
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Dear Sir:

Have you any ekulls of Grlazly Bears on hand, and

if »o. do you kn«r irtiere they ware killed? I am aniloua to
purchase as mny ariwly skulls as I can get hold^of during
the present season, and will pay from $4 to $10^or all you
can get. provided eadi one is tagged with the locality where
it was killed, and appro*4nate date. A few tagp are Inclosed

Skulli should be boxed and sent by expreee, marked
(Jhargea Collect, and addreeaed U. S. Biological Sunrer,
B«pM^^mMl^ of Agrlcultaro, Vaahlngtorit E.O. Your cwn name
(^ould be writtwi oh the upper left hand comer eo that we
may know irtiom they are f roa.

If you have any akulls on hand at the present tlmOt
please sen! them at once without wait In? for others . and send
others later as you can get the IndianB to bring thara in.

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B.p.rt«,«* of iteri-ltwo. 1^bir«to„, D.O. Your o« »™
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n.y knot *ho« thv timtrm.

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Dear Sir:

IfTo A a BkTan WllllansSt ProYlnclal Oama Warden,
wrltM ma that you ara a htmtar and mi^t be in a position
to obtain Sriszly Bear for me« I am anxious to obtain as
maiTf drizzly Baar skulls as possible during the present
seasan, begiiming as soon as the7 come out of their dens«
Haye you any skulls on hand, or do you knosr arqr hunters or
Indians from whom skulls could be purchased? I should be
glad to pay from $4 to $10 each for drizzly skulls, according
to SSK, age, and condition, proridad each is tagged with the
locality where it was killed, s«z, and approximate date. I
will take all I can get at the above rates from aiqr part of
Canada or the western states, provided each one is labeled
with the locality from which it came.

Hare you ever hunted on the west coast country, and
if so, do 7W know any likely localities for Bears?

Specimens should be boxed aWL sent by express, marked
Charges Collect, and addressed U.S. Biological Survey. Departma:
of Agriculture, Washington, B.C. Your own name should be
written on the upper^'lUft hand comer so that we may knot

whcm they are frcm.

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154 llassau Streob. ^,,

Nor York City.

Dear Sir:

Tbaidn for yovir Oatalogaa No. 81 just raoalTed.
Fran this Catalogue I should be glad to pursh&sa the
following:

E.A.Barbar: Language and Utensils of the Modem Utes
Becbrourth, James F. Life & Adventures by C.G.Leland
Bunnell, L.H. Discovery of the YosaEoite, 1660
Curtin, Jeraoilah Uyths of the Uodocs

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DuBois, O.G. The Condition of Mission Indians of So.Oalif. .75

Elnory,17.H. Rotes of Itaeonnaissaaoe to San Di^o
Pramont, J.C, Life, and Public Services by C.W.Uphara
]Rr«atwu«, j.c. Memoirs of ny Life
Jackson, Helen Hunt Glimpses of Oallfornia
Painter, C. \ Visit to the Uission IndlaiM. 1886

Very truly yours.

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Overton W. Prfcat

Colorado Biilding,

Washlngtont ©•"•

Dear Ifr* Price:

Your letter dated March 17 did not reach
me until this noon. It must have taken a very tortuous

course*

Unf ortxanately I cannot answer your question^
•What has Gifford Plnchot done for wild lift^- I have
a vague notion of courset hut when it comes to statlrjg
the thing In hlack and white, my head does not contain the
Inrormation. I would suggest therefore that yon ask Dr*
T. 8. Palmer of the Biological Survey, whOtSo far as I am
aware, is the best inforaad man in America on this subject.

Plnchot* s great work for conservation is so well
known throughout the country tbat you wo^^ld have hard woit,
I suspect, to find any one who did net kno^ about it.

Wishli^ him —and you —success, and regretting
sgr inability to furnish the answer yo^ji wish.

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Mr. C. C. Tigethoff,

475 Piftfi Avenue^

New York City.

Dear Mr* Tagethof f :

Ifach to ngr Mortification, I am still unable
to find any tract of the original manuscript of the
Harrlman-Alaska Kxpedition narrative. I have now
hunted In every place that I can iHink of where it
might possibly be, but without suooess.

Ihlle, as I wrote you before, I have no

recoil eet ion on the subject, yet the probability is
thidt I sent to each author his original manuscript wiT>n

the 9illey proof in order that he might make the necesss

cooxparisoQS and corrections* This is the usual custom,

and has b een my general practice as an editor* Hence I

feel reasonably ure that the wufioscript of the various

chapters Is o:^ wa-^ in the possession of the several

aothors, and the ohances are that it was not preserved*

Should Mrs. Harriman care to have me do so, I will glad:

write the authors and Inquire If the liianuscrlpt is stil!

aa:tuxt, and if so, would ask to have it returned.

Regretting ny lack of success in this matter.

Very truly yours.

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April 3, 1914.

Mr. 0. E. Warner.

Chevrolet Motor jJo*

Flint, Michigan •

Dear Sir:

Tour letter of March 31 arrived this noorx.

The Weed chains in queetion I myself placed under
the rear seat when I tumea the car over to the Thayer Garo^a
for shipnent on October 15. The following day (October IS)
they were receipted for by the shipping agents, Judson Prelpiit
Forwarding Co, at San Francisco, as you will see by the inventory
bill of ladirg which I sent you a long time ago. None of the
parts entered in this inventory were in the running board

u^^..*^ fimm^ 4av« «««uBOA tlmt the tninir was packed and locked up

at my house before I took the car to ths Thayer Oarage for ship-
ment, and articles in said trunk could not possibly have been
inventoried by the shipping jigent*

The Weed cliains fitted iny 36-5 tires perfectly^ as
one of them was tried on in front of the store where I purclBsad
th«n^ nmely, the Auto Supply Dept. of the National Blectrical
Simply Co, this city. Tliey were nm and have never been worn
on this or any other car, the reason being that before I needed
thoa, they were accidentally left at a garage at Kearney, Neb,
and were ktor forwarded to me to my summer heme at Lagunitas,
California. As a result, I had to wind the hirri wheels with
Jf in. rope when I reached the mud lakes of Hevada. After

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wearing out a couple of hundred feet of rope, I tried to buy
a new eet of chains, but there were none for sale. Then I
had the good luck to strike a kind-hearted strainer at Austin.
Nevada, who loaned me his chains for the rest of the trip,
I retumed tham to him from Reno, Nevada.

It is a great pity the articles in the car were
not checked by the inventory as soon as the car reached your
factory, for now there seons to be no way of tellii^ whether
the missing bevel gear ring and Weed chains were lost in
transit. In which case the shipping agents would be responsible,
or whether they disappeared after raaching Plijit.

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Mr. James H. Vart

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TortB and Service ^eT^%.r^^ent,
Chcrvrolat >iotor Co.

^Intt Michigwi.

Dear Sir:

Tour letter of Uardi Z6 reached me sereral days

ago, but the articles muntioned as mlssii^ from wf car
have not yet arrived*

Herevrith I am inclosing a letter recently received
from W. !• Thayer, head of the Thayer Garage, at San Rafael »
.Oalifornia, who attended to the shipment of my car, respecting
the lost bevel gear ring.

I have also received from Oalifomia and am
sending you here^rith by parcel post 7 of the wheal lugs,
which you sent me to Oalifomia, but which were not used*

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Mr. S. N. Leek, _

Jackson, lyomiiig.

Dear Sir:

Thanks for your letter of the 2d instant just
received. I should be very glad to have you send me
the t»o Grizzly skvills you mention, even though the
unior jaro are lost* Please send by expresst marked
ChArgftfl flollftgt^ and addressed U. S. Biological Survey,
Department of Agriculture, WasMngbon, D.C* Your «m name
ahonld be written in the upper left hand comer, (ki
examiniiTB thera I will send you a check for what they
are worth, and shall be mighty glad to have them* Should
also appreciate your courtesy if you can locate any other
Grizzly skulls for me.

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Ovando, Montana.

Dear Sir:

Thanks for your letter of March X) ■j„o+ • .

T •». ^i.j ^ ._ Jaarcn M} just received^

««r«,M a. s. Blologlori Sm-Tv, D-^a^^ent of
agriculture, Waahineton n n v^

irrlt^ -. 4 1 ^^°"* ^•'^- Y°»^ own nane should be
^it.en in the uppar left hand comer.

K your Black Bear skull, are nob injured, I ,,iii

offer you $1 to $3 each. accanii«. +«

*.«r,^4+- acconlmg to age. sax. and

conoitaon.

I am glad to know that you ara hitaI,, +
^AAn.t ■. - ^ i.iKely to secures

gW t. ,u«>».. th. ^1. 0, ai you ert. Iftat 1, th.

value of a arizzlv skin nn^ * x,

»zxy akin killed in the early spring

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Hr. Aflhlay Hill,

Isabella Street.

Bdmonton, Canada.

Dsar Sir:

Have you on hand any skulls of Qrizzly Baars

or do you know of any one from whom one or more skollB

could "be obtained? I am anxious to purcdmse as many

Srizzly sballs as possible in the near future, €uid

shall be greatly obliged for ajiy infcrciation you can

give me in this line* I am offering from $3 to $12

each for Grizzly sbolls, according to seXt age, and

condition — each skull of course to be labeled for

locality where killed*

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Hr. James 8

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Alberta, Canada.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Louis igassiz Fuertea tells me that you
may have or know of skulls of Grizzly Bears. I ani aririous
to secure as mai^ skulls of Grizzlies as possible in the
near future, and would pay from $3 to $12 each for such
skulls according to seoL, age. and condition, provided
a tag is attached to each one stating the locality where
it was killed. If you have on hand or can secure for me
any skulls of Griazlies. I shall be groatly obli^red if
you will kindly let me know.

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Mr. L. R. Hardin,

Taxlder.'riist,

Uralde, Texas.

Daar Sir:.

Mr. Ponntm writes me that you have two skulls
of Bears ooUectad in your region, and that you have
kindly offered to let a,e see the same. I do not suppose
t:^t they are Grizzlies as you are out of the range of
this species. I should be glad to see than however, even
if they are Blacks, and if you will send them on. will

pay chazTgee both ways of course. If they are for sale.

kindly state price. They should be sent by express.

^rked IIlftff??g ^ftUftct. and addressed U. S. Biological

Survey. Dapartment of Igric-olture. Wash i r:gt on . D.O.

Please attach a tag to each stating where it was killed.

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April 11, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bin^iam, ,
Tale Ifciiversitj'',

Neir Haven, dorm.

B«ar Professor Bingham:

Yoiir recent letter arrived in the midst of th*

annual session of the American Ornithologists* Union, In

connection with which I have bsen ocax^iad from 8:30 every

morning till nearly midnight. Hence "please pardon my delay

in replyiiTg.

It is good that you are goiiig to have seme one

this year who will do what he can in the way of collecting

mamnal material, since everythir^ collected will be of importance
to the MusexM.

It would be well worth while for this mn to eaa«
to Washington, if only for a day. to see how modem inuaeum
material is prepared. If he carjiot do this, he should at
least visit +he imerican Museum of Natural History in New York
^ere Dr. Frank M. Chapman or Mr. Roy Andrews will be glad to
show him how field specimens look when properly prepared.

Herewith I ara sending you Circular 49 of the
Biological Survey, con^.ainlnfr directions for preparing
specimens of large naarials in the field, and I have asked
Cerrit S. Miller, who has charge of the National Itiseum
Collection, to send you his dir act ions and to write you

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merely add therefore that dvary specimen of rmmoal, akin
or akull, particularly akull, is worth aavirig^, and that a
oonaiderahle proportion of the mammfiJ.8 of the region may be
aaqpected to he new* The Andean Bear is one of the special
desiderata t and akulla of both sexes and varioTos ages should
be secured if possible^ And it might be aided ^hat of all
species including the canmonest a number of skulls should
be collected whenevar possible in order to show the range
of variation in the species.

Tery trrly yours.

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April 11, 1914.

John H. Saga. Ssq.

Secretary, American Omithologiata ' Union,
Portland, Conn,

Bear Sage:

Inclosed is the suiieialiiignt respecting the
preliminary ballot for Fellows adopted by the Pell are
at the recent in&eting of the Union. Of course it will
have tc be made to fit in with the ameaJmonta proposed
by Batchelder and Stone.

Sorry to have seen so little of you durir^ the
meeting. It seems a pity that cocmittee work should be
undertaken iranediataly on adjournment of the business
maatiryQ, thus depriving many members of the annual
opportunity to get together Informally.

With best wisaes.

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a« inner unmarked envelope, and a return . '*

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frm the names in ncMin«+i-«« ^ - .

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th« original sealed wvelores tn +>, + i,
the Pr^^H. ^ .. «^aiopes, to the iaUar^ appointed by
the President; said tellers shaU open and count the balllts
and only such r^es as have received 15 or more votes on the'
preliminary ballot shall be balloted for by the Fellows and
llaabers present at said meeti:^.

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Dear llr. Porman:

Ifciny tl-ianks for yo-or covj^.3Bj in colling my
attention to the Bear skullB in possession of Taxidermist
Hardin of Uvalde. I have written him to borroir the
skulls, and shall he very glad to see thecu

Tery truly yoiars.

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Dear Kr, Qrirmell!

Tour latter of Uardi 2S arrived a day or two
after I had relied to a siioilar letter from Professor
Barrows, a copy of which is inclosed hereifith for your
information.

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At the recent meeting 1 read the latter from
Professor Barrows, bat the project to meet in California
-in AqgUBt did not rec^iro a sir^Je Tt)t«* On the other hand,
it was decided by unanimous vote that the nert meeting be
held in San flrancisco about the m^le of Hay 1916.— th#
exact date to be fixed later after consultation with you
as to the tine that would probably give us the best
attendance frcra the Cooper Club.

^Tou were elasted a mambar of the Council, on the

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My dear Sir:

K^B for your latter of the 6t*i ii»tant

atout a curiouB hairleee seal nhich has recently come

into your poBBeasion.

I never heard of a hairless seal, and cannot
imagine what tiie trouble is. I am also a-tonished to
learn that the nail, on the front flippere are fulky

2 inches in length.

If you will send me the skull (rou^y clean*
and dried) I shall be glad to identify tha species for
you, and will of course return the specimen and pay

charges both ways.

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Dear

The books which you were kind enough to send

me a short time ago have all arrived. I will keep all
of than except Wohlgorauth* s Voyage to Oalif omia by
Dietrieh, which I am retumipg by mail herewith, the
other one sent on approval (fah-kee-nah and Her People)
I am retaining, aai have added to bill of $19.50. making
in all $20.50. A check for this amount will be sent you
from the Braibhsonian Institution in a tern days.

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Albcuoy, H*T«

Dear Sir:

The books whi<* you were kind enou^x to send

me a ehort time ago hare all arrived. I will keep all

of than except ¥ohlg«nnith»8 Toyage to Oalif omia by

Dietri^, whidi I am returning by maU herewith, the

other one sent on approval Cfah-kee-nah and Her People)

I am retainii«. aai have added to biU of $19.50. making

in all $20.50. A check for thia amount will be aent you

from the Smithsonian Institution in a few days.

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Lockhart k Tbm%

Stdamboat Sprii^t Oolo«

Dear Sirs:

Have you any old skxills of Orlszly Bears on

handy or do you knoir of any one who has? I am anxious

to obtain as many as possible for our National Museum

Oollectiout and am willli^ to pay from $3 to $12 each,

according to n&r^ age. and condition, provided the

locality is knovn where each one was killed.

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Mr. J. Q. Miles.

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Dear Sir:

Tour letter of April 4 came several days ago,
and the 3 Grizzly i^kulls have now arrived. Hone of than
are tagged to show the locality where they were killed.
Tour letter states that Ho. 1 was caught in a trap in
Colorado, but you do not say what part of Colorado. This
is the skull with all four canine teeth chopped out «- not
broken in a trap. Mo. 2, the only complete skull, is a
young male from Bighorn Mbs, lyoming. 9o. 3 fa the small
flat skull with the lower jaw missipg. There is no information
either on the skull or in your letter as to where it came from.

4nd you have not yet answered n^ previous question
as to where the two cubs whose skins you sent were killed and
when. These specimens are for the scientific collection of
the Rational Miiseim and are worthless unless reliable
data are furnished for tham. I will take them if you can
furnish the data; otharwise they will be returned.

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Vr. frank C. Pallett. ^ . ^ .

State Inspdctor of ApiarieSt
Atlantic , Icmu

Ws^ dear Sir:

Rsplyii^ "to your latter of the 6th instant,
I regret to say that iiiy handbook on the Haoinals of
North America is not likely to appear for seme time*
I am YiCm hard at work tryirg to finish a monograph
on the Big Bears of America, which I have been studying
for twoiity-three years, and am having great difficulty
in obtainirg enough skulls to admit of working out the
characters and ranges of the^yarious species satisfactorily.

Thanks for your paper on Food Habits of the Skunk.
I an always interested in master of this kind.

Tery truly yours.

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Talentine, Texas.

Sear 8ir>

Tour reply to my letter about your Srizzly

skull is at hand. Fifty dollars Is a pretty steep

price for a skull » bat. as I am anxious to have it

praaervad in the Rational llaseum OoUection, I will

meet your figure, and a chedc for the amouirb will be

sent you shortly.

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Wed Msnaall, Bag.

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Horth Vancouver, B.iJ.

Dear Sir!

Tour letter of the 8th inctab has juat wrrived,

ard I hasten to reply.

I fear that I failed to make it clear to you in my
last letter that I want ttriazly Bear* fron the^^oast strip -
not from the mountains of the interior. I have at least a
dozen (Jriazlies from the Stikine Biver country, and have skulk
from both North and South forks of Stikine, from Klappan Mt,
azsl from the Sease Lake region and Cassiars. the Bears of tha
%per Stikina are entirely different from those of the coast
strip, and it is the ones of tha coast strip that I particularly
want. Ihe best places for th&ri would be the covmtry about
the heads of the various inlets, and doubtless ftita Inlet,
the one you have selected, is a likely place.

In accordance with yo\jr request for an advance
grubitake, I have just srired you by West sm Union Telegraph
Co. $50, and tr«t this will have enabled you to a«t out
without waitirg for the receipt of this letter, which you will

find later.

I shall be glad to heeu* fraa you whenever you have

a chance to .Tiail a letter.

With bb*.st wishes f ,or a successful hunt,

iTery truly yoiirs.

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April 15, 1914.

Irnest ?. Walker, Isq.
U. S. Fif^erfes,

Wrangell, Alaska.

Sear Sir: ■*

Judge I. P. Lynch of Wrang6ll has given me your
name and tells me that you are traveling a good deal and
might be able to wsist me in securing skulls of Oriszly
Bears. I am anxious to Vt^ as mwQrskulls as possible of
the Orizzliea and big lro«9l Bears of Alaska and British
Columbia, and am jwilling to pay from $3 to $15 each, according
to age, size, aod seoc,. each skull of course to be tagged
with the locality lAiera it was kUled., If you can assist
me in this mtter, I shall be greatly obliged.

While glad to get skulls from any part of Alaska
and from the coast islands. I particularly need them from
the coaat strip of the mainland from Prince William Sound
southeasterly. Bears from Glacier Bay, Lynn Canal, and Taku
Inlet are especially desiraUe.

The speclioens received go into the National lusetim
Collertion, but are not paid for out of government funds, so
tl»t there is no complication in this line. In case you
secure any skulls, please send by express.
addressed U. 8. Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. Toiu- own na-ae should be written in the uppe
left hand corner.

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:r rx)r:|iMiy,thankf |pir/>y^O|fr lg;^ter^af t^« 4th instant

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baii a BlcuJlif4i|Hafe. I /Au^ld^ b^ otJLigad^fyou will
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«»• prloa on trissl** I gara you in ny last latter,
-»ly. 16 to $26 ea«h according to age. s«r. and condition.

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IToll you kindly I'd^ ma Irnov whid^ tha (fifficulty ia,
apflt whan tiie Voluna W likely 1i^o ajipearf

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The Unistflr of tho Interior

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I em Bisdous to procure tbe beet and
moet recant aqp of Btritieh Ooltabia, and aleo
the beet lazge general map of Oeneda. If bxmA
mape are publiehed under your direction end you
will kindly hare me Infoxned ea to the coat, I
will remit the amount by return laiil,

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Br. Oomalius 0. Coaklsy,

59 Vest 56th Street,

Weir Tort City.

Kjr dear Doctor Qoaklay:

Tour letter of the 14th instant has just
come to hand, indosir^ copy of your letter ^t* the
6th Instant addressed to the Secretary of igriotaturd.
I know nothiiTg iAatav«r of this matter, but feal that
you hwn not allored sufficient time for the rv^j,
since only a weak had elapsed between the date of
your letter to the Saoretary and your letter to me.
©fficial letters which require reference to bureau
chiefs In the goverment ssrrice are liable to del^«i
HoreTer I will gladly refer your lettar to the Oiirf
of the BiolQglQal Surrsy, who will doubtless writ*
you in a few days.

With best wishes for a successful hunt,

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Xr« Henrv Y» Henahairt

uhidf , Biological Survey.

Yashir^on* D«C«

Dear Itr. RotifthMr:

Dr. Cornelius &• Coaklay, of 53 Wast 56th Street,
Yeir Tork. has just sent ma the inclosed copy of a letter
writteSfiJbhe Honomhle Secretary of Agriculture with
respeet to a proposed hunting trip in Alaska* I therefore
refer the matter to you«

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tt*. Oaoiol H. Hoahall.

154 Hassau Siraet.

V«r York City.

Dear Sir:

Thd books ordered by me oa April 2 have

all bean received, but no bill aoconipanied the shipment

Will you kindly send bill coTerlqg this order?

Tery truly yours.

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Stqperintendenbt Batimal Zoological Pkrk,

. ISftshingtont D.C*

Dear Doctor Baker:

Bkr. Alezanier Qrafaam Bell has a mmber of

f Qfur«4ioziied ffiieep. In speakiqg about them recently

he said that if the Zoo would like a fm to put on

aochibitioii, he would be glad to donate thanu

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Kev York City*

Dear Prof cesor Homaday:

Sr. Alazaoder Qraham Bell told me ,a short
time ago that he had a small hard of four-homed Sheep t
and added that if the animals would he of interest to
some of our leadir^ Zoological P^ks* he woald be
glad to present some of then*

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U« 8« lational Museum,

liuhipgton, D«C«

Dear Doctor ffldley:

Ihe inclosed letter from 8« 4« lillieBn
cf Rawlins, looming ^ seems to hit you harder th«n
it doea me* I therefore take pleasure in referrii^
it to you*

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Rawlins, looming. '

Soar Sir: -/;-..

r: Tour recant latt«r with r^ect to a fossil
Jaw with t a 3th I have raforrad to ae. Oidley, who has
Cham* of tha fossil bones in th/ fatioaal Hiseunu
SoubUsBs he wUl write you wi^ respect to the same.

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he will not be able to accept
the tan^tipg invitation of the
Bresident and Kanibers of the
Ansriean fhilosophioal Society
to dine with them at the
Bellsnis-Stratford Saturday
ereniqg, i^ril 25.

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Reeaardh Laooratory,

Bochastsr, N.Y,

Dsar Sir:

Replying to your letter of March 30, askii^
for photograjjhs for exhibition at the Royal Photographic
Society of Oroat Britain, I regret to say that oiring
to the rather inacceaeible condition of my negativeo,
and the pressure of work I shall continue to be under
unta I leave for California, it will not be practicable
to send anything.

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9rotBBw r Hiram BiiTgham^

Tale ttiiversity.

How Haven, Conn,

Dear FrofeeBor Bii^gham:

Tou did a good thir^ in aendins Krdis on
here. I missed him the first day, hut had a good
talk with him yesterday, az^ Oold}iian, on j of our
most experienced field mm, showed him cur mammal
collections and methods of preparation.

Irdis strikes me as an intelligent
energetic man who is likely to accomplish important
results.

With best wishes,

Tery truly yours.

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April 17, 1914.

lfr« J« W* HcFarlandt

Bdlla Cocda, B.O*

Daar Sir:

I am most aiixioioB to obtain skulle of

Orizzly Bears from yoiir region, and ana informed by your
friand, T. ¥• Taylor, that you might be able to assist
TDS- in this matter. I cun willing to pay frcm $5 to $15
each for skulls of Grizzlies from the Bella Coola r^ion
(cmd in fact from all points on the coast of British
Columbia), according to sax, size, and condition, and
I shall be {rlsd to take as many as I can get at these
prices* The skulls need not be boiled* It is enoiy^
If the roTjgh flesh and tongue are cut off and the brains
taken out t'lrough the natural opening in the back of the
skull. The skulls after drjdng should be securely packed
and shipped by express, marked g]iflrp;?p QfflJ.Qct. and addrei
¥• 8# Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washintston, D.O. I am sanding you a feir tags in a separal
envelope, lach skull should be tagged with the locality
wher# it was Trilled, and the sex when known.

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Tery truly yours,

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April 17, 1914*

Mr. T. W; Taylor.

around Hog,

Tla Hazelton, B.C.

Dear Sir:

Many thanks for your letter of March 29 just
received. I m obliged for the address of your friend,
J» W. McParlane, and an writing him today at Bella Coola,

I sm glad to know that you are hunting in a
country where Preble was last surTrier, and hope you will
succeed in securlr^ sorro Srizzly skulls.

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Kr. Joknl. Hailliard.
300 nront Streeit

San FranciBcOv Oalif«

Dear Ur. Mailliard:

Tlmnka for your 1 attar of the let instant.
I am glad to kncm that the Icadomy^s nem build iiig is
well under way, and tlmt you have met Dr. Ivarniann.
Ihile I was not a 8i;3)porter of Dr« Kvermann for the
position of Director of the kcadmr^^ nevertheless I
know him to be a tremendous woiicer and a man of hi^
ability, scientific attainment, and great perseverance^
I believe that he fully appreciates the needs and
possibilities of modem museum work, and am sure that
he will moke every effort to succeed* Personally, as
you of course know, I shall be only too glad at any
time to do anythix^g to help the Aoade'ijr.
With best wishes,

Tery truly yours.

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Dear Mr. Cbrosvanor:

IfeiV thanks for ths bound

tolon© of i\B ffacgraphlc ligazind for

1913. It Bijraly is a most attractivs
and valuable publication, and contaim
a fund of allustratiwi anl information
which will be of nearly as much interest
in years to come as at the present time.

With best wishes , and
congratulations on your continued
success with the trasazine,

Very truly yours.

Ir.

Gilbert H. flrosvenor,

■ational Oeprraphic Society.
Washington, D.C.

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his inability to be present
on Wednesday evening,ipril 22,
to view It. Oarl S. Akeley's
naphant Studio and model of
proposed African Hall.

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Mr. Henry ¥. Lanier,

^^' '^^lot. Maine.

Dear lfr« Lanier:

Tour letter of the 11th instant is a suirrise
to me, afl I siippoBod that you were still in Hecf York, net
having hoard that you had retired.

The subjects you are interested in — -aigration
and the homire instinct -I have not given much attention
to for the past twenty-five years, and am not now in a
position to personally aid you in the preparation of a
bibliography, for as you perhaps knew, I resigned from the
Biological Survey about four years ago*

I am hof^ever pc^sinp, on your request to Professor
¥• ¥• Cocke of the Biological Survey, Professor Cooke is
our sjroat authority on Bird Migration, and has, I think, a
bibliography already prepared* At all events, you are likely
to hear from him in the near future.

I am glad to know tlaat you have a camp in Maine.

I also now have a country home, but it is far distant from

Maine, being in the redwoods at Lagunitas, California. Last

year I took ny family from oiar Washington home to California

by automobile, and expect to repeat the trip the present season.

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Washington, D.C,

Dear Professor Cooke:

Mr. Henry W. Lanier, fonnerly Iditor of
Everybody ••^Magazine, writes me that he i« «uiJcioxA* -to
obtain a brief bibliography of the more important papers
on Migration and the Homing Instinct. He expresses a
willingness to pay for clerical labor in havii^ the titles
copied. Believing that you have already prepared a
bibliography on Bird Migration, it occurs to me-^'Unat you
might be able to salect from it the more tiiportaiit titles
from the standpoint of an intellif;ent non-professional
student, aixl have the same copied and sent to him. His
address is Lanier Ca^, lliot, Maine.

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C. J« Lundfltron! Mfg. Co*

Little Falls, N.Y.

Dear Sirs:

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Thahtca for your letter and the manuscript \fj
W« E« Clyde Todd, cimcemiog his trip to the east side of James
Bay* Ihe manuscript, while hardly of the character needed for
the Greographic MagasinSt is neTerthelees of a good deal of
interest from the natural history standpointt and with a sligjit
amount of editing wotild make a yearj readable introduction to
the special chapters on the mannals and birds « which I a&siMe.
he has already prepared.

The facts secured on the geographic distribution of
species along the east side of James Bay make^ecessary to diai^e
this part of our faonal maps and raise eoibarrassiqg questiom
as to the direction of the orerlappii^ boundary between the
Sodscnian and Canadian Zones in the interic^ on the east side
of Budson Bay. It is also very desirable that field work be
contimed farther north along the coast.

I should therefore faror another grant to Todd for
the contianaticn of his work, and cannot think of any way by
#iich a smaller stm than $1000 could be spent to better stfivantage.

It seas to me that the restalts of both trips shouH
be combined into a single Tolume, #iioh ml^t be published by
the Society as one of its rMeardi Tolumes. Ify suggestion

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would be that th# lilawaxy and CNnsral Ihrrativa of tho
aoe<»l «ipflditioii tdlm tbo Bmnoscript you haTo Just sanjt
odt ^^ l^t this be in tiini follovad by tho taofanical diapters
en tho manimlB and birds «-» these to cot^t the wwk of both
souons in a sin^e systoqatic report*

Todd^s nanoscript I «q returning herewith*

T«ry truly yours^

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April UA, 1914.

8aa nraiM

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Dear Doetor 7an Denbargh:

Tou haTd erary raMon to f»el that I hava nagl acted
to kd«p aqr proeds* In the matter of "wrltli^ you* abooi atool
ahalTiqg and ftnnlgatioB roooa. I madflrfflqulriaa aoon after
■jr return from California /-ind learned that the eteel ahelTli^
In the reptile departeent of the^ i^ev Rati oral lluaetm waa nnda
by the Art Metal Conatructlon Co, Jamaatoan, N.Y. . and thai
elmilar ahelHi^ In other lepartmenta «aa oaide hy the Library
Buraaa. Thla shelTlng ia rf a better qailtty and more
atpanafrV thM tti*'^eap ahelTlnB oaed by ua forlaise akulla.

I deferred writing yoa aboat thla nnkU"»I could
obUln Infowatlon aboat the ftnigatloR rocdHTln the imerlcan
Ifaaeo, of Natural Hlatory. I ha?^be« .pactlng to go to Neir
Toris and «^ theae rooaia, bat thla haa proTad impractl cable
•0 I wrote Dtr lupaa. Director of the Ifaaean. aakli^ him about
^^^^^^ "SO- ^*» raply did not contain the dealred
^9^tHn, ao I wrote him again, imd am l»ftto«li« ^ copy of
Ma raply h«r«lth. Toa aee he la not rery apteiiie. The
iV^ter ii really a very difficult one for it la a aerloua
nBdertaklBg to bulM an air-tight room of any aiae. irtilch

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may be funlgatad without danger to the occupanta of adjoinli
rooms and to the person who first opens the fumigated room*
We hare no room of thia kind in the National Ifitiseomt cmd
I do not know of any ai^rwhere a(ce«pt in the imerlcan l&iseum
In New Yorka

Dr. Srermann may have had axperience aloi^g this
line, it all events, he is a most resounseful iiian« and I
am sure will do all he can to help in the solution of the
probleBa

Regretting that I hare fallen down on it, with
beet wishes.

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Ifr. C9i&rlM R. fSroiM.

100 Ublazid Road.

Brookllna, Uaseu

Baar Ifir. Cross:

Totir 1 attar of tha ITth instant was a pratty
iMtrd blOT, Imt I still h^a thi^ you will \>e able to
raooTsr tha lost photograjftis*

It is practically out of tha question for ma
io re(placa thanit for tha reason that tha negatiTes are
too hard to find* Most of than were enlarged from negatives
taken by me while Chief of the Biological Sunreyi^^re they
form a part of some 15,000 negatives* The prints aeiA
were the best of a small series of enlargamants which I
have had made from time to time for a number of years, and
which I kept to show friends interested tn westex^ scenes*

It is hardly thinkable that whoerer finis tham
would not return tham to you. I am therefore chvishir^
the hope thit they will still come to 11^ t«

With best wishes.

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Secretary of State.

Sacramento, California*

I^ear Sir:

Not quite a year ago I"Veeiured from you a
licanse for ay automobile (Wl4ri\. ). Is this license
good during "the present year; or iotMirt I r«neir it? If
you will kindly infoxm me as to this mattttr, sanding
me new licanse fit ^xaeessaary, mnd mentioit&ig iUeiftfetffit
of the^fw. I irlll ramii by rtftum mall*

Ky car is a, (^^^^nx^^^M^if^ and I eoqpei
to drire it across to Calif eraia ^i^Sfiitn ib June*

' Respecrtfully,

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April 24, 1914.

Ifr. isdrara:

Ttry imny 'tliariks for your Memoir
an the Halifomlft Qray Ihale. I bav* read
naarly the idiole of it with great Inbereet,
mi^A congratulate you on being the author
of ao iiif>oriaiii a contribotion. Ify only
feelii^ of regret in comeetion with it
ecnas trm th* alwenee of a full Imag^
pietvure of the ihale.

¥itli beet Irishes,

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American Moseon of Ifaitural Bistoiy*

Htm York City.

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Jolm ¥• Cadby

50 fibrand St, Albany, H.Y.

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AccowTtaat . Soithaonian Inatitution,

Dear IT. AcUbub:

.- /. Horflirilih I Incloa© ny isaqpenBe acco»mt for
April. amountli« to $7^,27. and the foil wing bills, which
I shall bo obliead i^ yo^ ^^^ kindly pay firom the Harriman
Trust Tund:

Helen Srovar, April salary, $li0.00

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C.O.Pinley.Taloitlno.Texas, ftrissly Bear skull

fycm Tezaa

U.F.Dunbaa, Orando.Mont. Bear skulls

John ¥. Cadby, Bodes, •^•. * •_ \'-

Oadmus Book Shop, 'Robihson:Lifa in OaJif ornia,

original edition 1M6

50»00
16.00
20.50

10.13
19.50

Daniel H.Neidiiall. Books,
and cTf ice rent bills for April ($50.60) and May ($50.55).

Very truly ywjrs.

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Books:

Catologue 167,

lo. 42 Beedifly: California, 2 vols

47 Inory: California

50 Sehaeffar: California

178 RuJifie R.R. Hpts. 13 vols.

100 Indians faxed and not Taxed

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181 Stansbury: Great Sa!
193 Strong: Wah-kee-nah

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Dear Sirs:

Herewith I inclose check on National

Metropolitan Bank for $50, which kindly credit to

my account*

Respectfully,

State Traaairer ,

Sacramento, Oalif.

Dear Sir:

lav.

Thanks for circular concerning nm automobile

Her with I inclose check on Crocker Natioml
Bank of San Francisco for $15 In payment for my license
for current year. Kindly have seal and number plates
sent to me at above Address.

As I do Hot possess one of your blanks I append
herewith description of car.

Chevrolet 6, Style 0
Motor No. 168
Oar No. 178
Oaaoline

Horse P?wer 30 according to Maxvland 1
(cylinders 3 £ )7

Ify winter reside nja is 1919 - 16th Street,
▼aahington, D.C; my suumar residence Lagunitas, Marin
County, Calif.

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]fr. J, C. Hilae.

1T42 BroMMy, ^ , .
Dany«r, Colorado.

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Thank* for your letter of ^il 18,^ containing

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tbe odaaing d«b» for the Bear akina and akulle prafioualy

aant* _. .

One of the alrolla Ho. 3^iiie flat akull without

jar, fran liTiigaton, ItcntaniJ proT«» to ha a Hack Baar

ittitead of a Oriaaly. I h«i nqraalf miatakan it for « fmala

arlazly unbU I removed the ezcalalcr whiph corvjealed the

teeth, when I waa surpriaed to aee that it ia a large male

Black Bear. I have alloMd you $4 for thia akuU, ani $10

aaeh for the twoOriaUiea. whidi with the lUO for the two

yotizc ftriaaly al;lna and akulla firoa Odorado, ntkea $134.00

in all. A ohaok for thia aawunt will be aant you ahortly.

III oaaa you reeaiY* any akulla of QriMlieo from argr
part of Ineriea duriqg the preaent aeaaca,.! ahould be glaA
to purohaaa than at reaaonable rateo.

I do rK>t pare fqr apaoimena of Buffalo, biA would
ai^gaat tlmt you oight be aibla to aell thn to the ImarioaB
ttiBeom of natural Hiatory in Now York Oity, or the Carnegie

liiaeoo at Pittahane^, Pa.

1 do not ki«w wh«ri you can obtain aoalpa for aounting

of arU rtaaiio ^^ twly yoara.

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Dear tirt

T«ry nauy thanka for yoiar kindneaa in aondii^
the; akuUo. OrOy one ^ fe^ tumad o«t to be a arlaalj
thofour othara are Blade B«a>. q^^ ^f than, an old
nale, waa ao large that I ndatook it r«r a f amale Srizzl
until I a^pmined the teeth. Ike other th»«« BLaok Bean
Ymdr no* tagiB. Qan you tall me vfiore th^ ware kuiad, m
about ihat yaart . •

I have allowed you for theae akulla: Taniale &;
hea(hRa1<ara H Poxk Blatdcf dot (back of akull dropped off)
the Uxge old loalo Black Bear front 8 |^ork Ilathoad $4-.0(
the 3 Blaeka without data $2.00 aaoh, aakii^ $16.00 in i
i cheek for this amount will ba eent jtnx in a few dtaye.

X hope that you will b# alide to aacirira one or
Qrissly akulla for lae during tlie preaant aaaaoiSa

Ihankli^ you for aaodiqg tJieaat

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Rodhavfcar, N.T.

Baar Sir:

^ -' " In •nwar to ^car .l»*t«f of Iprll SO. would

.tat* that if you wljl •^'^tJia awa^ ■kina ia qae«tj
(from llaakaiu^ Calif omi*) to tha Moldgioal «urT,«y,
Dapart^t of "Igricaltura, with^*^ raquaat -aiat tbay.
ba ^id«fcif iad and ratunaed to s«tt, tiia mttar will W
takoi up a* onoa. Toar^ ^.^tar *-<«M >a ildraaaed.
H. t.'lianaliw, Chirf of iolpglcia ^^fSTr - "

' CcUeationa Vf thii kind ar a 'idabtif led W*^ ar^

of ua, aa<i6" apaciaJLiat dartiartiining tha apaoimaiia in tha
grov^a wfth i«i^ lia la noet familiar.

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Datr Sir:

Replyiic to your letter of April 27 » would atate
that a laiga naid>ar of photognqpiha of Barry OEUei«r wara
taken by variooB mflD^ara of ^he Han^ban Ii^adition. Soaia
of these ere preferred in the alhoB of the sipedition,
ocpie0 of vhich In this city ere in tht poeseeslon d Dr. Ihu H*
TkXL. Jir. d. K. Gilbert, Dr. JL. K. fidiar, Ur. 7. M. OoriUe,
end qfeelf t any of lAiieh dotfbtleea could be seen by you on
eallipg at the ireeidenee vhieh you oay find moat ocnTenleant.

Vi(BptiTee of the photdgraphe of this glaciar takoi
by flgrealf are in the poeeeeeion of the Biolqgieal Surrey ,
Departeient of Agricnltmret vhare a aeriea of prints nay be
seeiu STa k. Ka Fisher vouU b# likely to knar Jnst where to
pai his f iqger on the particolsr bock containing th(

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Dew Doctor Valcoftt* »

Thanks for your latter of April 30, tranftoitting
» copy of Professor Verrlll^s Itonograph of tha Starfishaa
of tha Worth IhMifie Coast, In "tare yoltraae.

• BqplyJT^ to your iziquiry as to tha ntanbar of
copies to be seni' Jtof as sor Tarrill, I wouM tuggaat 15.

•"^^Tary truly yours.

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SMrttarVf SadthBotiian Instituti^it
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3002 Sast 17th Stroat,

FruitTale, Qalif*

Dear Sir:

Tour letter dated April 24 has jtuBt reached
met leaving been f orwanied froa li^ euzomer hooie In Qalif omiaa
I regret that my abeenoa haa iraada it inq^esible for me
to see the baaketa joa mentioria

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Chief aeogrMphaar, ..._.,

Deparxmeno of the Intarior,
Obtamt, Canada. ,

Dmt Sir:

Yory many thanks f or ypur courtesy in seBiding

ai# your Western Canada nap and the 100 mile nap of Canada*

I shall be very glai to receive your large

8-%sheet map of Canada wiian the same is issued, and inclose

herarith 80 cents in payment for same, in accordance with

your memorandum.

Thankipg you for your coortesy In the matter ^

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Ify dear Ur. Illsworth:

Tour letter with respect to
the Boone and Crockett Club matter came
during the very "busy days preceding my
daughter's recent marriege* Therefore
please pardon my delay ±n replying.

I assure you that I shall he
very glad to act on your suggestion in

the matter. ^

With ^est wishes,

TeiTy truly yours.

Ir. Lincoln Illsworth,

18 East 53d Street-
Heir Tork City.

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Juneau 9 Alaska*

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^ Tary inaiy thanks for your latters of ipril 11
on the Orizzly Bear question* Jkom K^^^Tt -^o^^o^-
m€ntiQnt seecs to be a promising man, tot^iTar b^ond uq;
means, as he needa an assistaa t and a gasolina lannoh^ :
I i-iy •hunter. $150 per month ooveripg eyarythi,«..thv
finding th6niselTes% dth^rwisa I nerar know «hi^ I sm at.

imd am dlft'td'be
of the himt*

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in the matter.

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I . Judice Qunnison has tnritten r^e tha-^ you have

r m nuafcar of Bear ftkulla but thai^L you are not sure iihere

lam anxious to purchase ais many skulls as
Orissly and Broni Benrs fron Alaska, and shoi
eXffii. to p47 firon #5 to $15 each for such skulls,
■^^i^'- vcf^iAi'^h^'hii^i■iJ ♦l«re efch' raViis" kUled is'iiiam.
fl.^rahaOd is glad to g^ t^ani' f jrm iiU potots al,c^ tho

,O0Mi».ai4 also from the ialamta.^. ^Herewith I sp s^nd^
r^ - a/«» tagp^ In o4se you have on ^^ or are able to
. aaoure any skulls from known Ijoealities, please ship sam

Biological Sunrey, Depsrttaanto^f;- Agriculture,^ Wasjiingt on
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_ . - h«A com^ of the w*«6«»

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Thanks for yofur lattor of April ISitl^cii i|u
ftddrasBeid^b me'at the Amerioah liutTdiim of Katural Sli^tcry,
HwTork. Hsr addraes l8 ¥a«hli^oh. b.C* -'^i^^'^^^

I am gliiia t o Tcr^qw that you nata a Bear Bkull on
hand« and that you are in a position to olstain additidnal
8kuU8« I wiU pay from $5 to $15 each' tor^ ekulifl of Qrlz
or Brovn Bears, sccordiiqg to saoct aga«''and condition,

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1 address eau. sTBiblqgfcal ^rvey,'1)^A*tm'ait rf
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.h« iBlanCa; ^*oirjaid ittuOi oni^ niulred vit]
tha locality Jh«f6 mired.

I an porticularljr ^id'diirl/b aaonre ^aeliMQa fron
the coast stjrip of southeasterti Alaska ani Ihritiiih Oolwibia *
anywt^ere from Iit\;7a Kqr southeasterly to opposite Tanoourer
laland*

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he glad to aaqploy you as a hunter foif a month or six weeks
at the rate of $150 per montht you to find youniedf* ^In
^gwe jou car^^to ipiartake a huntipg trip at this rate,
-. pleaser 3..at me know itt once when you will start, ar)d where

you wiah to haye your pay sent*

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of Varoh 16 has just arrlTfldt and I haatan to thad:

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aakad for. 1haa« facta ara axaeUy what I vantad t<

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k£'wa$tm6k9d tLtttuAm, T ahould ha ^ad «lao to Imra am
l^har hunting Inoidacta that oi^ fawra eoma uiil«r your
4»otiea, or of which you hava r aliahla inf omatlon. i^ara Baars
aftar bali^ woundad hara attaekad tha fauntar*

I nota with plaaaratbat joamt^ ^
ffla aoraa Baar akolla^Uctar in tha t

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Itj daar Sir:

Tary vmxtj thanka for your lottar of i^il ]
vrittan fron St. Paul.

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frttB hia about arlasly akulla , HkiE- aa you intlsmta. hf
ia a nd^ity hard oan to haar ttoau •* . ' ' '"^ ^.

- tmm dallghtarf^^ to bfti^ that you ara'tryli^ to
traea tha akuU of a big'H^ar ki£lld by you acna ^ je^ra
ago, and which you baliaTa to ba M Pittaboi^ T^ jlaea
iA«ra It waa killad (ih'nha iJk landUi of lorth Dako^t,.
about 25 fflilaa aouth q^tv^a Vortham Bacifio) ia t&a.iaoat
iiflportant ragioa firon ^r ataod^oin*, aid I acnaatly hc(«
you will atwoaad ia^ebtalniqg tha Q:aoluaa. ia atat^ in
a'^ririoua lattar, I dioold ba only too glad to ac^f^
dnaif akulls to raplaea &:issly akjolla alraadf ooiaitad in.
nga, ^aad to pay a good prlea for tha ikull baaldaa. ^ la

» tha rug waa aant aa with tha akull inaida, I would h«i
tha wtak dona haca^k e«qpat«nt taxidaraiiat, pi^ring o^ac
both waja aa a oattar of coursa.

I know you ara a rary busy man. and will tharaf oi
aiifpraeiata all tba aora yoiv afforta to obtain akolla of tb

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Mr. J. D. AlUn,

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Dear Sir:

Igidn I am irt-it'ii^ to aftk if yt» haTe any okai:

of ari«zly Bean, inale. f«nale. or young, ^ieh ytm'^^ouli

•all or IbaiimB: 1 ^wild t» glad to pay from $5 to $15

6a<^ for Qrissly akollii

Mont«i*^accordifljg to age. tik, and' cortdiiion.
- T.H ^'^^tha isasa of akalla. already nounfced i
T -h«,id ba eted to Bupclt Ibraiar'a dmv alndlB

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pbtaining ame QrisaliM on thia huut^vaod that j\
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Tour lafcter of April 27 has jtist wrrtT
I am glad to hear firoin you •van though you hav4 had n
Ziidc ki huntii«. Ye eaimot ahMya have l\idc with us
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the naioe ct the place where this Brovn Bear waa killedo
KLease write it again in your next letter. I credit) yoM
with |2 for thi s specimen. Tor Oriazly skulks I irlll
always pay a good prict^ no matter how badly injured they
may be.

Ifishlng you a successful hunt^

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Thanks for your letter of kgril 12. I em ^U4

ta know that you l«re the ricoU of ^ lerge &ri.«ly. «l
that you raay \)« •^^ *« o^^»^ °*^^ ''''^* °' Orisilie.
or lro« BeM*. I shall be glad to purchase all you can
. obtain dortog the preset season, snd will pay from $5 to
$15 «fih. acconllng to sex. age. and caditton. todi skuU
Should have a tag tied to it giying the locality wh«re
kiUed, the sax. and the date if rmenfcered. they should
he bowd and shi^ed by eigpress, marked <&arges Collect,
and «ldrM»ad 11^ 8. Biological Surrey. Department of
Igricxature. ¥ashii«ton. D.O. Tour o«n name ind addrewi
ghould be pub on ttxe upper left hand corn* of the package,
I m «endin6- you a few tie» harerith. Please send the skuU
j^ have without waitix^ for others, and if you obiaia

any inor9, ship thara later. *

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Sim Antonio, Teocas*

Ify dear Sir:

Tour latter of i^ril 21 came
several days ago, and I wish to arpress ay
ajpraciation of your court eay In tallii^
ma al>out Lt. Thcn|>aon*8 narrcir aaoape fros
the female Sris^ly whose skeleton you
jroB«nted to the Army Medical Itmsonu I
am always glad to get aothantic hunting
incidents of this sort, and am groatly
ohliged to you for your trouble ta writii^
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May 5, 1914.

^^® 'U. S. National tfjee^S.n

Dear llr. Gearo: .

TharfcB for your lettar of April 2S. teU:

,a th.t at the raqaaet of Mr. J. W. Gidlay you had
pUced nr/ name on the HuBeum's inailing list for
future puhlicatione relathig toToBsil animala".

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Deeur Doctor Yalcott:

Tour letter of the 5th inatant is at hand,
incloaing for my approval bill from the Lord Baltimore
Presg. anounting to $3,054.71. for Betting up, printing,
and binding the pUtea and tflDct of TerrUl's Starfish
volumes. The itan for proof corrections amounting to
$229.20 certainly does seam excessive, but as we have
no cheek on it. I 8Tq)po8e it will have to go. I have
therefore xp^OYed the bill and am returning it to you
herewith.

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Thanks for your letter of the 5th instant,

indosii^ copy of «. latter from Professor Verrill, in
which he stlitas that he understood me to say that 30
copies of th* Stiff ish book would be sent him for
distribution. It is quite possible that this is the
casa. but- sines a ftozsn yean have elapsed since the

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the facta in the oase* and to look up the original
correspondanoo at this late date would be a good deal of

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an undertaking. It seems to me therefore that 30 copies
had better be sent him instead of 15.

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Dear Sir:

Thla morning at quarter before 8 jo^jor coal
wagon Mo. 30, driven by a colored man, ran into my
auttoobile on the corner of 15th and T Streots. I waa
driving south on 15th and therefore had the ri^t of
way* Tour driver was driving ^■■k, and if he had held
in his team just a little he would have avoided striking
my can As it was, the and of the pole strudc the
left side of the rear of the car, tearing through the
side curtain, bendir^ back an iron brace, and injuring
the finish*

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Uvalde, Texas.

Dear Sir:

MajTy thanks for sending the two Black
Bear skulls. I am glad to have these, and inclose
herewith $5 in pajnnent for same. Kindly return

receipt and oblige.

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5C9 Hcmo Street, Bror'T,

New Tork ffitv,

Ify dear Mr. Olailt:

The flra Bear akulla whi<A jou so kix^Jr loaned
me sane time ago I have juat turned over to the Biological
Surv^ to be repacked and ahippad you at onca. prepaid.
Three of than are Hack Bear., the other tiro are female
arizzUea. Qba of theaa. the one marted No. 2. 1. an
important study aknll, and it would be a great pity to
have it mounted in a rug. I am wonderii^ tliar afore if the
owner, whom you tell me is Ifr. fin., r. Coa. would be willing
to let U8 keep the specimen for the National Collection,
subetitutiflg one of Fnuar's durmy skulls, which I ahorjld
be most happy to s«,d you in case he is willir« to have thi.
done. The dwny skulls possess the advantage of h«ri,« bone
teeth which do not era* and go to pieces like Bear's teeth
and also in relieripg the mounted head from animal mtt*.

As I understand it. all of theae spaclmeos wera
killed on the west side of Bighorn Basin in the region of
Shoshone River or toaybull River, or between theae .trean.
The female Oriszlies have been' of much intereat to me. and ^
I am greatly indebted for your courtesy in letti,^ me eaadn.
tham. The delay in returning has be« due tx> two causes: tha
recent marriaee of my dau^ter. and the difficulty in getting
good photograifis of the teeth. , ^

With many thanks,

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Hareirith I Inoloso $3 in payment for annml
du08 and for subseripticn to Imerican lotorlst*

Tour notice waa aMit tc njr auranar home at
Lagunitaat Marin Oo* Oalifomiat idiara I arpoet to
arrive about the end of June*

Laat year you gare me in9po2*tant information ai
to road conditiona; I am likely to aak for a repetition
of the favor toaard th9 end of the preaant month, hj
whioh time I auppoae you will knoa more about the routei
from Waahingbcn to San franc iaco« Laat year I wmat trot
here to the Bedford Pike by way of Frederick and Hugarai
and f olloaed the road which hea aince beaa adopted for
the Lincoln Highray*

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Mr. OhArles Sholdon,,

lobdstook. .

Dear Sheldon:

It i» » long time «inca you so kindly sent ma your

1. X 4« +>.• Ilk KoKinlay region in 1906,
nanuBcript on your hunt in tha Kt. ■OMn^^y ^

«d I m ashamed of mysalf for not returning it earlaer.
ha^a re«l it with great interest, and with your pemisBion
ha^e made a number of erb«cts raUtlng to the arl..lie.

you killed there.

The manuscript strikes me as in excellent font
as it stands; and when you add to it the arpen-ices of your
later trip, it will make a splandid book. I hope you will

coniplete it this sumner.

Since you wel-e here I have received seme
Baar skulls of considerable intereirt. including aeveral adui
f ar-ae. from Colorado, lyoming. and Montana, of winch I had

not previously seen adults.

It is a pity that you had so mich ta do at tha
time of your last visit that we were not aMe to go over

the skulls together. -

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.^11. of male. ^r. pa»e in recently - one a tlree^^arter

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grown mala of tha big PlaiiiB Grizzly; tha othar a aplandid
adult mala from Betas Park, Colorado, of Wia of tha Tollowstona
Park apecias, thus axtanding Its ranga considaraljly to tha
southwarda Tha skull of this tma dif fars scmairhat from the
Idaho and Wyaadv^ skulls, but I do not axpact to saparateit

Savaral othar skulls ara promisad but hava not
arrivad yata

Is soon as I finish ravising tha dascripticrB of
spacias. I axpact to pidl out for Calif omiaa This may ba
tha first waak in Juna, but I faar will be still later.

Tour Manuscript I am ratumirg by axprass as this
saams a littla saf ar than tha mails*

With lova to Irs, Sheldon, and best wishes for a
good season.

As ever yours.

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Ifr. John D. Guthrie. ^ „ j.* i »«.n^o+
fluporvieor, Apache National For est,
Springerville, Arxaona.

Dear Sir: •

A letter just received fron Ifr. J. W, Schultz
tells me that you h»ve a couple of Bear «kull« which he thir-ke
you would ha willir^ to lat ae have. I hope this is the
case, and shall be greatly indebted if you will kindly sand
thoQ by axpreas, marked clmiBeB ccllact, addressed U. S,
Biological Survey, Department of igricultiire, lashirigton, D.O.
Plaase tag each one with the locality where killed, aex if
you know it, and approximate date.

Diaring the present seas on I an trying to coaiplete
a book on the Bears on which I have been engaged for twenty-
three yaars. I should le greatly indebted tiierefore for
any help ycu can give m» in the way of securing sbills,
parWcilarly Grizzlies, from Arizona, New Marico, or any
other part of ihe cormtry. Tor Black Bears I jay fro'O $2 lio
|4 each, atid for Grizzlies $4 to $15 each, according to age,

sex, and nordioion.

Hoping that you will be wlllirg i o assist me in

this natter.

Tor/ truly yours.

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Ilr« Jas. Willard Schultz «
Oreer. Arizoncu

Dear Sehultz:

ThankB for your letter of t}» 6th instant just
received* I mppreciata your efforts in tryirg to aid me in
obtainirg skulls of Beajra* particularly Qrizzly Bears • I
have been wox*lng on this Bear book n(m for at least tv^enty- '
three yeare , and tho time has corae when I must turn the
manuseript in to the printer* For this r«son I am particularly
anxious to get hold of as maiqr skulls of Grizzlies as possible
diirine the present season*

By the way, do you happen to know any one in
Montana who has a ttrizzly skull which I mi^t borrow or
purchase?

It is good to know that you are doiig so well in
your literary work. You have the happy knack of writirg in
a way that is interesting to read. I azn glad also that you
are continuing your Indian work* I have worked a lot with
Indians in California and HevadUi, but do not expect to publish
for some time.

I mn glad to know that your son has turned out to be
an artist. If he can do the Srand Canyon, he -^iU accoioplish
what many an artist has given up in dispair.

. DonH give another thoi^ght to tliat old debt. I wiped
it off the slate years ago.

With bast wishes, y^^, truly yows.

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Itr dear M-niral:

The onlv tajddarcist in.
Washington to be thciaght of in connect ion
with the mounting of a game head is 3. S«
Warmbath, 1110 - 15th Stroet^ but he, I
a^ told, is ayc6fxli>i£ly slomr in finlshirg
his wcrko

Tiid nios:. sa'^-isfactcry taxiderr.^i''^-'
known to me is James L# Clarke 949 Home
Street^ Bronx, !U"- ^ork Oit:%

¥lth host wishes^

Terr traly yoiira^

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Mr. S. N. teek.

Jacks on . ly oming.

Dear Sir: __

Many thanks for the two skulls received. They

.re Black Bears, npt ftri«lies. Can you tell me where
t..ey were killed, so I n*y label them with the locality^
I am inclosing check of $6 in payment for same, and siall •
te obliged if you will kirdly return the inclosed receip..

Kindly hear in mind that I am exceedingly anxious
to obtain skulls of Grizzlies fron your region, and will be
gl«i to pay a good price for same, as stated in a previous
letter. Therefore, ahouldyou secure any skulls during
the present seaaon or leam of any one who has ajiy. I
should appreciate the favor, if you will let me know.

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Mr. John D. Guthrie.

Supervisor, itoache National Forest.

Sisrlncerville- AriKrvno

Dear Sir:

Our letters have crossed in the mails, yours
of the 7th instant reaching me this Tnomir^. The skulls
also have arrived, and I am greatly obliged for your
kindness in seniaT^ than. They are Black Bears, not
Grizzlies. I am inclosing herewith $5 in payment for them.

Tli3 Grizzly sk-ill you gave Mr. Nelson has bean
of much interest to me, and is now on ray table. I am
most anxious to secure additional skulls both from
Arizona and fron New Mexico.

Many thanks for the address of B. Z. lily.
Blue, Arizona, to whan I am writing by this mail. I
suspect he is the rather famoiis bear hunter B, 7. Lily,
formerly hunting in Louisiana and Terafi and later in
Qhihuahua.

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Hr, B. Z. Lily,

Blue, Arizona.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Gu-bhrie, Forest Superviacr at Springerville,

writoB me that a year or so ago you ahot a large Silver-tip
on the Blue Rarjge* I wonier if you still have its skull,
or could procure it* I am arceedingly anxious to obtain
skulls of Grizzly Bears from Ariisona and ^m Mexico, and
am willing to pay from $5 to ^Ib each, according to sex,
sizo, and condition, each skull to be labaled with the
locality where shot* If you have bjjj or kill any during
the present season, I should esteem it a favor if you would
kindly send them to me« They should be well wrapped, padced
in a box, and sent by express marked Charges CoJklect, and
addressed !!• S. Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. Tour own name should be attached to the
tag on each skull, and should be written in the iipper left-
hand comer of the outside of the box..

1 am wondwing if youir middle initial was gi^-en
me correctly, as it occurs to me that you may be the famous
bear hunter, B. Y. Lily, with whom the Biological Survey
has been In correspondence for seme years*

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Knik, Alaska.

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Are you in a position to secure skulls of Bears
from the Susitna River country or from Kenai Peninsula or
Alaska Peninsula? I am t^nxious to obtain a number of skulls
during the present season, and am willing to pay from
$2 to $4 each for skulls of Black Bears, and $5 to $15 each
for skulls of Grizzly and big Brown Beeurs, the price varying
according to sax, age, and condition^ provided each is
tagged with the name of the lociJLity where it v^as killed.
These prices will hold good until December, and I will take
all you can send me at these rates* In the case of skulls
brought in by Indians, please make a special effort to be
sure of the locality where they were killed.

Skulls should be wrapped in paper or gunny sacking,
boxed, and shipped by express marked (Inarges Collect, and
addressed U. S. Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.O. Tour cmn name should be attached to the
tag on mch skull, and should be written in the upper left-
hand corner of the outside of the box. A few tags are sent
you in a separate envelope.

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Ohevroldt Motor Co.

Hint, Uichigan.

Dear Sirs;

Hearii^ a noise in the right front Tibeel of my
Chevrolet 6» «tyle C, No.l78, recently returned by you, I h«d
the wheel r«snoved and found one of the balls missir^ from the
inside cup. Thie j j^ave replaced, but the balls In the outer
(■mailer) cup still make a good deal of noise. Ihey are too
small for the cup, leaTing a space of about i in. when all are
set. The cup itself is worn irregularly, and im rou^ in
places. The laiiger inside cup also is rou^, bst not nearly
so bad as the outer one.

As I expeai %o sek. out for Calif orrjia in a couple of
weeks, I think you had bettar a^nd me two complete sats of cirp
bearings: one to replace the presew-, defectlro ones, the other
to take along in case of troubl^ on tht> road. Tou imy remanber
that one of the balls in liiis same kib broke in two last year
and Injured the cone as weU as the cop, and ti»t you sent ma
a new set of baarli^*

These cone bearinRs in tha front wheels fr^Uo so imxsh
trouble that I should think you would replace them by Tiajikina.

The Gray k Davis Starter haa given ma no trouble ainea
^he first difficulty on the arrival of the car. It woxka
jiffMUy -has never failed -and is certainly a big ImproTa-
««at OTfl^ the old air starter.

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Ohevrolet Motor Co.

Flint. , Michigan.

Ddar Sirs;

Heari:ig a noise in the right front tjheel of my
Chevrolet 6, Style C, No.lVS, recently returned by you, I had
the wheel raaoved and foijnd one of the balls missii-g frcm the
inside cup. Thie J have replaced, but the balls in the outer
(smaller) cup still Qjakd a good deal of noise. They are too
small for the cxip, 1 earing a space of about i in. when all are
set. Tae cup itself is worn irrefiularly, and ia rough In
places. The laiiger inside c\v^ also is rough, fcwt not nearly
*o bad as the outer one.

As I expect to sek. ©xit for Calif or-ia in a couple of
weeks, I think you had better ft,nd ne two complete sats of cup
bearings: one to replace the preeea^. defective ones, the other
to take alone in case of trouble on th«, road. You nay remerabar
that one of the balls in Tiiis same Imb broke in two last year
and inj'jred the cone as well as the cup, and that you sent me
a new set of baarir^.

These cone barinF^s in ths front wheels p;ive so much
auble that I should think you would replace them by Tia^kina.

The Gray & Davis Starter has given ma no trouble since
the first difficulty on the arrival of the car. It woxica
parfecUy -^ms never failed -and is certainly a big inprove-
ment oreT the old air starter.

-m Very truly yours.

Retake of Preceding Frame

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*^f<5E8or Hall:

.Yc'j will note from thio that we we still in

^•ton, and what is wcree.are likely to be here for at
j.$£iflt. two or tliree weeks yet. Ifatteni eormeoted with
Dcrcthy's wedding, and the entertaiimsnt c visiting relative*
on both Bides coneianed a lot of time, wbich has to be nade up
before we can get acTay. I am still paggins at the Bears, aod
have sectxed a good deal of additional oaberial since you were
here. As soon as this is fttlly digested, we «pect to head
oar Qherrolei toward the sattl ng sun.

!Ehe doul of sidnsss iriiioh ovwrahaAora us on
account of the delay has just onebol« la It throuj^ whidi

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we are hoping for a peep of swuhtna. TUls pMp of sunriiine
should CBUMtta from the boson of H. H. Ball, for we cherish
the hope that you will be rax^ to start about the tiae we
are. In which case we shall reserve a seat for yon od the
car. let me know how this strlkee you*

Ye are imieh indebted for the pretty present whiob
you aivi llrs. Hall so kindly sent OorwKhy.

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Wj daar Ftof •••or IKirts:

list ei«xk« ,t«ll« iM th«b you and your tmdlj ar*
«a^^0tiic to driv* your our to Oaifomia. •tartlog •om tin*
in Jm; mA mim^t/U tbat v« laj^ •rraas* to mak9 th« trip
toe«thflr. hmt ••mod I. took ay fnlly to Qidif omia in a^r
Qh«vrol«t 6. and if all fjOM will. I hop* to npoat tii» trip
la. a f«w w^*», laavins J{^»2.»OMrtiar« l»«tw^« tai» 10th and 18
of Jtma. Ifo a^Mt to ooqp nnst of th^ nay •• «• did last
year, aroidiic hotaU so f ar aa praatieablo. % oaa^iris on*
•ata mfmmm in telf . aid n«arly dodblaa th« daQy miloog^.
iMt yoar w vwt %y way of th* %r«rland roato. ahlch haa ain
baw «lavt«d for tho Linooln JL^maf* It ia by all odda tha

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•hortMt roiit#t anA wUl be tha last idm tha roada baT* baac
put in battar oandltiou Ihia yaar hoparar aa «aoh roaA waili
ia Ukaly to ba ^aios » thttb I f aai dispoaad t^ go l>y vagr of
northam Ariaoimt eroaaii^ tha OoLorado at lodQ.aa« Iha root
hovarar viU d&fmod logalj an Inf onnatiQii vhich I aipaoi to
rteaiva in a f aa day* froa tha Jhaarlean Autonobila Aaaociatic
vaanahila I ahould ba glaii to hear trm. you aa to yoiar plana^

vfaaOiar er sat yoQ would oara to taidartaka tha trip or

urt of it in our acB|pa27«

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Xaat y«r wa had an nnnattasflary aoount of tira
treidbl** •■wins doUys anountii^g in tha ag^^^ta to abov
fiiro dqr>: and in lovada v* anguuutarad an -jt^ftfoadimtcd
aviaa of elocd bariU, tho liko of whiflb la not -^t to
oeeor again in ear dqr* In apita of thaaa diffieultiflB, v

aaaonpliahad the joamey in 25 running daya« Zhia year I

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eocpeai to oaka it^ if ve traVai the aana road, in 23 daya;
if v« go hy Arisona, in about 25 days. '

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Saar Sir:

Terr wary thai]k« for your kindnass in telling

aa tha Wolf atory. I 1*t« «ritt«i "by thi* nail to

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TorMt Sufonrisor 4. B. Tiatteraon at Hot SprlnEgi, and

hopo bs can put' «• Jn the way of obtaining at laaat ooo

dir tho •paclmanB. If thoy tuim out to ^o gaooino Wolvei

and nob Qoyotoa, tlie rocord vill b« of mieli iarpcrtanpai

Thahkip^ you f wr yoar court aay in the nattar,

Tory trulj yenre.

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lot Sprtan,

Toliara Ooonty,

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L. A. Btrratt writaa ma that a tr*ppar who
^«t tha wintar naar Jorflan Hot' aprli^ brought in pelta
of 6 dray felraa. a IjB^. Aai » WolTarlna,

Bo ^ott .^aw anjrthing about thia, miA do yoa
i«i4«' ^a infora«tion raliahlat «iat dlapoaition aa^

akinat I ahouM lika Ta»y nodi to pun^a ona
or tiro of tha Wclf akina «d aU tha akuUa if it is pcaihla
to aaeurt th«. and .a waUqg to pay a iib«a prlca for than.

.Tha raa#Qb f olf raoozda. f ran Oalif omia hava not
Urn ad>«rt;antiatad altfiou^ f or aoso yeara I hara nda a
•paelal af fort to obtain akina and akvlla Vron tha Sitfxm
ragloo. . iU w hara aam to data hara tnmad out to' ba tha
la«St awmtain Ooyotf , a tery diff arant anlaal frca tha raal

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ii7 irfonation yea my ciTa oa on tha aubjaet
wiU ba thankfully racairad, and aa atatal baf ora, I am
aatranaly aaizioua to obtain ona or aora akolla.

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Pear Itr. Jardine:

fciy tbarfcs for your It^iw of the 15th instant,
tailing ». of tha br^ In t>,a ilta leadir^ to tlia OriialT
tUIad on tha flah UJc« foraat hear Salina. W;^. fii
Juna 1918. Sinaa tha man *o klUad and aoU tha Baar la
daad, it aaaaa hopalaaa to try to trw»a tlTa apaaiMi
fai4». I ^•ai•X^ v>ar fiSjOMU hmniit in wbUagti^
to locata It and « Tary ««h ohiifjad for your aourtaay.
* ^ tha wy. if rtok io6 «Mh trouhla, could yoo
gira ma'aoaa of *tha tUiTin tha eiaa iff' ^o Baar whlA
attackad a ahoif hardar in Oragon'or Maho a ja«r «r i«ro

r Aa I rmaAar It. ytn *.oU aa *±Mt a big Baar-
•etoally pallad a wui ob* of hia bad, or sonathlng
kixA. Thla, If trua, U of aKtxwirtinaiy intaraai;
I « Tary anxicua to laarn as auch aa poaaibla abet

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Thanka f or your lottar of tha 10th inatant jui
raoairad. Xhara is no doribt ifcatarear about tha skulls.
Tha ooa with tha back part adaaing la ^ old aha-Cb-issl:
Tha naKt lai^aat la an . old mala Blacic Bear.
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aome mora Orissly lYrrills darii^ the praaant aaaaon. ft
jm know or hear of ai^ parson wh» faaa the akull of a .
Orissly, 1 wiah you would bey it for aa, 9r lat me knoa
ao that I oan porchaaa it»

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Ifev Tort Cit.y.

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UMt ye«r yw^ ware kind enou^ to adTi»» me wltft

rosject to the beet ro.de between aere «nd the Pwlfic Com*,
I left about the middle of Jane eril ma 35 ronalng dey» in
rewdiirK the coa«t. fioii« by the route elnce edqpted for the
lisccln Hi^5«iiy. We were greatly delayed io Hevad* by the
unprecendanted condition of the roede, due to a e«-iee of
cloud b«irete w'^ich conyerted the deeert vail aye Into lakee of
edobe mod. T\U condition ie not XlkeJy W occur ee^in in
the near f Utvra, but I asscrae that eo nudr work will be soinc
on during tha present se«ion that a «ur would be oUl^.ed to
n«ke cowitant detoure in order to get thrtw^. For this ration
T m thliAiT^ of the route throu^ nerthern Ari«OT» by wi^ of
AlTniquerqoe, Sprincenrilla, leodlea, aid the Kohve Destri.
I ahw'Id appr-wiate yo»ir edtrice In the aatter. fc a^a It !•
decided to goby Arlaona. I woold like to knw whather the
roale between here end St. Louie are good wxtj^ to warr«it
one in goi:^ that way, or idiether it would be better to go
north from faahinston to the Bedford Pike and tbewa thrw^^
Wttabai^, Clereland. md Toledo, e« we did Uat yew. iny
Informati on ml fdrlee yo^x are able to offer will be t^^artrfjUf
reoalred. »IT0 yoa aiy na» tranecontineobal aagpe ttiie jmxJ

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Sup eriat endent . Y^llowBtona Nati one! ParV .
rort leXlowBtone, Wyoming,

Dear Colonel Brett:

Mow that the enow has gone, I take Vie liberty
tc remind you of the ek-jHa of the Orizzlies whicii ware
killed last eramer, and which you kindly offered to^have
eon© one hunt for wlien the enow had disappeared. I am
jnoet anxious to secure fian for the National Collection.
and should be glad to pay any one liberally for his services
in getting than, or (and perhaps this is the sic^lar way)
I would he glad to pay for than at the rate of $5 each f C5r
young Oriazlies. and $10 to $25 each for adults, according
to sax and condition.

Trusting you cay be able to help me in this matter,

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Hay 16, 1914.

The Game Conservation Sociaty,

150 Hassau Street.

N9«r York City.

Dear Sire:

Your lettar of April 27, addressed to me at
my summer liorae at J^agunltaa, California, ^has just
been forwarded to me hare* I inclose herewitia $1
in renewta of my subscription to the Game Sr^edear^
which please continue sending to Lag'.mitafl where I

will see it short ly-*

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ishlay, Illinois. >

Your lorbtdr of tta. 6th instanfc came sareral

dayfl ago« I am erurprisdd to learn that a Baar was killad

at Indiazmpolis so recently as four years ago. It isast

hare been either a Black Bear or a Bear escaped from some

show* I assume fk^cm vhat you say that the skull is

inside of the mounted skin, in nhich case it would he an

espensiya matter t^ garb It oxxb without injuring the mounted

specimen. The animal could not be a Orissly since Orizzly

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send it to ma I will be glad to examine it and lat you knew
what It is worth. '^ -^

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Mr. R. Bmce,

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Daar Sir: . . j. t -

TharftB fttr yo.jr letter of i>li6 19th insuBTit. I

B^all doubtless *ct on your advice ar^ take the san^e route
I did last year, so far at least as Julesturg; the^ i^ebhar
I tvm south to Denvar and take tbe Sa^.a Fe-Naedlas Ro^ibe,
or confcimt on the Overlaid Trail as I did Ust year, will
depend scms^rhat upon the weather, aa^ what I learn in

Ilehraska*

By the way. I think I forgot to tell yoa last

year that the Davis Garage at North Platoe. Nshraska. ought
to he recQameoded hy the Association. It is one of Vrs
h«t, and has connected with it one of the best repair shops
encountered alon« the entire route, and T^owiiere did we
receive more courteous Vaateiant or more reasonable bills
for services, Tliis was pot only ray pergonal aiperlance
hut tl-at of numerous others along th« road.

You state t!-Jit you have .fast published the book
of tha Overland Trail and th«fc you are about to issue an
sntirely new .nap of t:^ traiisccntinental rcub«. I shall be
greatly obliged ir you will kindlysend we the book anl 2 of
the .n^s. 1^ these I a'n inclosiae hcirewith $2.50.

7ary truly you^e.

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B, F. Ooodrloh Co.

Akron, Cfoio,

Dear Sirs:

Hecantly I have become much interested in
your SUverto»n Tires, but the Washington agent has only '
"dlndiars and do« not think you manufacture straight edges.

I*«t year I had clincher Steftn iny car and did
not like than. This spring I had them removed and substituted
Firestone Strai^t-ftlge^ Last year I used Goodyear Non-skid
No-rim-cub Straight £dge 36qc5. Do you manofactura this
size, or what nizB would carry properly the sane load?
Ify car is a Ohevrolet 6 Style C. and weighs with ny load
for transcontinental trip about 5000 lbs. And what would
be the cost of a set of Silvertown iSasii^s of suitable size?

Cculd such (Sasings be used on my Pirestown rinB,
or would I be obliged t>) chaftge the rims vjain?

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Da*r Mr. Jardina:

Tory mary thanks for your kininasa in wril
Sir- Harris of Wallowa about the Bear incident, and 1
8endii« ma a carbon of the samso I sliall asrait his

reply with ranch interests

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Phil«Ml]ihiat P^

Ifr^ Potter;^

Tour letter Mkiqg aboot the sncir eeme ydetarday^
In the national Ifaseum sereml different kinds of enoir hare
been made, ell of iftiich look fairly well* The oldest one
was made of plaster of Puris sprliided with finely pulTarlsed
mioa« The base of the Polar Bear group in the ]lm IfassGDi is
made of papier-mach#jpainted white -•nothing more.

Vbr. Turner t the haad taxidermist, rectomcnls painting
spriidded with "diamond dtsst* (i^idi is said to le finely
grounl glass). Turner also reconinends sprinkling with su^ar;
then wetting the sugar, after whic3k it orystalises so as to
res6Dible sneer and ice« This probably wcoli give the most
daeeiring raault of any of th« methodt triad h»r«.

If yow are not In a ^eat hurry, I woald adviae
writing to Dr. F. A. luoas, Wrertor of tha Amariean IftMsum
of Hatural Hiatory. Hot Yorit City, pubtii^ tha aam^ queation
to him. In that nusaun thay aeon to have tha'moat up-to-data

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Ifir. Howard Saton,

Volf , Wsroraixjg.

]fy daar Ifir. Baton:

Thanka for year latter of tha 9th instant.

Ton aak me to write you a^ain about tha middle
of June. At that time I eipeoi to he on my imy to California
to be gone until fall. I moat eameatly hope therefore that
you will be able to dig up that big Srisaly afcull eo that
I WKf get a whaak at it before I keaTe. Jtiat at present
I aa working on thaaa partiaular Bean — thoae of the PlaitM
region and Bi^orn and Laramie Ifta, and every additional
Bkull helpa mightily. Only thia morning I got hold of an
•dolt ahe-Chriaaly ftrom old Fort Fred Steele.

Will gire your meaaage to Dr. Palmar and Dr.
riahar whan I see tham. which is likely to be within a few
days.

With beat wiahea,

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Daar Mr. Wgfdns:

Thanks for your latter of tha Uth Instant, and
for your great kiwinass in borrowring and sanding me tha
skull of thtt big Srlssly from tha open country east of
Chayanna* It arrived safely, and is now in tha hands of
tha cleaner* It is a splendid skull, and will be of the
greatest help to me just now nhile 1 am working- on tha
Grizzlies of the Plains and adjacent motmtains —the Laramies
BxA BJ^orm. It is labeled as killed by a man named Younts*
I will write to Vbr. Bradbury about it at onca*

For soQie days I have been intending to write you
about two of the skulls you ^ani me some time ago* namely,
the adult male killed by Col. McOuire on tha II Fork Shoshone
HlTsr, and tha old f anale from Havaho Range near Crano,
Colorado* jQieae two skulls are of unusual scientific
interest and really ou^t to be preserved in the National
TfaLseun where we have considerably more than m thousand
skulls of American Bean. In case it was intended to mount
these skulls inside of the skins, I am wondering if your
museum would consider it tk fair proposition for me to offer
to furnish dumwv skulla made for this purpc^e by Fraaar of

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Bctcm. and to pay the n«i«i„ i„ ««h. to be e^andod
m cormectlo: with It. vork. $25 f<r the f«a. tfcull and
^60 for the nale .kull, I think you will not mlau^ie^sta^l
ma in thia oattar. if your r^e^ were trying to make .
•P«»l«l*3r of Bewa. I .haild not &ink of ««ih « thing aa
«king thie apsgeatlon. but undar the ciro,Mit*ncea ft
o«wrrad to ma that tha fonla ml^t be wortti mora thwi
•kail* to tha muaeum, Ho^arar I }»Ta meaaurad th« an!
M th« lihotograplnd. ao Ihat thay are aubj art to your call

^Oimking you for your kind Intareat In holpli^
ma famy difficult wort on tha Boara

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Mr, W, C. Bwdljury, ^ ^ .,^^

506 Railroad BuiMing.

Danyar, CoJ«*«ao.

Daar Sir:

Mr, J. P« ySggina of your Natural Hiatory Ifaaewji

haa just B«t ma a larga Sriassly akull ^lidx jou w«ra kirf
onot^ to loan him. Tho akull haa arrirad in osoallazit
condition, and i« noa being cgn^sletaly daanad. Having
h»m killed on the Haina eaat of the mountalna, and baling
fully adult, it la a apeclraan of unuaxial in^ortanca. and
will be of great aasiatanca to me In rny voo* on the group.
If you are willing to part with it, I ehould be glad to
pay $60 for it ani praaent it to our ITation^ lfciB«»w
Otherwise, T will return It to you after it ia meaaurad,
photoKraphed , and eonqpared with the other akolla In our
oolleotion.

I should be glad to know juat viiers it mm kUlad,
and should be inter eated in any oiroumstaneea eonnaetad with
the klllii^.

With many tharics for your courts^ fn allowing
me to aiamine the apecimen.

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Dear ?fr- GrrosTtocxr:

It will giTa me naich pl«Mura to
dina with you at tha Nair Villard at 6:30
Tuaeday efranii^. May 26, to maat Colonal

Boos av alt.

Colonal Rooaavelt has asked ma
to maat him at tha train and take him with
Charry ani Millar to tha Ifasaim to aaa aoma
of hia African apacimana* Tha groupa in
tha Vm Haaaum have baan cooq^atad alnca
ha want to Sooth Inmrlca*

Since my car comfortably a eats

flra para one 9 T aaauma that it will he

sufficient.

Very truly yours

Vt. Gilbert H. arosrenor.

national aeographic Society
Washington, D.C.

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Dear Grinnell:

YoQTB of the 2lBt Instant at hand, together wilh
the P&inar Cocopah manoacript. This I am ml^y glad to
ha¥«, OTan though Palmer vaa not much of an athnologlat.

The atnff I sent you «aa » mlBcallaneoua hatch
of cUjplngB concerning non-Cali fomla ladlam, and moat of
It seamed to he rubbish. Thinking howeror that you might
find Boaebhii^ of interest In it, I sent it along. You ara
ri^it in flt^rposing it to hare come ffom the same sala. I
got a lot of stuff in that sale, bat not mooh of real ralua.

Sorry you vers not able to cane dan here agftlnt
but glad you and Mrs. Grinnell are going to so good a placa
as WoodBtock. After Lagunitas I tnaglna that Woodstock is a

fine place to sunniar in*

Are you not going ^ssi this year yourself, and if
■0, may we not hope for a Tisit froa you on your way around?

▼« «re tryii« to gat thir^ in shaj» «© •■ *• leara
aboijt the middle of Jtm«. Mora Boar sktillB are coAing in
eT«t f^ *»7" ^^^ *^« result that sereral puaslaa have bean
cleared up.

▼ith W/9 tharicB for the Cocopah manasorlpt.

As arar youra.

Dr. G«2. Bird^&rl^*il» ^
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Dear Sirs:

Yoar latter of the 19th instant, signed W. P.
Albrecht, raaAad ma duly, but the tira g»uga mentioned
M bali« sant undar aapantta coTsr has not yet sham up.

HoplT« it has not bean lost or BtolaB in the

maiix.

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ProfaeBor Joto Jfartl't^^

Yala UnlTtrBity,

Hot BaTaxit Cdna«

lly dear Professor Warts:

l&try thanks for your letter of the 20th instant* I
am glad that we my make part of the trip in coc^^anyt althoygh
you are startii^ so much ahead that I doubt If we can catch you
this side of Salt Lake, perhaps not even theoi However there
is not apt to be much trouble east of Green RivsTt Wyomingt "J^l
from Green River to old Port Bridger tha road is fair. After
leaving Bridger the pull up to the saxndt cf the liasatch is a
rather hard one* not on account of steepness ef grades but
because of their length* Prom the suonit of the Wasatch dcwn
to Salt Lake City and on into Nevada « the going Ib fine«

You will see from the above remarks that I am nor
talking about the Lincoln Hi^sray Instead of the route throygh
northern Arisona. The reason is that I have just heard from
the Touring Bureau of the American Automobile Asaociation to
the effect that the Lincoln Hlgjiway, In spite of road woric^
is considered \jj far the better routs this year, besides being
the shorter and cooler wsy«

It does not seas likely that we Mn get away from
Washington before June U, the day you eocpect to leave Des
Moines. Hence If you are on schedule timSt you wlU be ten

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dajB ahead of ua. So you see it will ba eoctrenely difflctilt
for u8 to catch vep.

If you have not aocurad the nor 1914 edition of
the OverlaJid Trail book and map, jtat iBsnad Ijy the A. A. A,
yon had better get than at once, as thay will be a great help.

Tonne or ranchae are so near together ftrom fJheymne
east that a single car is safe enou^ in traTollng alone, bat
there are stretches in wast am Hyoming and in ITevada where
the prestnee of a companion car would be a source of real comfort,
particularly to the women.

You had better write me so that I will receire the
letter not later than June 10, telling me what sort of a car
you have, ai^ about whore you eipec* to be June 25 and June 30.
This will enable me to connect with you by mail or wire so
tl»t we may keep in touch. Ify car is • Chevrolet 6, with a
radiator rasaobling that ef the Oakland.

▼ith best wishes, and regreta that I cannoi get

off earlier,

Tery truly yours.

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^ett- -^V^ a« that yott my be »bl» to help bm in oW»iiii»t ricolls of

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fpw trylqg to oonipl€rt>a a work ^ oit %ur AmericHUi Earjni, anft
am Ijavli^ great difficulty ln\i6eurlng aaoa^ rtaLls

. -f^ * ^^-for erltleal stud^, and aiA anxloas to p^rdhftse

A/-:^^ , («8 poMlblo. !^will pay for akolls of Oiiiiliai >?«

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$5 to $20 aiflh, aecordlxig to •«« agmi and eooUtiKia.
If you have ai^ BkuUa^ or know of angr paraansiAo imrm.
I flhall be greatly obliged if yon will kindly lab hi# knov*.
Faekigafl coirbalniTi^ ekolle should hm mmit by mprmm^
narked CSiargee Colla^k. and addreaeed U. S« Blcdcgfeal
Sturvey, Department of i^lexiLttra, Waahington, I}«C« Year
own name should be written In the v^w IdPt Imn^eerfK
of the padcage*

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Mr. Alexandar Vreatt,

Wraif^all, Alaska.

Sir:

Your letter of May 14 arrlyad sevenl days ago,
and the two skulla of Griizliea which you ware kiM enough
to seed have just reached me.

One of the skulls, the one without the lower jaw,
iB a rvy fine one, and I wish the jar had been saved too.
Bat mm without .the jaw I will pay you $20 for it. The other
rirall is nracfe less valuable, the back part aid base having
been destroyed and the jaw being diseased. The injury to
th» l«ft side of the jaw is not the result of recent shcotfm,
biA Is a disease of the bone celled caries, and has bean a
numbo- of years In reaching its present condition. I T7ill
give you $15 for what there is left of this skull. A check
for the two. amounting to $35. wiU be sent you fras the
Smithsonian In a fm days. Some one met have fooled you
In telling you that the Smithsonian would pay $50 for this
kind of a specimen. We have nanjr Bear skull? with diseased
jaws, but m^jch prefer Qwsewith normal healthy jaws.

Now about the hunt: I am willing to abide by your
advice, and will wait until fall, ^ut I hope you will set
out as early in the fall as you are sure of getting Bears.

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While it ifi Important to l^avo the hidee in neir fur, nevertheleBS
t*be skulls cure 979a more ingportant than the skins, and thef
are good at all seasons*

In a f 017 da3rB I ^ill send you a Grovenimait permit
which will enahle you to kill Bears for o\ir collection.

There are ^0 very different kinds of Bear along
the coast frcm Lyrm Canal to British Columbiat a Srizzly and
a Br o*n Bear, and l)oth of these are different from the
Sriassly of the Upper Stikine. The Bears I am most anxious
to gat are those on the iunadiate coasf. iol ets —not those
farther Imck in the mountains. Bradfield Canal, ixfhich you
mention, ought to be a (j;ood place for the cocuBt Bears.

Please let me knoir when you think it best to start
so that I can arrange about the payment of your salary. I
espact to be In Ocilif omia fran about the middle of July until
October, and my addrass duriqg that period will be Lagunitas,
liarin County, Calif omia,

I wish you would keep an eye out for Bear skulls
between row and nart fall. If you find any one ??ho has one
or more skulls of Criazlias or big Brown Bears from known
localitiea, I wish you would buy than for me and send them on
by eipresi to the Biological Survey. For skulls with jaws of
adult f anale Grizzlies in good condition I will pay $10;
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and broken skulls, Binallar amo^^ts, the amount f cjr each
depending on its coniitioin. I shftll be glad to got Bkulla
from any:7here -islands, coast, or interior - provided you
knew wliers tha?- ware killed bo that the label on each will
give the locality frou which it came.

In case you fait sure of getting Grizzlies on

the Lower Stikine about 40 miles frcm Wrajigall. I '^^'^^
reimburse you for the license fee of $25 which you woiold

have to pay.

All packages contairxii^ specimens should be sent

by arpress, nariced OhaiEeB Collect, and addressed U. S.

Biological Sun^ejr, Departraent of AGricultiiT-e, Washlnr^ion. D.^.

Your own name should be written in the upper Irft hand comer

of the paclaige.

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Mr. Daning:

Daring your contemplated trip to northwest em
Montana, yotr may pessibly have an opportunity to kill
a Grizzly Bear or two, or to secure Bkulls of G-rizzlies
from some of the Indian hunt ere. I am trying hard to
finish ay work on tlie Big BearB, ajid am eacc.eadingly
arndoufl to obtain skulls, particularly those of adult
male and female (Jrizzlies, and shall he greatly indebted

if you can help me.

The skulls already obtained and presented to
the National Mciseum show that several entirely distinct
spwiaa of Orlxzlies inhabit Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
It 1» hoirever utterly impossible to map their ranges frcm
the lnsufflci«fc m«berial in the museum. JEvery additional
skull therefore will be a positive help.

With beat wishes,

Very truly youra.

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Washington, D.0#

Dear Er, Adanis:

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Herewith I em iiiclosirg itxj axpense accor?r.
for May, amounting to $27.77, and rent bill for ofrt.^e
apartment atNorthi^niberland for June, $50, ^th telsprcne
service for May, 60 ctB, together with salary vouchor.^
for Miss arcver $110, and Fred IJansell, Bear hunter Jn
British Coluiiibia, $100 ($50 Iiavir^ heen advanced by me
and included in preceding expense account). I shall
be obliged if you will kindly pay these from the Harrtj£ia
Fund.

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By this time I sirppose you hav^moved to

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pleasantly situated and^ doii^. well*

Recently I have been informed that Elmer Squirec
of Springville has trapped half a dozen 3ray Wolves durir^
the past season, and tliat Everett R. Brann repjDrt-s tliat 12
Timber ¥olveB were captured in the r^ion of Nelson Fork of
Tule River*

Up to the present time proof of the existence of
real Wolves as distinguished from Coyo-oes in Oalif(y;jia is
altogether lackirg* If it is tru# tliat Wolves have been .
killed in the state, I atm most anxious to secin-e a fm
specimens for our ilaticnal Jfase^jm,. pnd wc^old gladly pay $15
for an authentic skull or $10 each for a dozen sbolls. I
would also pay $40 for a complete skin suitable for museum
piirposas and ace otjapani ed by its own skull* In case it is
impossible to s^jure such speeimen«, I would be glad to pay
$10 for a trapper*s pelt, provided of course that there is
no doubt as to where the aninal was killed. If you can
help me in this raatt6r, I shall be greatly obliged.

Our daughter Dorothy was rrarried to Henry Abbott

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Merriam, Ze^iaida and I eocpact to staarfc for CsJ^if-orAia
about the middle of June, and to go by autcmoblle, as wS
did last year. *

HopiiTg tliat we shall be able to see you before
our return, and with kindest regards to li&rs* Stewart and
Emily,

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Dear Sir:

You have reported, I am told, the capture of 12

Timber WoXtm on or near Naleon Fork of Tule Rivar*

I ajn gr»tly interested in the Wolf qtiesticn In
tjalifornia. No authentic apecimens of the genuine Wolf
in distinction from the Coyote have thus far reached any
mufteura so far as I am avare. The Coyote of the southern
Si^ra is a large species often mistaken for a true Woll
'If Wolves do occur in the region, it is very inqpoortant so
estahlAh the fact, and I should be glad to pay $15 for a
Bkull from a specimen knom to have heen killed in California
anl I vould also offer $10 apiece for 10 skulls, provided
there is no question as to the fact of the animals' having
hean killed within the state of Calif omia* fartharraore,
I TTOuld be gl^ to pay $40 for a ^vsc^lete skin of a
California Wolf suitable for muaeum purposes accaqpanied
bj its skull«

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Bear Schults :

Thanks for your letter af May 2S» \m oTDlifced

to you for writing to parsona in MoPitana fiU)d Wyoming ia the

hope of gotting hold of some (^rizsly ekulls* SSo thing could

ha mora uaaful to me at thia time than skulls of adult

D-rizzliea from these atatea^ - ^■

The animal your son brought from the Grand Canyon
is conmonly called the Hii^-tailed Cat or Sivet. Ita
technical name ia Baaaariacua aatutua.

1 expect to leaTe for California about the middle
of June to be gone until fall. My aimroer addreas ia
Lagunitaa, Varin Co, California.

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Fiah and GkmelConBisaion,

Portland, Oregon.

My dear Sir:

Ihe laat number of the Oregon Sportsman conitains
an article by you entitled Hie Timber Wolf is Oregon] which
la of much intereat. If you can aend me a couple of extra
copiaa of thia article, X abal) be greatly obligod.

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Forest Super? isor.

Springenrille, Arizona.

My dear Sir: \

Your letter of May 21 i a at hani, returning tba

check I sent you for the Boar skulls.

i appreciate your courtesy in the matter, Hut wish
to state that tha money sent itaB not government money, and
that £ should be vary glad at any time to pay any local

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iioaanuch as the preparation and shipment of such specimens
iBVolves a lot of trouble not contemplated in) a government
mane's regular duties, and which woik mi^t be done evenings,
1 see OD il^>ropriety in payinfr for tht^ same out of a private
fund at my disposal for such purposes.

i have written to the persons mentioned ins yovar
letters, and am greatly obliged for the trouble you have
taken in my behalf.

The Biological Survey hali been for soma years

collecting material for a publication on tho Fauna of the

statoy^similar to that by Vernon Eailey on New Mexico, and H

trust that the work may be carried to completion within the

next year or two. You may have seen my Biological Survey of

the San Francisco Mt. Hegion and Desert of the Little Colorado,

published in; 1690 •

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Kr. A. B. Patterson,

Forest* Siipervisor,

Hot Sprir^s, Oalif.

Dear Sir:

iiany thanks for your letter of liay 23, in
answer to my inquiries about the Wolves. 1 am glad
to have the information you give me, and hope that
either Joseph Grrinnell or myself may succeed in securii^
a specimen or two for the museims we represent.

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Tale University,

N«w Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Wurts:

Thanks for your letter of iiay 29. in a few
days 1 will write you at Des lioines at the address you

Last year I took the southern of the two standard
routes throtigh Iowa, going by way of Davenport, Iowa City,
and Des lioines. That is a very hilly route. This year i
expect to take the northern route, crossing the river at

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an address, ]aat you are reasonably safe in writing me hare
to reach me on the 11th or 12th of this month.

if there are any matters connected with the
trip which you would like to ask about, doru^t hesitate to
do so.

"l^ianks for description of your car. i shall have
no difficulty in recognizing it by your Gonr»cticut license,
as you state.

June 1, 1914.

earlier,

With best wishes and regrets that I cannot get off

Very truly yours ,

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lirs. W^ N. Smith.

^^® ^o^S^ ^ Stream Office,
2? rhaines Street.

Kew York City,

Forest and Stream of lia.v 2.^ nr^r^^^A^^ • x

* cwi ui M&y ^ contains an interesting

article by you o»i the hibernating instinct of a baby Bear.

1 should be greatly obliged if you will kindly
write me where the Bear came frost. 1 assume that the
cub was that of a Black Bear, and tiiat the incident
occurred someijrt^re in the east.

▼t^ry truly yours.

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State Tfeasurer,

Sacramento, Calif*

0« May 4 I sent you descriptioi^ of mj automoMle and fifteen
dollar, for license. On May 14 1 received fro. j«u my check and
a blank fom, which I filled and returned with check to pu same
day. License not^ yet received. When was it sent?

C . Hart Merriam.

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W. H» Case

Mr. vi'. H, Gaeo,

jAinaau, Alaska.

Deal* Sir:

Your letter of U&y 14 can© about a week a^, and
the skulls have new arrived. Bioy prove tc- he of considorable
interest., aM i am greatly ohliged for your kirxiness m sending
them. 1 have made out a vouchor for taeae, amounting to i65.00,
a check for which amount will be sent you before long by the
Smithsonian Institution.

Apart from the threo ainall Black Boars and some
odd jaws of yoiaig Macks, tlie lot contains 2 Grizzlies (1 a
male from the mainland, the other an old female from CHaichagof
Island), and 5 Brown Bears, younf- and old, from Admiralty

and Ohichagof Islands.

Should you obtain any additional skulls of Browi
Boars or Grisalies during tiie present year, I shall be very
glad to purchase the same, aesuming cf course that they are
correctly labeled for locality. I am particularly szixiouB
to secure adults of both sexes from the iaainltir.d.

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For skulls of Bears f3*om SE Alaska;

1 old male, Uraus-^ulophua, from Admiralty

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1 male big Brown Bear, Admiralty Id.

1 male Grizzly from mainll^

2 females from Chichagcf id, at t&

2 3^ung male Brown Bears at $8 k $b

3 small Black Bearsiwith odd jaws

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Mr* W. I. Adama^

Accountant. Smithsonian Institution,
Waanington, D^H.

Dear Mr. Adams:

Since sending you my accounts for Kay L.ha^e
received an important shipment of Bears frcm ff, H. Ctase
of Juneau, Alaska, for nhich I am inclosing herewith a
Toucher amounting to $86, and shall be greatly obliged
if you will kindly pay the same from the Harriman ¥uDd.

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ooloi-cao kuseuM of natural Kiatcrv
Hanver, Colorado.

Dear kr. FigRins:

Your letter of May 28 has just arrived, wid I
appreciate your kindness irt the matV.r of the Bear skulls
Your 8U6088tion of an exchange strikes me as excellent,
and I hwre no douU that the Biological Sunrey will be'
very glad to give your iBusoia an adequate oxchaigo
either ia Mris or mamnals. I will talk this over with
Mr. Nelson and let you know later.

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New iork City. •

Dear Sirs:

On May 27 1 aent you my check of $6.16 i»

payment for Cartwrip^t^s Western Wild Animals, and o»
the bottom of the bill asked you U> kindly send receipt.
A ^;«ek has now elapsed, and no iBceipt has \»een received.
What ia tbe trouble?

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LaguniUe, Marin Co.. OALITOBNa .

Please for»art imzDediately to me at nineteen nineteen SixteentJi
street, ffashington.. .qr autcmobile license sent ly mistake to
lB€'^ita« bj State i^asurer at ^acranento. i will of course
remit tc cover all expenses.

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Clievrolet Motor Go.

Flint, Michigeu^*

Dear Sirs:

Parte T^epariment

Yo^lr letter of May 20, signed J.K. Varty, came duly,
and the parts for front wheel bearings., described in the
accompanyiiTg invoice, also arrived. And tiie balls not
included in the first shipoient Init wired for hj me iianediatelj
afterward were duly recoiTsd. The balls were sent C.O.D. ok
wMdi I paid $9, betiidee express charges.

On May 25 you s'eht me 4 45 Thrust bearing washare.
I did not order these and know nothing about them, i showed
them to Henderson i Ebwe, your agents here, and thev know
nothing about them. It would seem therefore that they were
sent ffle by mistake, and I am returning them herewith. In
the same package I am returning fromt wheel bearings not
needed - you having sent more than I onlered; and also the
bearings from the ri^t fronA wheel showing injuries to ths
«pp8 and to the email cone. Y^,.j ^i^ ^,t^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^

cups, both laiTge and small, ar. badlj dug out ^ the actioir
of the balls, although tMs set is the set you sent me tc
California only a short ti«e before my car wa. shipped to
jou, so that these parts hate b^d less than 3 months service.

Inclosed is a memorandun of th-j parts returned by

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parcel po8t(iHBured) today.

i have retained a complete extra set of front ^eel
bearings to provide against possible trouble on the way.

Herewith I am returning your two unpaid bills for
the whe3l bearings ($20.6&). and :airust bearing washers itB.2S),
and shall be obliged if you will kindly send mo a new bill
after making duo allowance for liie parts ret^irned herewith.
On receipt of your new bill I will remit by return mail.

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PAETS PETUPrffiB TO CHKVRGLKr MOTOR CC. JUN?] 2, 1914
By C. H/.RT fc2RR2;;i:, 1919 - 16tii St-WASHING-TON,B.?
(For Chevroiat car Hype C #178)

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I outside cone
X small ball cup
10 small balls

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11

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I retainer

1 in^eide cone

1 la*iE» ball cup

11 balls

1 retainer

1 felt washer

1 dust collar

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Poa^tmaster,

Lagpnitas, California*

Deajr Sir:

Yosterday 1 learned tliat the State ^r^3a8urQr
at Sacramento had by mistake sent my automobile license
to Lagunitas in;stead cf to Washington!. I inmediately
wired 3pou aakin^^ you to forward same to me at my heme
address, 1919 • 16th Street. Kor^nrith i inclose $1 to
cover any expenses you may have been* put to ia coiin*j»-b^r.u
with tiie sa/ue, and if tliis is net enough, will settle
balance on^ my orxival at Lagimitas.

Please do not forward any more mail to
Washington, as S hope to leave here before tiie middle of
this month and to arrive at Lagunitas before the middle

of July

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i4r. W.

505 Railroad BuiWinp;.

Denver, Colorado.

My dear Sir:

Very many thanks Tor your courtesy ir. replying; to

„,y inouirieB about ti.e l^ig ^.rizzly Bear whose skull you so
kindly loaned me throupji Mr. Figgins. I appreciate your
feelings in the matter, and while regretUn=; tliat wo can-
not add 80 important a skull to our National CoUeoticn.
I am relieved to know that you have detemined that its
eventual resting place will be tiie Colorado Wusoum.

I am much interested in the detailed account you
have been kind enourjix to give me concerning the killing of
this Bear by Harry Younta, and appreciate the trouble you
have taker in so doi«f!t. If I ^ not mistaken. I met ihit
same II*m- Younte near Henry l^e in eastern Idaho forty-twc
years ago. at *hich time I was zoologist of Hayden's <?urvey

of the TerriUriea.

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Mr. G

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Knik,

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Inlet, Alaska

Lear Sir:

Your letter dated April 26 did not reach «« for

nearly a month. On receivins i*- ^ ^P9^^^ ^° *^^ Dopartocnt
for a Govemnent Pemit- for you to collect Mg Boars in
Alaska. This permit has just reached me. and I take pleasure
in inclosing it harewitii. You will ohuenre that it enables
you to collect ten ClO) large Brown Bears during ^iie present
year. The term •Brown Bear* in the law covers both Brown
Bears and Grizzlies. The word 'collecV enables you to
purchase specimens from natires dr other huniters.

r quite agree with you iatfeeling +hat the
prrisent law is in many cases unnecessarily drastic.

I earnestly hope that you will be able to obtaiw
a number of skulls for w daring the present season, ff you
find thit yDU can secure more than terc and will let me know
at once, I may be able to secure an additional permit.

HaTins already written you as to the prices 1 a*
willing to pay, it is not necesoory to repeat here.

All packages containing n.jeclmerB should be shipped
Iky express, charts collect, and addressed '«i. S. Bioltiel«ftl
Survey, l>5nartment of Agricr^lture, WasMngtoir, D.O., and your
tnm naio. should be plainly written on the upper left hand comer
of the package. Very tnily your^

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Mr. Alexander Vreatt,

Vrangell, Alaska.

Bear Sir;

-ince writing you last, the copper jacket with
part of the bullet which killed iiie n.rizzlj Bear. ,*08e
skull you sent me acme little tiae ago.hae arrived, for
which r am obliged. It la interesting to note the
shape of thia metal after it had ahattered the base of
the Bear-8 akull and traveraed a conaiderable part of his
anatomy. Do you wiah me to return it? IT so, I will do
80 on hearing from you.

Herewith I am inclosing a 9ovemiaent Pemit, which
will enable you^to collect and ship from any part cf
Alaska all the B^bwn Boars and Grizzlies you are able to
obtain during the preaent yoar. Under the law, Gnzzliea
are classed order the general heading of -Large Btcto Bears*.

All puckagBB containing specimens sliould be
addressed U. S. JHoicgical Survey, Department of AiTicult'jre,
faahington', D.C., and ycur own name should be plainly written
on the upper left hand cornor of tls package.

Very truly yours.

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Mr. H. W. H^nshaw, . , „

Chief, Bioloptical Survey,
WasHington, I^.".

Doar Ur. Hensliaw:

Very many thanks for your letters of the 4th and
6th instante, transmitUne Permits Hbs. 410 and 411, for
the collection of Mg Bears in: Alaska, for Alexarder Treatt
of frar^ell and G. W. Palmer of Kraik.

1 shall ho very glad to purchase and present
to th9 Biological Survey all Bpecinons collected uirier

those permits.

I note that tha Alaska collectors are told to

ship their specimens to the 'Department of Aericialture* .
fhat has hecone of the Biolop^cal Survey?

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Itear Gremral Abbot:

Many thanks for your letter
of the 3d instant, inc losing notes oil
tb9 Chinook Jargon and a number of words
collected by you the year 1 was bom* I
shall always prize this, and thank you
very much for your trouble iro havirg it
copied for me.

I have not seen the Ganadifiui
publication you mention, btat doubtless
can) have access to it i» the Smithsonian
library.

wishes.

With many thanks, and best
Very truly yours,

General Henry !• Abbot,
23 Berkeley Street

Cambridge, Mass.

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Hudson Jftook Cc. .

862 Hewitt Place, The »ronx.
New York City •

Dear Sirs:

Tours of the 3d instant was a f^reat surarise.

In case my chock has not recu^iiod you on> Monday, th9 15th,

please notify ine and I will stop paynont on it and send

you a duplicate, i am naidng a specific data, as I expect

to leave for California iimed lately afterward.

Res r)ect fully.

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Professor John VurtB,

Das Moires, lomi*

li^- dear Professor Wixrts:

Glad to have your letter of the 9th instant fran

Detroit, and to knew that you are not reach ir^g Des Moinea before

today, possibly later. I also wn delayed, but sh^all be or the road
in a few days. I will call for mail at^Korth Platte » Cheyenne,
Laramie, and Salt Lake City, but hope to overhaul you in Wyoding.

In reply to your inquiry about a cainp outfit, I can
hardly do better than tell you what we ouraelves take, and
perhaps I had better begin by nentiwiiig what we do not take*
We do not carry a refr^lation tent nor any kind of mattresses*

Following is our outfit:

Bed for each person, consisting of one cheap bed ccxrifort
f^ostirjg $1. This should be folded lengthwise, sewed up at the
bottcHn and alone ^^"^^ aide to within 2i ft, of thetop^^ lach of
tjiase is provided with a cover^of unbleached sheeting large
enoi:eh to carry the cofi2fort-Bleepinp;-b6^g and a few inches longer.
We lay our beds side by side on a larj^e ground-cloth 12 ft. wide
and long anov^ to cover the car —as we use the same cloth for
a^ auto cover when neceif^oarv. This cloth should be taken to an

awning shop to have brast?? ring holes set in the edge all around^
li ft. apart. It can then be convort.ed into a tent if necessary

and fastened I'irml"^ o^^er the car when needed.

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Itich of tlie way the nights are so warm that a person
does net crawl Into his sleepirg bag. but sleeptE^ on top of it
with a flap of the grourd-cloth t>irown over, Tiis doubles the
thidcness underneath and is ?no8t lijxurloias.

For nigjitly use^ instead of a tent^we carry a bro7;n
cloth (thin khaki or ccais thing of the kind) measurirg about 15 ft.
by 12* This is used as a lean-to against one side of tlie car^
the long way sloping from the top of the car to the eTOund^ where
it is secured by about 4 gtfuiMH large size wire nails driven
into the ground* The upr;t*r i^rd overlaps the^JIUdle of the car a
foot or niore and is attached by cords to the far side of the
car. These cords should net be attached to the corners^ but
to 5 or 8 ft. of the middle part, leaving the sides to fall as
flaps I making end pieces to the tent. The grou7>d atr ^arihrne^it
should correspond, by which I rnean that the corners on the
ground should nd be nailed fast» but left free to fold in. Tni?
details of adjustment will beccae obvio^as the first tizna you
put the thing ^jrp. This sort* of a lean-to lias nanwroijis advai^.a^-":^
as a washing; and dre88i>-g place, having the r^anidrig boards eeati^
a/id bcttora of the car to serve as shelves to put things on.
^irt'Bnnoret the putting up and taking down of this lean-to
requires aily a few luomenti*, while, as you know, the daily
baxxiling of a tent is an irksome tima-killer.

Si bed should be rolled and corded seraratolv*

The groxjnl-cloth (or auto covar) and loan-to may be roll3d

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V« .a-^ Biz. a, tha *«i roll.. *«" "lU .a err/ behind t.,
«r b,.,a,n tha artra tira a^ *h. b«,lc of «« oar. o.:^ a .«U
..uara of o..va. to jro^aot t.» fr<« duat -^ rain. Thay *-l*
•0. firril, oi™>h- ty «a.. of a coM m-.a fat to tha t ra Iron.
,or .». othar fi« ™PPort at th, back of yo.^ oa^ Thi. *ould
\«, adjaatad .0 t%t It «u, b. tiad and >n>tlad ^aickly. Tor all
of tha cord. « a.a good wind^^d, a. it Is .tronc and doo.

not unravels

We generally move tha car to a raaeoT^hly flat place

x,ear t'.e read ^era ^ can epraad o^:>r gro-ond-cloth a.id tad. close

alongside. uBir^c tha loan-to tent to draae in. not to sleep in

nnlese it rains.

Our codeine outfit is exceedlryrly simple and easy to
handle, as you ^ill see Trm the follorri^ig list of items contributt-

ad by lb*s. Iterri&n.

Three (3) nesting pails: 1 1-q.t, for coffee; 1 2-q,t.for
milk or seneral use; 1 6.cr 8-qt. for water. Tae coffee paU,
which goes Inside tha others, should be put iiitc a ssall bag to
keep the othars clean, as tha coffee pail uriU often have to be
rackod in a hurry yihen there is no c1ianc<» to scour the outside. .
The 3 pails collectively are put 1-io anot^^er ha^. the coffea pall
bal- utilieed of corpse by packing it f-oll of coffee bags or
other smll articles. The coffee is gro^md ard enough for each
meal Is seired up In a sniall ^eesecloth bag. which is put into

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tha coffaa pall to boll and la aftar^u-d throT, ^j., r.s o-^ar
art,.cl,a ro. oookln: ara: 1 frylne pan; 1 hroUar or tctar; "
1 ™il hraad knlfa. a™, a knlfa. fork, apoon. tin jUt, ,^
cm for oach paraono

Wa eaoarally l,.y at ona ti™ 3 r„a. floor. 1 lb. ooffe.
«tn .uff iola,* sugar. . ,^^ ,, ^,^_ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ .

naming powder, salt arid -naTrar Tha-o -u^ u

r!3_j,r8r. Aneee should never be ru^ in

papar bags, but in cloth bags or tin boxes.

T}.e cookir^e outfit, except the 3 pails which re in a
has by themselves, aay be conveniently carried a].ong with the
erub It. a smll size cheap basket suitcase, or smll box or ary
kindj^o^^ in the front of the tonneau. Bread, fresh fruit a:u
3ili: may be had daily until ona reaches Oheyanne. beyond which'it
is desirable to carry a little more.

Our ground-cloth and sleepiivs bae coversVof unbleached
she8tl^;,7era paraffined last yaar by Mrs. Merriao... tha paraffin
being melted j^d poured into gasoline in which the goods ara soakad
Tne cloth ia then hung in tha open air until the eascline has
evaporated, ar.d is then ironed with hot flatlrons to T7crk tha
paraffin into th, g;ood8. Cloths so trsatad'are reaRonably wa':or-
pro^.f and d':st.proof. Howovar thin ia not nacaaaary. and'you
probably .7111 not ^^^^e fB^iUtU^ for the opemtion at Des Moines.

ThroijgVcut tha mtdls west we found co-.u,^r:r «chocl .
houees convenisnt places for «arcpi-(r, .

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co.tir.uoB a= far a* laaBt .... middle SeVraaka. thou*^ I =^^SJ=Be
tbiB will -oe of no interest to any of your p«rty. jartloaarly

if tihQ wsathsr kssps hot.

I reeret exceedinsly that I have not been able to
start before thie. hut harrin?, accidents. I slmll puala on as
rapidl- as Mrs. lierrian a^ :ir/ daughter can stand the ride, and
Bvall hope to overtake you hef ere you pass all of the had places.

Please have a letter waiting, for me at Kearney (General
Delivery) ahout July 1, and another at Clieyenne or Laramie, to
provide acairst accident in delivery.

With best wishes,

Ver;'- truly yours.

PS. l?hein you get to Cheyenne ja\x hed better purc^iase a
5 gallon South itfrican Desert water hag. We carry ours on the
running board T7ith t,he top cord looped over the iron brace vrliich
supports the front of the top. Tiis keeps it out of the way of
t>je doors and outside of the car, and at the saiie time is liardy
t© get at. After it has been well soaked, it will not leak more
than is desirable to keep the water cool.

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Tish and Game Oonmission,
Portliwi^f Oregon*

117 dear Sir:

. Very Tnar^ thanks for yoiir courtesy and . ^
jrcraptness in sa idiiqg ma separates of the Oregon Sportsraan,
ccntaining your important article on the Timber Wolf.

In case you see Vernon Bailey in tha near future,
please tell bini that I expect to start for California this
week« , . . -

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Mr. Albert Waynard deliwrad

yoixr latter of introrfnction a f aw day*

ago on one of our hotteat days* He and

Mrs. ?Jaynard were Aight-seeliTg under etreae

of weather, and ware leaving next day in

hope Of atriking a less trying teinperatura »

ao that I waa not able to ahow tbam any

attention, which I regrat.

Hoping for better luck next tine,

and with kiwi reganla to you and !lr«. ^terma

Teiry truly yours ,

Ilr* F. KeraodOt

Director. Provincial Kuaexan,
Tictoria, B.C.

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Director,

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Dear ^'^ir:

Gaolopical Siorve''^.
Wasiiingbon, D.O.

T Bhall bo obliged if you will send m a copy
of Bulletin 546: Mineral Heeourcea of Southweetem

Orep.onl by -T".^* Diller. ' -

'""' AlBO, the 4 folloifinG maps of parte of
Galifornia. for which I inclose 40 eta:

t3holan», with parts of Fresno, .Karn» Kir^B, ?t San
•*^ . r. , : j^,^^g Otispo counties*

Folscxn • • " Placer h f5acramento count ies.

Lost Hills, " • • Kern '- Kin^ counties.

OaTDitola, " ■ * Monterey h f^anta Oru2 counties.

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Bureau of Soils,

WasMnpiton, D.O.

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If you have it to spare, I jshould be obliged
if you will kii%dly sand me a copy of your Bulletin
etftitled. The Topographic Features of the Desert Basins
of the United States with Reference to tre Possible

Occurence of Potash. , _ (f . ,^ ,

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Dr. Fisher and I are nociimting for non-reeident
aJber-Mp fa'ihe Cli^b.fr (George Bird Grinnell of Hew York.
I have knoim Dr. 'S^iynelTperecially and rather intinttbely
for about forty years', and ea glad to know that he "wwald
like to be reckoned amonc'the ine'ribers of t!-.e Cobthos Clv^.
You doubtless kno9V as well as I that for very vaazij years
lie was editor aril oimer of Forest and Streanit that in the
early days he carried on explorations for fossils in the far
west, ani was for some years assistant in the palaeontologrical
laboratory of Yale under the direction of the late Professor
0. C. Marsh; also that he is author of numerous works on
game birds « huntir^, arxl Indians, and of the admirable series
of books for boys conmonly known as the Vack Stories* —
Jade In a Canoe, Jack on the Ranch, Jack arnonp; the Indians,

and so on.

While best known perhaps as a naturedist, his most
iir^jortant contributions are in the field of ethnology. Among
his standard works in this field are. The Indian of Today,
Pa»mee Hero Stories, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, The Puniahment
of the Stilly, and other Indian stories. Besides these ho

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Ant'-Torolo^ist. Ke is one of the f oijnders.. and leading
spirits in the Boone and Grockett Oluh.bf whose pi^hli cations
he has always been editor. Personally lie Is a cultured',
gentle, and lovable naan. '

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7n.9 dav I receiyetgl YOUT latter of the Uth
instant about Grtnnell I tried to catch you hy phone,
but failed. I a?i c)f covmse p^ily too glad to write a
letter to. the Ccramittee on AdrniBeions recormiending hi»

election as a non-residents

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your hairless Seal arrived soon^aftarvjard. rne same was
reoumad to. you a few liays a^o, and I trust will have
reache* you safely before the arrival of this letter.

•^ 'li-'.a.Ihe skin without the skull is nuzilirg. Ve have
nothing like it here ^p the l^pemu There is little^ doubt
hoirevor that It is aq jbnpitaal ,^8^ the Pacific Coast

Harbor Seal, with-whic^ it agrees in general characters exce-ot
that the hide is hairless and the nails on the foref Uppers
are mooh oveiKrown —about double the normal len^h* The
extra long nails might be accounted for on the supposition ^.-u^-^
the Seal had been confined for some time in a tank or other
Inclosure where its nails would not be Tom ap;ainst rocks a^d
cnrB,yel. But I cannot acco^juit for its hairless condition
unless this was ihe result of a skin disease.

Should you ever secure atnother, please be sure to
get its skull, am iS'neA will tell the story positively*

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Dear Mr, Jardine:

' 'tiany t^ianks for yoiirs of th* 15t^ instant,

incloBinp'copy of lett&r from ?*r. Harris in reply to

J0^^ inc^iry 'aboih>' tK^'-feor alle^M to have disturbed

the slumhers o^ an inoffensive sheep herder. ShoiOd

vou laarr. a^mtiHln^i^^of''^ t6me, I «lifl.U of course

"be .only too fdad to Knwr the reBiuti*

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Dear Mr, Henahar:

Itr Faum on the Big Bear* heinc nearly ready
to turn ovar to you, I m irdoeirg herewith a liat of
the photographfl of flkulls of which good prints for
reproduction are needed, and shall be obliged if you
will paBS the sazae alonf; to !fr. Kent.

This brinfre ^ the matter of arrangement of
photographfl on the plates. Would you prefer a aingle
skull en a plate in order to bring out the characters
more distinctly, or shall I place two on a plate in order

to lessen the number of plates?

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"^"^ "^Z latter a.out t>« Silverto^ Oord tires ..la ^
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particolarly .irK,e w old tira. wara ^'^'^'\^'^ ^\^^^ ^^^
ri it .a. naceBsary to hava a na, .at «^y. So I i».ac,xa.ely
orferad a sat of 5. si.a 36x5. This was naarly ft raonth ago,
iman the tiras cana. thay did not fit w rim». so I ordered a
new set of Universal Intercharcaahle Firestone rir«. Vhan they
c««e. they wouM not fit the wheels. So I had to order a new
set of felly irons. They csn» a couple of day. seo. and were
Dut In pi^ce-by a compatant wheelwright. The result is that
I had the use of the csr kst night for ttte first tiine with
the new tiras. We took a long ride up hiU and do»n, and were
„,ore than delifrhted with the tires. I went up several hills
on high, i»hi«sh 1 have never before made on high.

IJhile I had heard a good deal about these tire, before.
I did not fea like lnvestii« in a set until yo'4 told me the
result of your ♦^erienoe. I now have a cofflplete set of 5.
all mounted on the Firestone Interchangeable rios and all
equipped with ?Ildialin inner tubes. Thi. ought to save no
end of tire trouble, and n«.ke a material difference in the

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distance we make each day.

You inay be surprised to find me still here. The
trotible Is the chronic one - bears. However, this has baen
niy lucky year, and new material has kept cmim in in the most
pacifying way. Several of the outstandim snags have been
<aoared up since you were here, including the proper assi^ient
«f female skulls to the males whose status had been previously
T-orted out. Laat week a splendid big skull in perfect condition.
Jcilled a little HB of Cheyenne, was sent me by a man from
Denver, and this morning I received another skull of the hu^e
nains (Jriazly killed in Tlorth Dakota in 1880. It came inside
the mounted head, but T aju havii^ it soaked up and expect to
get at it tomorrow. The huge hind molar, which can be seen
In the open mouth, leaves no doubt as to what the beast is.

The unpleasant feature of the matter^ M*" the general

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raoogoise as many as three entirely distinct species from
single localities. The series of skulls now in hand ie so
oonrincing that even Roosevelt^ when he was here a short time
•6«^ admitted the overwhelulng nature of the evidence, and
said he ntrer would have believed the facts had he not seen
the skulls thams elves. I was disappointed that Grinnell did
not have time to see them when he was here a week or so igo.

Perhaps the most fortumate event —If it mav be

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called on 8V<jnt - in my life is the fact that in epite of
preBBure from various Bouroes I have put off publication until
the present time. I feel that it ie no exaggeration to Bay
that I knoir at least ten times more about the hie Baars and
their interrelation than I did eii months ago.

We hope to get away in a few days now. and e^pact to
reac^ lagujtitas in the neighborhood of July 20, Early ii- July
we shall call for rnail at !!orth Tlatte and Laramie . and should
be glad to f ini a line frca you telling us how you and -^rs,
Sheldon and the youngBters are getting on this sumaer. We
hope you are all very well, and that Ttrs. S, will suffer no
further drawbacks,

I expect to COOK) hack considerably earlier than
usual In order to attend to the publication of the Bear book.
Meanwhile a Synopsis gses to the Biological Survey.

With love an4 best wi^es to you all, In which
lirs. Herri am and Zanaida join,

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June 17, 1914 •

T^ellOf'f- Mf;r^» Co*

Rocheater, N.Y,

Kellopj- c-ire pTjrop for rTnevrolet six receiTred, Drive gear
not receivedit Has it been shipped? If not, v*en can it
be shipped? Chmer of car waiting to start for Calif orniaii
Please wire answer our expense

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PittebJireJi , Pa.

Dear Ifr. BeggB :

Yoiar letters of the 12th and 16th inatants came duly,
and the head of the big Bear arrived safely day before yesterday,
for which I am mora oblif^d than T can express to you.

Althoush we have about a thousand skulls of Beam in
^ National Collection, nevertheless tliere remained several caps
D >'e filled, arri your specimen fills one of these. It is
therefore one of the most inroortant specimens tliat has come in
for many a day. I will have it entered in the Museum catalogue
as a present ftron yaa and Mr*. C. C, Beggs.

For twenty-three years I have been engaged in a
monographic study of our Bdars, the con^letion of which has
been delayed by the eitraine dif fia«alty in obtaining specimens.
iJntil recently the cC^rmon beliaf aawng naburaliete has been that
there wera only one or tro species Ox' frizzly. The specimen. I
v^va been able to bring tog.ether prove t.>* ^^l" " far fron the
truth, for tlia ekulls no# in Imnd ehm that there were a wmher
of spe-cies. Tlie specimen you iiave ^ifft^ belongs to the Plains
Grizzly,- a huge specie's differing widely from those Inhabitiiig
the Rocky Mountains. The sTcull of a huge male of thi.« species

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City, was presented to me last year "by ?irB. Cameron of Harsh,
Montana.

Thankii^ you and lire. Beggs for your f^enerosity in
presenting the specimen to the National Collection, and for
your promptness in sendirr; it so tlmt I am able to exa^nine it
before leaving for California,

Yery traly yours.

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Juno 19, 1914

5fr* Howard Baton,

Wolf, Wyoming.

Dear Tufr. Eaton:

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Thanks for your letters of May 26 and June 12, The
mounted head sent by Mr. H. n. Beggs came day tefore yesterday.
I iirraediately had it urmounted and the skull taken out aiid put
in the hands of the cleaner, from irtion I expect to receive it
hack tmorrm. It is a most important specimen fceir^j I feel
sure, the adult female of the ht^e Plains Grizzly, the only
adult skull of which I have previously seen teing a h\:ige mala
presented to me laat year by ttrs. Cameron of I&rsh, Montana.

A second letter from Mr. Beggs just received states
that we need not return the specimen, as neither he nor ?fr8. Reggs
lias any further use for it. It is certainly a most prized
addition to our collection. And you don't know how delighted
I am to see it before leaving for California.

You give me a thrill of joy by stating that you may
be al)le to secure still another skull of the Plains Grizzly.
I hope you will use every effcrt to do this, as each additional
specimen helps enormously in defining and verifying the
characters of the species. This species, by the way, is wholly
different from the Grizzlies of the Rocky Mountain region.

As stated in a previous letter, I slmll be very glad

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to pey a big price for ae many skulls as it is posslblo to
secure of this Bear. In cnse you obtain any before iny return,
please send them by express, cliaiiges collect, addressed U. S.
Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.O.,
and write your own name and the locality and approximte date of
killins on the tag attached to the skull, bo that there will
be no mistake as to where it came traau It will then be
cleaned and photographed, and the photographs sent me to
IJallf ornla, and I will see the skull itself on ny return. Vfj
address until the middle of September irill be Lagionltaa, ?!arin
County, Calif omia.

In closing, I wish to express nry appreciation of
the trouble you have taken In obtaining this Inportant specimen
for us,

With best wishes,

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vou >Tave to your office, i ani t-oj. .

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I have a record of a ^rizziy -.o«w

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r-eneral Bell fotir days after killing, wx _ , ^

X,. r. ^ f^A-k and hide removed. The wel^rh*
drained, and the head, feet, and hiae . . ..^^
of the carcase was 805 l.s. I ^^ tl.t the intestine,
were left in and are included in this weight. Oan you
tea «a approxi^tely ^^at the Bear weighed hefore skinn.i...

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'Jr. CO. Pinley,

■Valentine, Texas.
2ear Sir:

''^'*°" '^ '^^l^y in replying to your letter of
^"ay 9 about the data for your Davis vr+ .^, , .
lflf+«^ 4., X, • grizzly skull. Ihe

letter in question you Inclosed with the voucher returned
to the Smithsonian, so that there was some delay in
reaching me.

The data you have furnished T have entered on
the label and record of the specimen.

If you wish to send me the account of your hunt
I will see that it also i. attached to the specimen.

^6ry truly yours.

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Jxme 22, 1914

Ifr. Fred K. Biimham.

Martinez, Galifomaa.

My dear Sir:

lery n»ny thaanks for your letter of the 12th inetait.

I m more than deliajited to know that you are going on another
hunt in the Stiklne-Oassiar country, and am particularly pleased
that you ara rillii^^ to let m have a chance to exaraine such skulls
of Grizzly Bears as you inay brLn^ back. I am particularly anxious
to secure as nrach Grizzly rAteriU as possible before the end of
the present year for the reason that my^crk on the Bears must go .
to press during the coming winter. The region you are going to
hunt in is one of special interest because at least two distinct
species of Grizzly occur there. I should greatly appreciate
therefore the privilege of studying such specimens as you my be
fortunate eno-o^h to kill. I should be obliged al.o if you will
f.T.^ trouble to examine the stomach contents of all Boars

killed, whether Grizzly or Black, as we are much in need of
exact information as to what these Bears eat.

A circular of directions for the preparation of

specimens Is inclosed herewith.

I will try to obtain from the Bureau^ of Animal In
the f omOa for determining the live wei^it of an animal af

bleeding.

Should you happen to cone •cross any

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ChipraiaikB , we should be very glad of a few skills with skulls*
Molanistic Inilvidiaals occur now and then aniong all rnanmals,
hut a hlack race is a very rare thing*

I am now on the point of starting by automohile
for !!!7 s^jmn^r hcane at lagunitas, Pterin County » Oalif omia,
where I hope to arrive before the end of July. Should you
happen to visit our side of the bay, I should be mipjity glad
to see you.

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Dear Mr. Ada-is!

Hsre^itH I a-n inclosire: rt^ expense axsccmt for t>i9

nonth of' J^x.e. a;no.:ai-. ir., to $133.92. J.r.e salary '.-cucnar for
Mi3S Srorer, ste.o^-Ta?i.er. ^10; to salanr voucher for
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.^cto.ra.hin, s^^ls of he.ars $26.60. all of w'^icn I call
le obli..d if .0. .ill kirdr- pay from the Ha.ri.an ^.^d.

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Hcrfeaoherla.-.d for -^o-.th of JvJy $50.

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Mr* J* A. Wilson,

The Horthumbarlfimd,

Washington, D.O.

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occurred in tiie ceiling of racr office roan — tha large

comer room of apartment 701.

Ab I am about setting out for California for
the reviaiiiier of tha s^jmmer. a:id aa loaviiig inany val'oable
books arji papers in nr/ offica, I slicnld ba greatly obliged
if you will see tlmt the leak in the roof is rserdad before

the next storm occurs.

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New York Ci-oy.

D3ar Ifr. Tegsthoff :

IheK in the Srnitiicciiiari yesterday ai'tamoon,

I wae asked to remind ycu tliat tlia bill for printing
tlis text and plates of Professor Yerrill^s voiufflaa on
Starf islies for the Harriman-Alaska Series has not yet
been paid. Owing to ttw fact that the new fiscal year
begins an July 1, they are anxious to clceo the van: cue

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axjcounts for Via yecr novr axpiring.

I am on tlie point of leaving for Lagiuitas,
Oalifornia. rhere I expect to arrive ^h0 lattar part of
July, to ramain until about the end of September*

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BouUadav, Page & Oo.

"Oardan Oity, New lorff.

Dear Sire: *

Inclosed fii^ $3 in payment for one year's
flohsG'-iution to County Life, in accorda:ccs wiUi accanpoiiyirK

form recently sent me.

Kindly change ar/ addrasB for the smrsBer. including

the 8epten;"ber n^oiAer, to LagmlvMi VftXiV, C9»t QaUISElJft*
<5li«?lag back so Voat the October number will come to ray
Vefihir^.on address, 1919 - 16th Straat.

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Dear Mr; ShiroBt

*^cm3 days ago Mr. Nelson returned to the address
you gave him the skir of the head and the two forefeet ard -
clawe of your big Bear from Adniiralty Island.

Yeeterday I sant ycu by parcel post, insured,
tha hlg canine; tooth which you were kind enougli to loan
me, and of which I have had a cast made.

■Yoitp Bear, as you know, turned out tc be a spl3]:did
r.&w spetJies, Which it has *^iren lae pleasure to nane Tirsus shirasi
We previoi^flly had several^ young specffiiens, but none old enou^
to shew the adult skull characters. 'Since you were hore two
additiorial older specimens have come In, one not quite so old
as yajrs, the other -very much older but snaller. Your specimen
I liave made the type of the species^ to remain in Our National
Colleotioh for all time as the unit of comparison for this Bear.
It is a great pity that the skin and claws could not be pre-
served with it tc sliow their distiirtive characters. However
I aprrociate your desire to keep the mounted head as a trcnhy.
If you do not need both of the forefeet, we should be ^nirhty
glad to have one of tham for the collection, in order to prove

by the claws as well as the skull tl:iat Ursus sldrasi is a Brosm
Bear, not a (Jriszly.

With best wishes to you all,

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}Sr. llapoldon A. Comeau,
THrrt NalBorit

HudBon Bay, Canada.

5fy dmur Ifr. Coraeaa:

Your welcome letter of June 27 reaches me just as
I am leavii^ for California* I expect to start in the
Tiiernlng with nrr wife and younger daocjiter, Zenaida, in air
own automobile, and hope to reach oiar surrmer home at i.a^^i^ritae
hy the end of the Tnonth*

So you are off on another loqg exploring *rip, this
time to Hudeon Ba^! I congratulate you on your opportunity,
aid also on your youthful enthusiaam which I am glad to eae
has not 3^t hegan to ahate* Yoei stsrely will satisfy your
oxmrinp: for a Polar Bear, and doubtless also will secure a
namher of Seals and other Interastiir; nBaraals. Ths small
lOBSials in particular are hound to he worKi savii^, as wc
hare next to nothing from the eastern side of the Bay, This
reminds me that it would be a good thirg to make inquiries
of the natlrea to find out if they know Bnythinf: about the
so-called Labrador Grizzly* of cciurse they are perfectly
fanfliar with the Ice Bear and the Black r^ear; the questica
Is, do they know a large Bear of the interior which i» not
a Black Bear? Trom time to time mention Ims been oade of a
Sriaaly in the interior of LabradOTt but no skull or skin
hJM oyer been brought out so far as I am aware. Such a

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he willing to pay $200 for an adult.

fruatiiB that you will have a most successful
Toyage and return In safety with a treasure of i:tfomation
about the natural history of tie region, which wUl affoni
you material for a book on' your" return, with best wishes.

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5ir. W. H. '^ase,

Jwieaut Alaaica.

D,e«ur Sir:

Tour lettarB of Juno 12 and 19 arrlred d'oly, aiid

the firet batch of Bear Bkulle came also, tut the Becoiid batch

ime net yet come. I «a r^ad that you have sent tbe=n however.

and -they will he taken care of during ^ aleance. As you do

not ."iroa list of them, it is i-ipoeaihle for rae to tnake cub

a voucher, hut I will have a memorand^jm sont me and will

attand to it later.

I have credited you $40 for the B.-ar skulls vrtiich

cane in a short tiuie aco. as par yovT lottor of June 12
(2 froi3 Snettis'-Ltti at $10 aach, the front of aji old broken W^
male froa ChicbaGOf ste. ea\ old fenale from Douclas Isla^id $8,
ard a mle Black Bear frcDi Doue;la8 Island H*)

Tliese skulls had no taf^. It is very important
that each skull should be tavred tritSa t'.e locality as nsar as
you ki-iOT7 it, ever; if the rast of the ini" or mt ion Called for
ca:r:.ot be r-ivan. A batch of ta^s is sent 3''0u berewitb in

other envelope.

In oases where you cannot aacartain the locality
with certainty, it ie better to say so rather than take the
chance of labeling a skull as coniirr from the wrong place,
'libera were one or two errors of this kii^d In the first lot.

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eipect to be gone until the latter part of S.pte^ >ber. ^^^
addreas mrtil then will l.e La^:nitas. l^in Co.. Calif oxiia.

In case you obtain^any ni^re-Bd|r8^ they mfey be
shipped as b,^fore, addressed t6 the'siological Survey,
Department of Acrlculture. 7;here they will Be tikeh cire of

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give' you ' T?.it ift'^e 'iiJifcamticar^orAKQ 8u^jee'Vls^ecnt:a^Ked
in Ms latter. Ha says: 'Tit least '^^-^ of the^Bear skulls
were taken on vaku River." AleoVthat the lajngeat skull is
frcm Admiralty jslard; that anoriher skull is from an urtoiown

polirt an the irairJsu'ii* Tliis is all*

I cliall te oblired if j^ou Trill kindly sartl ne a
c::>niorsrJl^» to Ia{::Jnitas telling me just ??tat t^iie shijrjent
consists oft aiid enou{^ ato^at the cc?«iiticn of the skulls to
enalle me to put a price oti them.

Sorry I ras not alle to £^et dcwn to the ISciseum urtil

you had gene*

with last wishes kcA kind regards to Ilrs* Jackson,

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Infornation

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Dear ProfocBor Codka:

^^.'^^•^•.^"•OMe. after the head Mde, and teet bad ,
been taken off^ and after the hlw4 *hml ,e8cm»d imd"tl»

If you wlU drop Ml a IJnq addreaeed to ]ia0?nlt
Karin Co. . California. I ehaU be creatlY ohlt-ed, "

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Vjn Thaita. for your letter of ivS^ 231. t «! ^lad ?

to kncir t^j^.yo? a» fllrely ^^o'sacfdn one oi^ more Griszly
sc^jikxCUp^lpr mp darjh^ the prawrifc aeaaon. I b^I Tio ^aad

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prt^ortioriately laes for fermlos, ymicig,

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T^; and I WM-Tsrr g:la4 to aaeyoqr handwrltinp: again, and
to leamtlAt ycu ^pe ffeU and fltlU fln the hunt.

-. The inf Qcaatlon you rive about that Grtszxyiaaiea

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certafely ntirt

want to aea the.irpecjiniwu

ttoa«ter* Aether 9r not the^skln car: 'be «fetbhed as large
vou wish, I do not teigr* I an juat setting out for
Callfcria to be r>one until about the end of Septe/jter, but
if you will senl the alcln arid alrall by arprea«t addreseed to no
at the Biological Surrey, they will be presenred In the fire-
proof build i JIB un^-^il ay return* I wUl then put It fa the
hands of a akfllful tazidexmlat and aee Trhat can be done fa
the way of relaxing it. Ihe akoll I am particularly anzioua
to seat and if jtni can not aell it I shall be ?lad of the
privilege of ett^rteg It, and ^11 hold It subject to your
call. I wish Y^u would scwid ^e all the Bear slcalls you have
on hand or can ^eta 1 ^111 pay good prices for them according
to sisot sex, and coxilitla::. If they cone ^.ile I m apway,
they will be l^en care of. You will of co^.ursa fact en a liag
to aach cne stating w^ere and iqpprcxinately when it was Idlled*

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We are greatly oUfeed for thj. o»l you sent, K

i. •« interesting apecinen. a>:d oar taxM««iat hae etaffac
It in good ahag^.

It y<ra have any fountain Lion akulla. I should be
^•ry ^ to gat a. many of ttxec aa yoc can send, and wQl
p»7 ftran $2 to $3 each fcr unbroken akulla.

Holll3ter la here, and «aa glad to hear frcni you
«d aex^ Ma ragarda to you. Temon Bailey ie m Oregon. ,
I hoperio see him in Oalifomia in atout a .uonth.

Wit! baet wiahea,

"^^xy truly yoca»,

PS. P»<*««6e« of apectoma ahould be aent by e^reaa, charges
collect, and addressed U.S. Biological Surrey, Derartn,ent of
/gricJture, Vaahingfcon, D.C. Your ^ nana and address ahcld
be written on the upper left hand comer of the package.

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0<>lonulo Springs, Colo.

Ify de«r l!r. 5«rroti:

Yott finally ilippad amy "before 1 realised thA
yoa hid gene, a» I hid eapected to see you sgftln.

For soM tirae I hKf baen Intending to write you
atout the Bear stalls which you so kiridly loaned me a long
time ago. There are. If I raaenber correctly, 4 Blarfc Bean
and 2 Crisslles. One of t*B«e arlsslles Is a young fetaale
labeled BeUa BeUa. and prohahly was killed on the »Balnland
la the general region of Bella Bella. The othar is an old
mle f ran Blue Kiver, Simrdt Co.. Colorado. This latter
skull I rfould like to neke tl» tjpe of JTrra Iftlrdl. ■»
interestii^ species of which I hare examined a nonber of
specirasns fron Colorado, ^ondjjg. «"! eastern i;:cirfcana. It
seesis t^ortant that this speclraen should he preaerred in our
national iSueerm alor^ with the other types of big Bears. If
you are willii^ to part with It therefore, I shall be glad to
pay you $60 for it, and if you care to, dispose of the Innatura
fermle fron Bella Bella I would pay $15 for It, or $65 for the

Tomorrow laornli^ I expect to set out with my family
by aaicnoblle for California, and hope to reafuJx flay sunner hone
at LaciuTiltac by the eid of the month. If yoo will kindly drop ae
a line -pressed at la^ciitas.llann Co. .Calif omia. I shall

•lata the faror. . ,

!7tth kind rep|urds to your sister,

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Ur. A. Hiasselborg,

JHineau, Alaska.

Dear Sir:

Tour letter of MKy 30 ea.iB duly, and I was yoij glad
to knov that you were setting out on a hunt for ae. In
accordance with this, I have had a cfheck for your June salary
($150) sent you at Juneau, as per preTious agreement.

'Swo fine big skulls of adnli Bears, one a Brown Bear,
the othar a arissly. which you sent from Seymour Canal, have
just arrived, and I am ml^ty glad to have than. If you
purchased them, I irtU remit on haarli^ trm you.

I should be glad to have you hunt big Bears for me
for two or three montha at the sam rate. If this is agreeable
to you. I am particularly anxious to secure skulls from Litiiya
Bay and Olacler Bay, as well as fron the Lynn Canal region ani
other points along the coast, lituya Bay and Bartlett Bay
are as faportant localities as any I know, particularly slnee
there Is 8om doiAt as to the sex of the Bear you killed on
Bartlett Bay, Snattisham Is anotiier irf^poriazit locality.

As I cannot delay my Bear book longer than the
coning fall, I trust you will use evAry effort to secure as raanj
skulls as possible during the present sumoer and early fall.

Tooorrow I am leaving for California where ray address
until the latter part of Septe'^er will be Lagunltas, 'larin Co.

Very truly yours.

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lidaiy t^ittdu f tc your eotirtasy in aoDdl
Toe a copj of IVae'a tmllatin on i&e Tcpograxhie
Taatixrea of the Deaort Basins* It cmtalns moch
matter of Interest to rm.

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T^Ith klna«rt «g«^ to TOO .U. not foi^ettl^

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"uly 2, 1914.

'"rinnsll;

Yo-ur letter of .'•nm 23 can» dkiy. You Trere rirht

In »«8'aaiir€ ••-'T** ©^^ ds^artoiw >ad Lean delayed.

Sorry I «ui*t a-CTrar your, ciuaaticn as to Trhethsr
or not s liifc was nad<» of the llVrary carried by the
narriman-Alaclra Kxpodl-Hiofu I don't remeirrihar •eainp; auidi
a lt«t, Tbut t^is ie r^o proof of conrse that ore vms '^ot mdoe

^lad ycu had a day rrtth Sheldon in tl^ ?flOUPtaii3S
of Varracnt. Wiah T could have ^bean with yotu

lira* ITorriaa. Zenaida, aril I expect to put the
finishing touchaa on oar packing tonight, and mean to 'jet
off hri&ht and sarly in the -noming* We hope to arrive at
T.agtciitaa ahoiit the end of t^e mopth. STiall he (Jad to ' .^ar
from 70U th3re%

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be obliged If yon will ^Ire me eani. of Introduction
to the Ohlefjj^of P^aie, *t f«a. Ohey^u-. «i aait
lA* City. , If y^a irtii 10^ «a. to » at Clinton. Io.a.
I will oaU «t the poetoff lea « ay my throo^.

■S^ttklflg yoa for -cur coorte^r In the mtter,

Very truly yoora.

Dr. &eo. Bird (Jrinnell,

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at Lagini^'^aa, Ibrin Oc« , Oalif crnia. all 1^^- fir rull

«xldraBficd to :m at 1919 • 16th 8tre^; or at The Mcr-huiabdrland

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mail delivardd at ttie ttor^hitifrerlaid. i^ere iz trlU be

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Today I an clftci;^^, am Vo^ae, 1910 - i-.^h

Stre^ii. for the sewoc, and do net -^^^ - 1"

» R-^-ao ncT, axj,d<rt -.c return '

bafora the and of gerfeiVr I fl'..n ,_ .,.

you will kindlr ImTl* ▼<>■» i5«+rM-».^ V

tba ho.i»a froei ti» t<,. ti^ „ thay pa«B.

.raouU «;^b^i)g. ocaur to^ racr.ire a .Mention.
Pl^a acolfy ,. W. H.l.c.,. H. W,.Hana^. or Br. T. 8.
KWr. Biolp^cal Su^ey. ,^^,, ,, i^i.ult^^.

• Ife- addraae tmtU iept^aiiber viU be Lagunl^aa

iferi-n Ocunt;-. Calif or :iia. ., ^ *^

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electric <..rrent *t t:« .*1^ ««^-<^ f.v i,o.:»a.

^'^' at *Aa front of the lior»»^.
u^er the atone "^"^ '^^ ^-y,, H6r-.>^ .wl.nl.

Ifcr Office. A!.art^9^ TOl x« ■

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unfcil irrr reti^m,

RasT-act folly.

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5 »«a lid* Co.

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402 iionadr/ock Building^

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Ties.r Sirr

Tour letter vjnA varicus bills, dated October 28,

are before lae. I iras a little Qijri^rised to receive them be-

Tore the cc^apletion of Uie work on the garage, which up to

the date of rny departure from Lagunitas had not been fin*

iuhed* , .

There are several r-attors in connection with the
work and your b511s for save wMcl^ require consideration*

When you first brou^^ht yvnr foreman, Grant Whet-
iTOre, tc see ine about building the garage yr-u said th-^ x^rk
would be dona in about ton days. I think this w' uld have
teen the case if the man you first sent had remained, as he
was a competent and rapid worker. But after workinr; three
or tliree and a half days, he left suddenly and never re-
turned. After a tedioug delay cf a couple of weaka or so,
the second plaeterer came, and finiahed the plafltering
prrmptly. This waa followed by additional delays, wait-
ing fcr the doors, sky-lir^l-.t ^-lasa, hardware, and bo on.
Withc^jt going into tirescne details , the work was done lit
driblets, aa you know, dragcinc on for a period of about

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ised to come back in a tew days with the lock f.r the
front door, which he said had to be altered. He failed to
bring it. M week later he wrote m that ho wouic t,rinc the
lock the following Saturday, but then also failed to show
up. There were one or two other thin,-s he was going to
attend to, but of course did not.

DOORS.— You doTibtless ranember that in speak-
ing of the doors in the beginning I told you that I wanted
folding dcors, four-ply, and wanted good Irokinr ones—
not bam doors— as they were to fcnn a part of tlie front-
age of my hc'use* You said you wruld attend to tbJe and
would send good lonking doors, but Arhen th^y arrivad they
were ordinary barn doors and made in two piooea irtat^md of
four. I told Whetmore I would not accept them, but wae
lling to pay the difference between their cost and Uie
cost of new ones rrade according to a diagram I gave him.
The new ones cost $16:«00 and with boxing and freight were
entered oit Pedrini^s bill, which 1 paid, at tZO.OO, but
in yr.ur bill you enter them at ^5.00 and make no allow-
ance for the first ones- •which, by the way, were sold at
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$:12.00 f-r moldlog around dcor-way. This ttob done imder
,>iaV'ore'8 diraction bM wae not called for by ra«. Tou
offered tc out a fancy ■noldinr alor^ ths top, b'^t I did not
care for t}uB» I thou^-iht the top aboulc' have been thickened
o, littirt over t>» front di.ors so as to project outward a
half an inch or so, but this was not dcre.

RETAINING WALL. --In the beginning: both y>u and
WhetMore assured me that the retaining wall along the
front of Mz-^ fiarage would bs inexpensive tc build, adding
only a lit-tlo t.< Uw coat of the f^araFre; but in your bill
you have oharr;9d for^$lS6.00 and have added feO.OO more
for "filling back wall*--ar.d t'lia notw! tlisUoTdin^; Ihe fact
that I furnisiied tiie fp-av^^l and moat of th«i la'.or. Half
of the amcunt cliarfr,*3d w-vlii bo a very long ^rice for the
work.

ASH HOUSK.--.Ydu have chargad 426.00 for plaster-
ing the ash b-u88--a a-aall affair about the size of my
desk, la a mattijr of fact, the plaa'..*rer worked less tlian
a day on it--ab-ut half of one day and a cmnle of hours
t'is next, and I f^jrnishrtd th« gravel and the helper.
Ten dollars v^r.Jd seer, to be a liberal charge for this Bmall
piece of work. .

LEAKS »— In tm baginninr: yrv told me that you
Wfuld #ater-proof the tcp ar.d enter aide cf the gara,«?e.

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^hree aides. Later, Ihetmore brcurht

up Boiae cenont paint and tcld A ff k.., i,

1- a i» .cxa A. ». houck. a painter who

happened to be doing some work for n. at tl« tiae to '
give the top ^.hree coats. T.Ae was done, but t^ r.xt
rain etUl ca..e in thrown, the roof, y-.c.gl. not in .o -^^
places a* before and in r,uch less quantity. U also ca«>e
ir. on all three sides ^i:e c«. ae befon,. I then had the
painter go over it again and ^oaint the outer wall on the
r.utside and the entire garage on ^he inside, fccther
rain, wliich came before 1 left, cai.sed a few leak». ttcu^
less extensive than the others. * good deal of wa^^r
comes in at the Tindcwa, whJch are hinged from the tcp,
with a broad open crack bHlow, instesd of baJng hting
ah the. bottcffi and open at the top, as y.„ ^.^-.^ y,^ ^.^^^
hang triezc.

You will recall hhtit I apoka to bc-iL ^^ou and
fhetffcre abrut th^ danger of raJn coiaing in between tiie
side of the porch and the garage wall. fhetir:ore said he
would prevent this by putting tin up under the last row of
shingles above the concrete and bringing the sane down
into the coftcrete. ThijB was not dene and as a conse-
quence this wall weta through with overj.- rain.

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GRST)ITS.--»In; your account ycu credit me with

Pexirlni^B bill of ^^0.45, which I paid at Whetmcre^'e r©-

qjtHst, but this 15 only one of a nvuiiber of credit itema

dw me, as Whetmore paid few, if any, of t?ie Lagunitaa

bill^ in ccnnaction with the garage work* The following

itatem^nt shows the Emoujnta paid by mer

Sept. 14 - I^srrario ft f>o., hauling cement frcm

fitaticn ( two 4-nule teams) — fr?«50

Oct. S - Gft-ah advanced to Whataore by roquesH. ----20.00
Oct. 3 • L. L| rarker, miximr concrete.

4-3)4 davs - .- 1.^. 14.25

« Pedro, helping liartinalli mix and

carry cmcrete, 3 days at »2.50 7*50

Oct. 17, . Pedrini Sroa., j^aterials (including

doors) -- -- 50.45

Oct. 24, it. Gr. Houck, painting garage rocf.

three ccats, »6.00, outer side $2.50 -- 8.50
• 1. G. HcuCiC, sl*^i^*G three sky-

ll^ts, top and bottom 1.00

Whetoore, unpaid board bill at Miss Rrefe^s 31.50

borrowed of Maxtinalli ^.66

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2'inkttrsi drain ((Trane Co., San Frui:cisco) ---------I 12*00

oF'rlre£2^ pamtinfT cailinr and inner sidea

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•Rub latter an-ant, *^}5.50, I did not intend to
chains for. expectinc to lat it f:o a« an of feet a^rainst
the additional thicicneso of r^talni.nr, ^all and extras.
But if ycu d3e.T it proper to eubmit cnch a bill of extraa
as crntainad in your statarrent cf October 26, 1 ahall bo
obliged, cf course, tc charge the :vhole axacunt (Jte-11.85)
the Ba^e having baon the cash actually already paid by me-

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triHMing tlM excavation for the garage.

Herewith I enclose r.y check on the Crocker Nation-

al Bank of Son Pr^nciaco for *200.00. ,.a]dng tc date
^541.66 which I have paid for the JcV. T.U U nearly
95200.00 more than ycu gave .;e tc understand the ^rk ;.culd
cost, ond U in sxcesa of a bid I had for th.e same vrork
in solid reinforced concrete of much lieariar oon«*.x-act,ion
than ycurs.

rnat iG the *40.05 added tc your bill of extras,
and why? And do you think of any reason why I should be '
called on to pay for the Ion. and annoying d.l^^c in the
ccnstrjction cf the garage, due to ro fault cf ranc^

There is ixncther matter connected vrith the ^^ork
which ycu probably understand and which, because of Mr.
Whetracre^s uniforra pcliteneBS tc me, I prefer not to
speak of«

Respectfully,

P. y.

The photographs you asked for I had intended to

send by Whetmore, but as he failed to appear after ^hey

were printed I an onclosinp: thsm herewith.

One of the skylight glasses beftan to crack a day

or two after it was put in and tlie crack c ntinued all Uie

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In ea«a Whetinora did not take the front door
lock to Lagunitas 1 shall be obliged if ycu will send it
by parcel pest, addrossad to Arch U. Trilbert, Lsgunitaa,
Califorria.

Whetmcre left a few tools in the gara^. They
are etill there, awaiting; his call.

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W«vaiaber 17,1914.

i shall be obliged if you will send another bevel
gear ring for the differential cf my (Chevrolet Big 6,
Cla88 C, Wc. 176, liddreseed tc Thayer fJara^e, SaaR^ael,,
Caliiomia^ Pleaao aond tho bill tu ni© here at Wasliiiir^ tea

Nearly all the ..utaide coraors of the teeth urs
trokdn off. In acue of tlioiu nearly half of *«ja tooth is
gona. The bevel ring has 5S testh, trie pinion 13. Taa
pinion is in good condition, so that we need only the
beTel ring.

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Bear Er. ll^tjer:

Th&iika Tor yuura cf tlia 6th in&t. about the
bevel ring. £ luLVd Grddrsd a udw onet to be sent to you
direct frcm tlie Chevrolet Ocinpany%

In talking to you vbsn I left the car I forgot
to mention the gasoline tank, wl ich as you ruLieiaber Iiaa
sosiid dirty wat^r in the bottu:^* Plo«kSc^ have it tiiorw»ugh*
ly/ clodjiod. Tlxere is a bi^ opening in tii& top of the
tank uiTcidr the left-hand seat, mad^ on purpose for clean"
iiife the tank.

Please see if you can stop the various noises
and creaking about Lm car. It may be that thfi valve
stains need tig}it«ning a little. Tiiey can be reaci^ed
easily by tukim? off the aide pieces of the motor. It
laay be also that the carbon needs cleaning from the pis-
ton heads.

With reganie to you all.

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iTx)?effiber 17, 1&14.

'Phoin^ Murphy, T?Bq*

Mock&Vurg^ ^

Humboldt Gb., C3!alif.

Dear Sirr

On arriving, in ffabliinf;to2i later than* expected, I

find your iattera of October 21 and October 25 waiting at^-
tention. 1 aluo found at the Wells Fargo Fxpreea Office
the fresh bear skin you sent October 21. You laado a ee**
rious mistake in sendi?!^ this tlie way you did instead of
following my directions* I asked you to address packages
to the U'. fi. Biological survey, Departinent of ii^ricrJture,
Wasldnf^ton, n. C Instead of doing this you sent it fl*
0* D. to my house add re as • And as 1 did not reach home \x[^
til about three v/aeks after the skin arrived, azA as tlie
skull was not skinned out, decomposition liad sdt in arid
the Iiaira on the face arid top of hoad had loosened bo
tiiat they came out yesterday when the tajudermist under-
took to prepare the skin* If you hiid sont it to tlie
fiiolo^i;ical Survey as roquosved it would have been open-
ed ixTid att^:"ided to inariediatcly on its arrivals

I aliii.ll be i^lsid to see your grizzly bear Ekuil
aiui will pay you $20 for it, u\ accordance with your
letter of October 23. Plsaao sorid it witk any other

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Survfly, !3epartiaent of ifericulture, fa^ldnptcn, D. C,
charssB ccllact, and I will romt on receipt of the '
specimens.

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Jtrcli ii. Cfilbert, Es^.,

MbXiu Co., Calif.

Dear Arch:

Ycur father Iiaa dcubtleaa given y^u T>ha latent
lidwa ai» to our departura and Vue location of the keya
wiilGli wo loft wlidi laartixidlli. ix)d wi^n yuu arrived at
tlie rar;ch ycu doubtless fourid the various ludiuoraixia wliich
¥6 left on the table in the liviiig room.

There were various little terminal odde and ends
that I had intended to attend to parttonally before leav-
ing, but at the end was bo pressed for time ;:«hat I r-r^ij
hard work to uake tiie train. Please bear t;xiitt in mind
>/hen you fino various tilings in uy office and in other
^ilacea *hich should liave been put away|and m&n jou find
little thinf';B undone Arhica should have been done. For
instance, the iiinges of Uie various doors need oiling,
but I did not get arcund to limbai* theiu u^. 5>huuld you
cai'3 to undertake tiiis arduous o^ioration you f^xll fj.nd an
oil can arid plenty of i-xn one on one of the shelves ia
the store-room near ti^e boiler*

Should the long expected lock for the front door
arrive while you are holding Uie fort, kindly place it ini
cold storage until next spring, unless you feel venture-

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•rot«nhn- ^'^ P""^ ^t ^n Piaxja yourself. I

had net h. • ^^"^ ^« tc you if it

^ net oeen provioualy dciiverad.

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Pacxa^a and ne.spa^r ^l over to you.

^ titia bast .ls.«s to you both, ^^ ...^ting that

ycu will suffer no hftnit^+i •

ier uo nesatation in aa^ir^ all U,e quas-

tions that ijrasant themselTas,

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R. Wober, Esq.,

Victoria Mu8«xim,

Ottawa, Canada.

Dear Mr. Wab«r:

Your letter of th« 4th inat. waa on my deek
awaiting my return from California. I cannot yet speak
positively about future work in drasring and in improting
Bkuli photographs, but expect to have some work ready

early in January.

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Rhx Kb land, Ksq.,
Luning,
Ssuidralda Ob., Nevtida.
Itear Sirt:

Tour letter of the 5th inst. is at haiid. My
interest in apecimena oi big game animals from Alaska
and other parts of America is centered en material pre*
pared for museum purposes — not rags or moimUHi neaas*

I am glad to know that you have the skull of an
Jtlaaka grizaiy. I should be very glad to see your skull,
and probably to purchase it^ if it is labeled with the lo*
cality where killed, lit should be sent by express,
charges /collect, aOdro&sed to U. S?. Biological Survey,
I^partruent of Agriculture, Washington, T). d'., and should
bear a label giving the locality whene killed, approximata
dat«„ s«x if known, and your own name and address.

Hy work on Xihe big bears will not gc lo press
for several montiis, so I am still anxicus to see as many
skulls as possible frcm known localix^ies.

I will make a note of the rugs and heads you mei^
tion and aiiall take ploasure in 'mentioning them to friends-
Unfortunately. I do not at present know of any one who is
in search of this kind of material, but may at any tinie.

Very truly yours,

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BbvoBibsr 17, 1914,

Pro fa 880 r K. S. Woodward,

Preeidont Carnegie Institution,

Waaiiington, D. (3,
Dear Frofsaaor Woodward?

On reiiurning from California 1 find mention of
Uio publications by th.6 Carnegie Institution which I
have not seen, and should like to possess, munely:

Handbook of Indians of Canada, hy F. W. Hodge.

Diatributicn arid Kovaments of Desert Plants, by
7. K. Spalding.

I Bhail be obliged, therefore, if you will kind-
Ijrhava tfaese sent to my office at Ilie Northumberland
with bill for sa^ne.

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Mr. C. B. Bllioot,

Lagunitas^ ^

Marin Co., California.
Dear Mr. Elliott:

1 shall be obliged if you will kindly turn over
my magaaine, 1 newiipai)©!;, duti package mail, during x,ne
winter, to Irch M. Gilbert, who will occupy my houae at
Lagunitaa. Pleaae forwoni iett>er mail as usual to my
WashingtOT address, 1919 Sixteenth Street.

Mrs. Merriafii and I wera so pressed for tiLid at
the last that we were not able to call on your family, as
ezpocted^, uo say good bye%

With kind regards to you all.

Very truly yours.

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Mr. CJeorgo H* Morthrup,
Hot l^pringB,

Tuiai^ So., Oaii-f.
Bear S^irr

Early in October I wrote you inquiring a.bouu a
specimen of griazly bear in your poBsession and also
about the probateility of getting hold of soine skins and
skulls of .vclves -•particularly skulls-^frcjii California*
!Iid you receive my letter? I shall be very p-lad tc hear
from you on the subj'ect.

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Kr. Gharlio Uieka,

Fort Jones, Claafornia.
fcar Sirr

Dr. SterUng Bbnnell. of San Franc.eco. xnfcnaB
- that you ara a bear hunter and are in a position t.
^t BicuUs for museum purposes. I should be ^la, to pur.
chase t«n bear skull, from your region at, prices ra..ging
from one to three dollars each, accorxixng to sex, .ge, a«i
condition, provided each slcull is labeled with the lo-
• cality »here killed, approxin^te date. sex. and your ow«
name*

Specimens aliould be securely packed and sent
by express, charges collec-., addressed to U. g. Biologic-
al Survey, ^D^rtnwnt of ^riculture, Washington, :&. !^.

!)o you also get coyotes, mountain lion«, or any
other aniraalg?

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Sarx G-oronimo, CTalifomia.
Dear Ur. Oardner:

SRinca roturniru!: to Waslungton I have bsen expecting
to hoar from you about tha Lagimit;a8 land, but thus far no
word hae arrivsd. I ehould bo fi;;lad to know at your earliest
convenionco whether or not the Lagunitas Develojpment Company
are going to sail me the land which I supposed I had pur*
chased until I learned that the alleged sale was not a sale
at all, but a contract with strings attached to it* ils I
told you, i decline to be a party to aay transaction of this
kind. Ill the company desires to really sell the property to
ma^ I sliall be p;lad to forward ikt once the remaining tZSi
in pajTuent for same. If not,! shall be obliged if you will
kindly return the ^co which I paid you on account when i
supposed I had purchased the larri,

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November 18^ 1914.

Mr. irthurS. Bannon,

Oare of Cbl. J. *• McSUir©,
Ttenver, Oolorado.

Ky dear Sirt

Your articles in Outdoor Life of October and Novom-

bar interoBt me very much, particularly the parts relating

to tiie hunting and killing of grizzly bears in the region of the

•outh fbrk of Macmillan River.

For some years past I have boen enj^aged in a wcrk on
the Big Bears of North America and have succeeded m bring-
ing tof^ether at our National L^useiim iiore than five hundred
skulls of grimly and big brown bears. The study of this
material shows that there are m Alaska a number of per>-
fectly diatinot species of big bears. Of some of these we
nave ample material; of others, not enough to admit of work-
ing cut tiie characters of the species satisfactorily. The
only skulls I have seen frcm the ?.^acmillan River region were
those collected by Gharles Sheldon, of New York, and Dr. R.
Houston, of Kalispell, Montana. I am most anxious, there«»
fcre^ to see adaitional skulls of griziilieB, particularly
adults of hoth sexes, fruB txus region. 1 take the liberty,
therefore, of asking if you hc».ve any skulls which yv could

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collect, addrsssed to U. ?. Biiiologic&l Survey, Departeent
of igricioltwre, Washington, D. C.

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150& Le Roy Ave.,
Berkeley, Calif.

Dear

About the end of October, when I was still at Logunitac.
you were kind enough to invite me thro;;i6h llr !?idney Clark to see
your collection of Indian Baskets at your hone in Berkeley. This
I intended doing until the last moment when there proved to be so
■uy last thijqgs needing attention that I was net able to fret away
troB iH^p^itas in time to see you before taking the train '^ast.

I expect, liowaver, to return to California in "Qa^ early .
spring, so then hopo to give myself the pleasure of calling, on you

Should you ever visit Washington I sliould to most happy
to show you my collection, which comprises about a^- f^^cusand bas-
kets, most of which are Trom California.

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NbvatDbar 23, r914^

Tkuar Dr. Stephens r

(JbntinuGUB pressure of work since my arrival

has kept me from writing until tlie present nioment.

We went down froia Lagunitas to San Francisco
on Saturday afternoon, November 7, and left for the
Kast tiae next day (SWiday). You will understand, there-
fore, why I was not able to see you. I arrived in
time, iiowover, to get my distance glasses from ihe Gai-
ifomia Optical Company before they closed Saturday
evening, i was sorry not to be able to take thew to
you for exaaimation, but believe them to be all right,
as they have net troubled me in the least. Botli pairs
of glasses seein to be exactly wiiat I needed, as my eyas
}iave steadily improved and t/ie headaches I spoke to ycu

about have disappeared. This, ai:icn^ nun^erous other
tilings, i have to thank you for.

it h&tt been cold hero ever since we arrived -•
vory different from La^jiitas weather.

Yestdrday I had a lonr: ride in the new o-cylinder
Cadillac. Ajconiing tc my taste it is not nearly so
good looking as the C2ievrolet 6, ncr does it run so
quietly en higli, but it has much more power and has a
wcnd^erful range on high. We covered all sorts of ccun-
try, mcludim; 8o.:s fairly stiff grades, without changing

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<» greatest advantac-e seQ/P«H f^
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^. ^0 do almost everything on high.

5?he new Dodge Brothers car has n.f *
rived hn+ ■! » ^-ar nas not yet ar-

nved, but IS expected next week I «« i ,,•
• »o*«4 + weeic. L am looking for-

ward to a ride in it with m„«i, •

«™ • ^' "^"^ interest. % far a^ I

^ ^"fomed, the choice of cars in f • '^ '^ ^ ^

tween the (^.vrolet 4 (called 1 .t" ''" '^"

new Dodge car. . ^°"''^' ^^^^^ ^^b^iLra^d) and the

CO Office T:z Ti!"" r ^"^ " ^^"^ '^-^--«'

a few well de T . '""^^'^ strain and add

"w well deserved years to your life^

I wonder if Bn.ce received the drinnell books 1
mailed hiin from San Francisco.

■ Please ,:ive lay love to Elizabeth and tell h.r

tnat I have not forgotten her by any .ean..

-ir. in wMch M^t^^'^' '' '"• ''^^^^"^ -^ ^--
. in wnich Mrs. kerriatn and Zenaida join,

i3e ever.

Dr, 1, Barclay Steph

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iCltt<jeda, California.

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November 2i5, 1914.

Publisher of forest and Stream,

22 Thames Street,

ITew York City.
Dear Sirr

The receipt todajr of .'>nly a BiTW:fe»copy —instead
of two copies -- of last Saturday*8 Forest and Stream re-
minds me that several similar instances have occurred
during the past few months. I wonder if there is some way
by wiiich this laay be avoided in future, so that i may
receive tiie two copies of each issue as subscribed for,
without having to write a special letter on the subject.

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mber 23, 1914.

Deeir Ircfa:

lbrr»„ t^ny ha. b,.„ a„^„,.i, , ^^ ^

postman each da* ii«+i i +v^ , "

acn day unwil tne several a.ember8 of the fa„ulv are on

.tne vor^ of norvous collapse. I be« ^>.«..r ., '

infc8ra«tn-r. "^ '^^S' -^'^rofore, tlutt in the

m&erost of xiuiuanity y u will aai^a +>,= '•■ ^

m your way and send a few linea *n ^v,- r> •..

, ^ ^^®° "° the District of Columbia in

order to relieve tlie tension before it breaks.

lasting that lirs. Gilbert has not cc^itted ouioide
and that yr.u have not vamoosed the ranch.

Yours as ever,

lir. Ircii IL Silbert^
l-a^iunitas, Galif.

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Cr.evrolet Motor tJcmpany, *
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Knclofled herewith io my check for $23.50 for

one bevel ring 53-12, recently shipped by you to Thayer

(xarafce, San Rafael, California, by dxpresB, ae per

companying bill.

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Comriiiflsioner of internal Rbvenue,
Treasury Department,

Washington, D. S.
Dear Sirr

i shall be obliged if you will kindly send mo
about thirty of your new blank fornis of certificate twr
attachrxient to coupons on which the paj^me^^t of income

is guaranteed by the company; also a doaen blanks
for ccupona from which the income tax is to be deducted;
also any circular on the suoject in case one has been is*
sued since last May or June.

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Nbvambar 24, 1^14,

Dr. CSharleB D* lalcott,

Sfecret>ary SmitiiBoniiin Institutionv

lashington, D. C.

Dear Dr* Walcott::

In compliance with your recjuett, I encloae
herewith a memorandum concaming the wort done under the
Harrimar trust* it may be Longer than you desire, in
which case you will, of course, strike out wiiat you do

not need»

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^c.al fund establishad by lira K ff p. ■

•^i-is of .ne bxg Duars of Aaorica and hae crv^t,- •,,
completed txie reeearch .ork, i^^t.cally

^ addition tc ths tachnical «tnH--. ..
of earlv 8xt.7o.«+- ^nnical studxes, Urn literature

^^ly exploration and hunting in tha »«»+
oart. of +1, western and ncrthenr

brown bears. Of the various libr^r-

fruitful have been the Oo Jes I; Tr '^ ''^ ""''

the Jiancroft li>, -^"^^^"^onal J.brary at Washington and

«ie iiancroft librarj^ of the Unj varsi tv of Ckl : f. . •

th. Officer. Of both of which insWtuWc, ha,, axt^^I,
courte.y to facilitate «,, work. *^ "'"^

0»in(t to the Bcarcitv of «A,lt • ,.
■-«. U^ i. ».e.a the tae. hZr: I"" ^'^
-^ia. for cHtiea: co.^i.o„ hae Zl^^: Z^'
r^hen.™. o.i^ to tho n^her of ,ear. „.,„, ^^^ar.

ti.e. a^ coneequantly of thoee UUed b, hu„u„ arTil
"tui-e. Hence only a ^.all proportion o the .^u. '

"ire thoae of adult, and of -h- .- . """""'

"»M, and ol .he.e tne female, alwava far ,„t
numoer the male. !„ » ■'^"oyB r«r out-

actor, not exhibited by e.ther female, or iemturl .

"^t it i, „„ce..a,^ to ha,e adults of r,""""' ""'"• «
tn ^-f *«auit8 of Dotli BQxas in order

to detenrune the distinctive characters of ■

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»ince many of the species are already extinct the available
skulls are apportioned very iinequally, the extinct species
and those approacliing extinction being;, naturally the most dif«
ficult to obtain.

However, recent accessions have filled several em-
barrassing pa-ps, making it possible for the first time to de-
termine the relations of most of the species and to arrange
them in definite proups. Of the true grizzlies there appear
to be about thirty-eirht species and subspecies, representing
a dosen groups; of the big brown bears, about ten species,
representing five groups. Owinir to ^iie prevalent misconception
that tne larger Liaiimals do not split up into many species, tlie
number of big bears requiring recognition will come as a sur-
prise*

The National collection comprises the specimens in the
National iiuseum proper, and these of the U. S. Biological Survey,
the two together constituting by far the most complete and
valuable series of bear skulls ever assembled in any part of
the world. Its unique valxie lies not only in the large number
of species and type specimens it contains -- comprising all
but two of the known forms and the types of all but four of
the species 'of big bears thus far described from North Anerica --
teat also, in the case of certain species, in splendid series
of adults of both sexes and young in different stages of devel*
dpaent- This is the outcome of twenty-four years of continuous

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those who have ^aner.u«lv P^cmnent a«,ong

the Nat,- • / ^'""^"^^-^ P^««^ted skulls of bi^ boars to
tne National collection are Charlaa q>,pi ■ «.

fi^. ^ederlek Norte. Bu ^T "' ^^""''^ ^' ^°««'

CK wcrtcn, Blton darlc, J. fl. Kidder Robert K m >

Seonce kixter, Dr. W jo«„„ u- . » *^^^'

Otaeron. Ur. B. Hou.ton, fredarick K 11„„^

•ood. -d John U. Phuii;.. • ''"" '"'='••• ••

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Wovewber 24, 1914

Mr. John JonoB,
Jonas BroB*^

Livir^Jton, Montana,

Dear Sirs

Bbforring a^ain to your letber of Juna 24, ac-

knowledsed by me from LasuniUe, California, August 26,
I would say that I m now back in Washington ad shouH
be very glad to receive the two grizzly bear skulls of
wliich you spoke and any others that may have come into
your iuixids since you wrote. If you will kindly send
these by express, charges collect, addressed to II. S.
Mological Survey, Department of JEEriculture, Washington,
D. C, 1 shall be greatly obliged. Please attach a
tag to each skull stating the locality '.^iiore killed,
sex when known, approximate date, and your o^ name.

1b stated in my previous letter, I shall be
very glad to pay a good price for grizzly skulls.

¥ery truly your».

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Mr^'l. ¥• Bel

BOHs

Ma^ixx^ Chief, Bao logical Survey,
Waahirigtcn, D. C
9&arUr. IfelBonr

One or-fflore eiapnentB of bear skullB from

.Alaska to the Mological 'Sbnrey have failed to arrive.
One cf these was shipped in June by W. H. C&se of Juneau,
ittaika. Xim ttterripting to trace the shipnient, i have
been infonned that it is held up in the Custrome Office
at Seattle. It seams most extraordinary that a shipment
addressed to a branch of the Qoveminent service should
be held up by another branch of ^.he Grovem^ient and that
no notification of the same should be sent to the consignee.

Will you not stir things up at the Bevenue
Office in order to secure the shipment as early m possi-
ble and also to ascertain on what ^rcurKis the package
waa detained. .

Jhother shipment of bear skulls and skins waa
tfent from Knik, CSook Inlet, by 8P, W. Palmer on September
26 last* Whether or not this also is held up at Seattle
1 do not know»

'¥ery truly yours.

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Hovember 24, 1914^

Mr. Albert P. Morse,
Peabody Museum,

3klem, Massachusetts •
Hy dear Sirr

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Bfcferring again to your letter received and ac-
knowledged frcm my aumaer home at Lagunitaa, Gklifomia,
would say that I am now back in Washington for the winter
and Bhculd be very clad if you will kindly loan me the
Krizaly bear skull from Gklifomia to which you referred.
If you will kindly send it by expreee. charge, collect, '
addreseed to U. Si. Biological Survey, Department of
%riculture. WaBlungton, D. C. , I shall be greatly obliged
and will, of course, return the specimen when done with it.

Iferjp tjruly yuur»^

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Hbvombor 28, 1914*

Mr. Mrch E. Silbert,

Lc^nitas, Califcmia*

Itear A^'ch:

Your letiier of the 2l8t inat. enclv sing »ille tin

lac. 1, t»nuix-*iy- ciu*nr«<i 'ki'^s atrflcsplicric condiUons m
this nsiciiborhccd. The d&rk cl:.ud8 and threatcfting. atom
have cleared away and touay ia bright^, aunny bnd cheerful.
9at what a bold couple you were to venture up tJiere at
nl|j;htf

TourTeawurtt that you wers going to have Gt. K.
there for fcanksfriving leada us to infer that ha had not
departed for Wasliingtcn before ycur arrival and th&t.w#
need not expect hiifl fur a few days yet*

Tlxe key to our peat office box in in tlie mail
bag in the baaket tray on the eaelf close to the front
door.

We do not Wiurit cur L^eccnd clabs mail forwarded
unless you aaell sometiiiii^, of extraordinary interest in it.

We are certainly surprised to learn that Professor
and Mm. Wurta called ao lata as Kovembor 21. They muat
liave foiigctten that we intended to leave in October.

You are lucky in arriving ao late that the jigf?;erB

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were decidedly active .^ ,.^,, ,3,^ ^,^^,^^^^^^ ^^
corralled a ia^^ ^^^^ ,y cealiV^ th«ir holes with
Pi-cea of 3ur.ecn'a euih.aive planter, a r.ll of .hich
you will find in the medicine cubby in ^^e baU: .00..

T^uatirur th^t the ..ilk is flo^in^ you. w.,- b^
this tiime (even if the honey is knitted), and ./i th Icve
to y;,u bctla.

1b T^ver ycurs.

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Mr. ThoKae J. Carbray,
60 St. fSyrillo Street.,
Quebec, (bnada.

ly dear Sirr

Tcur letter or tli« llth inat. haa just

reached me, ha»ine been forwardsd frciii my eummor bans

at La^nitaa in Qalifomia.

Br. F. A. Lucas, Director of tlie ixazricaxk
■assign of Natural History, Trrites ms tlia-t tlis toctii TJas
fcmd to be that of a Killer Ihale and that the specimen
Ti&B returned to ycu. If it has not yet reached you please
notify Dr. Lucas.

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1 notice that your last Istter ie written on
paper headed Ucntreal instead of Quebec. I am, however,
sendinfi tliis to tlio address p;iv«fi in y''Ur foncer letters--
60 St. Cyri±le Street, Quetec.

Hcpinf?; that the tooth has reached you before
this,

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Mr. Fredorick K. Bumham,

Mertinez, Gal i fern i a.
My dear Sir:

. Forest and Streaa of today states that Mrs.
Bumham and yourself have recently returned from another
hunting trip in r.he North wi^k & aiamber of ;:riz7.H»«-
Ttiis arjiouncemant uLibcldens ioe to ask ycu if you will &^.ain
allow rae the privilege of studying t}ie skulls, particu-
larly these of adult grizzlies, of which I am anxious to
see as many as possible before my work gcos to press*

1 tras disappointed at not seein/': ycu in Cali-
fornia last sunmer. Wien calling on Mr. John Muir a few
weeks afro he told me that you were still in Alaska.

Tory truly your«^

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HoTember 2h, 1914,

Mr. BBmington Kellogg.
Lawireno^p^ Kansas.

Bsar Sir?

Your Iptter cf the 24th inst. is at hand. I

om much interested in ycur statement that there are a
numbor of bear skulls irv ynur collection. If any of
these are griszlies, particularly adult grizslies of
either saz» I should be might ^^^lad tc see them, during
past years I have several times written Professor L. L.
Bycha asking for the loan of bear material, biit i. believe
the Bpeciinens were not then in shape to ^t at.

Bo fore goinr: to press with ny work en the big
bears i am ry!cst arjcious to examine as ciary skulls as pos-
sible from all parts of Western Jnerica. 1 shculd be
greatly ctli£;«d, th^xsJoT^ 9 if the musexaa authorities
would be willinp. to loan me its big bear skulls, and will
promise to return tlis same in a short time, paying chanres
both wayB as a matter of course, lach okull should be
carefully wrapped, and a pad of folded newspaper shculd be
places betweon the jaws to prevent breaks^ of the teeth
^7 jarring in tr&ncit. 'Bie skulls should tlien be packed

in a box end shipped by express, charges collect, addrasfied

li. S* Bioloprical Survey, Department of iJKricu7turw,
las}iin/::tcn,^l>. 0. • . ,

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Dr. CharJas D. felcctt,

»ashin£ton, D. C
Osar Dr. falcctt:

blanks fi^r ycur letter cf t'-« ?«*v, •
agree vr^th vr„ . ^^ ^"«*- 1

"^ ru ae to y.e desirability of PubUc.*s
*«'-'r aa tne reaulte may be dm* i« .' . *.

Ing toretho^ .r -^ « F-^- m s..ape after the bring-

ng -ogejier of enougb material to .-ive H«^- ■.
In the caoe cf -,- m >, '' definite reeulta.

^n t.^ ear-;!::;" '^"^ "^^ ^^^^ --^-- arrive.

r.y 3^er. since ^hlch I have been at work on

the manuscript. The technical description, ^.f Zll

detsrranaticn nf i-h^ ^^w iJie

*"-^-*-v>n 01 the soecioA a^/^ *' ^«

n,o^- * " '^^^ approximate ra-rofi

niade it possible for the firs* m^ f

, „ . ^, "- ^''^ ^° arriin;;, und.r proper

h^c^a W vast ^atity of .ateri.l.^cuntir^. to eeve:^
thousand pa^^s, extracted frc« various pubicaticn,
especially early .crks on axploration in the West ^
-brth. rie labor of di,;a.ti^, and prepari.^ the .ore
-:portant parte of this catorial fcr public.:ticn in ap-
prcpriate chapters is the task on y^-^o^ !«..,„
Just hcT Icng It wll take I do not know.

?8ry truly ycur».

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Mr. W. I. Ad^iifiS

Smrthscrian Institution.

l>5ar lir. Maine: * /a. r^^

H..«wit» I ancicoe my «xi>ance accounts for 0ctobar($69.4X))

am November ($l66.90); Office r.nt for Dec««b.r ($K).'.-0)...nd

four vouchers fcr a. cirr-.n. cf Baars. uM shall be obliged

ir ycu will pay Bsi"". frc'i. 'h'i Hi-rrimaii Trust.

Th!? Bsar vcuchers are as fciicss:

G. f . Pulcer, Knik, Al.iski.
Lcuis Bell, S5v;crd, Alaska
Rob'jrt. Scr::^rcJlle, Gardinsr, liontana

John Euretr, Wihner, B.C.

Vrry truly ycurs

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(Oct Jo 20 '.'pi^f'W::unita8 tc Sar- TJ-y.^-, • w voucher
«aal8 cAio:i'.?^2^= a .90) ^'^' ^^^^CiBC,. Calif.

0«^i.20^1£cok8 en nh t ^ "'^*''"'^'"»<^<^ on above date.

Curtie BoVriuffiSr'.^li^"^^^'^" purchased at i ,

forma J^azin, S? ;2w« JS^^V P'? cJi- "j fsL

for-

•LU10& Book Cc tt^r. v**^

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, uitili Uio '^ ^^^"^'^ '^'^ raturn;fare l.io
Jara-.or. office. Apt. NotthumborJ^

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Round trip, Luf^iiiitraa.v^aiii .»'*- " ^»- j

Broakfaat on Dou ■
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Wfciia Parizo Express C^.D. Bear from C&rlo«ta,Calir.
CarnLirfnat.^DiBt.DsBert Plor.ts.ov V J: .Spaldir^ 4
K. A. Hayden, aervicoa aa stenograpnar 1 day
R.R. ffar&, Waahington to New York and rsturn
Seat on Pullman

Dinner - ^ tv -n

New York to lash in^; ton, Saat on PulLnan

Dinner . , 1 j

IS.W.Oc.odwin, services aa stenographer oj-days a

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Frocr T«r&x.riO; furniture pcliaa .SO
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2 SkinB an.l Skulls of i,oma.ure CJri.zli«« a $10.

1 Skull of 2 year old Gristly

2 Skina a.-.d SkulU Bl.ck BcaraCauain r)a $7.
1 Skull tuid Scalp Black B«ar

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Gordinsr. kcntana.

Nov. 3 Skulls of big old male Ke>&i Bears a $15.
1 Skull cf Blacic riisjT cub

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1 liala Orizsljr Bsar skull

2 Skulls cf Blaxik Bears, .^ale and fe„n;aie

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Wilmer, Britiah Columbia

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Docambor S, 1914.

Prufdsaor J. KdC. Cattollp

Cktrridon-on-fludscn, B. Y«

Daar Profe»«or Cattail:

Iteplying to your letterb of Novambbr 17 i&iid
Decoiiiber 1, w. uid so^ that I agraa with ycu in favoring lh«.
nomination of Dr. Or. Stanley Hall for metuL^irAhip In tho ABaddmy,
and ahall be glad to have you racord my vote accordingly.

Tary truly youra.

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Ihe beeuUT« Cbmnitted,

Boone ft CSrockett Club^

■aw Tork City.
Si rat

fbr 8c«9 ti«e past it h«« eaei^d to «.a that Mr-.

Lincoln lllar*orth of Row York »£« ,>«^ r .

iww xorjc teji ofw of tae yourvTer men «:o

ought to be conaiderad «, available «iaterial for u..«flb«r«iu,. i«
the Boone ft Crockett dub. Taie feeling me uaen groatljf
atrengt^rwd recently on learaing of tiie apendid work do«. by
Mr. Ill«.orth during Oie paet seaeon in Britiah Colunbia, ea-
pacially in the I>.we Lake x^gion. 1„ tiu^ region no iuia huntod
•i^eep. goaU and h^^ and haa preaented the Si^cimana U> the
II. S. Biological Survey, where tiiay will fciw a i>exr^i^nx. addi-
tion to our Mational collection.

On revamli.fi: fr^m ti;e Rortii, and «rithcu& g:uiiig
home, he has aet out for certain mountain rtui^oa in ei.uoiwra
California n»id ffevada in order to obtain laacb needed apec^mena
of Mountain ahaop for ihe Biological Survey. In ail of this work
ha haa nou only paid all of hia cwn exponaea, cut alao thcss cf
an aaaiataat. Such cyiufuendable seal in fielft vrork, c.upled *iA
audi appreciation of the acientific value of U-.e game aniiaala

aocured, would aeam tc entitle him to activs luoaibaraui j in the
Boona and Crockett Club. Aid it might be «id«d that per»onally
Hr. Bll«rorth ia a courteoua and sganial gentleman.

pbapectfully.

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Mr. Bbbart Sonierviile,

Qbrdiner, Konwuaa.

lteo.r Sirs

The l;ear ekulls you wen* Kind encur^i to send aie,

^,d .nuch arriv3d durinr "7 *^b8.3nce in California. ruucii«i hare
aafc^iy auid are new in t'^o Hational Uuwum. Ihroa da>B ago 1
exa..dndd tiisiu and pre^uri,<i 6. vouchor for 'uiwui amuunting to
$23. &0 ($16 for Uisi fjnaaiy akull. $3 each for the two l lacks,
and 50 cents each for tha t,hr&tt coyotea). The ccyoU okalia
•*8rs iiai^orfdct, osinfisi.liiT brtkan or liaving troken Usth.
A ciieck for i-aa aa-cunt should raaca you in a fea daya.

Should ycu 8uc«;e.»d in cbtuininf; f^V other skalia
of jiriaziy Uiarb I aLv^uid be glad tc ^urcmistj ilin same, and for
i&rttw. iuit. adult iwilea will P&y <» highar iiri« than that, al-
lowed for tiiia eicuH. ohich i« not fully adult.

Terj uuiy yours.

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Mr. John' Heia-^t,

¥i liner, fcrlUah Ctelurabia*
l>iar Sir:

Tery cwiy tbankA for uhe two grizzly aiulla wLxca
you ^ore kiiuL enough to ©Siid and v^hioh ij"riv3d uoriiif, luy i^b*
ftui^d in Cullfcrnla. I h&va turntid in a voucbsr for thees
Akuila, allowing $15 fcr tiid liauit gris&Iy ajTad $5 for chd
young ^i2;&l^, aiaounting tc $20 in all. 1 check for thia
ainour.t will be sent you fr^:!ai Uhe Snithfionian Inatitution in
a fdw daya.

Shi.uld you obUur4 &i:y additional aicuila of gris*
sliaa I ar>a] 1 bs glad to purchaao thd 8ua»«

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Mr. Louift Bbli,

DdAT Sirr

Ifeturnlfls to fi«.i.in«tcn from Culifomia about the

nuddia of Novau^tar I fo'ond your Islter. datad Octcter 16, and
aUo iaa tlu-.a big bear skulle and 'Jw clack bear cub froa
Kenai Peninaula. Ill of tlxem are good specinten* aJid reached
u. iA good coiiditicn, for vailcli I aia veri' rtach obliged. I
have made cut a y-uchcr for '..litfiu, allowinc the full price of
tl5 each for tl;a Vurse big ckulU. and $2 for ti.e ct*, oaking
$47 in all. <i dieck for tbie ^u ant should r=s6ch y^u »bcu&
tha aaf.10 tiiie' that thie letter doe«.

aiould ycu obtain additional skulla of big bear*

1 should be glad to ^uruajteo Uiou.

in answer to ycur qiastion, w^uld state Uiat '-hdse
bears are wiaoiy different from *ny of the griaalies inhabiting
the Hciitod StaWe. Tae Stikine and Cassiar country in aritish
Colu-nbia is ths rurthast north roac'ned by any of Uw Bocky
Bcuritain species inhalii tinf, Montana or Idulio.

Teri'- truly yours.

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fccretary ^itional Jsscciati
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•aticn cf ibdubcnSccietiss
'ay,

lev Tcrk City.
Dsar Mr. Pe&rscn:

li^ for ycur isttcr o f Ic va'.il , »• o, - ,
*iv« _ » . "^»o<jctr w7 ana fr,r

J- cow of la«to, Krt lift *,eh yea ^.. h-^

aiu.lra-.ior.. are ainin*!,, andit, i, .,„.. .,. .

tl» .i«ciU urticl,. ^./ V '^"•^ " ■''"•

^1 ./ ..*. t..«r n«,. „„ «1 tt=o fro. iae u tl= p.^..

Tery truly y^-^r^^

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Denvar, Coloradc.

By deur Sir: ^, .

Ycur letter cf Mcv«nb«r 21 r«ia;h*d uie ^ c.x

,. . ^— r- i-ca California, ^hsre I have Ucn aince
d*y» after my rsw:*x^ **t»* w«^x-.* t

labt July. J I ^«-

I haira jUst csan ^ **^« n»vxv.ti~^

P,^«. your ,alu..U .kuH in =..» ^-.-i. =f " """'-^ "^^ ""
p«,ie ^a .Id, i'. '.<= your ^ur»s -.od^y. t, «pr.... oh^ge.

prepaid* i. • «

TUo akuU ia aacli a valuable one that x« la *

♦ ,<f - fira orocf building. It corUinly
pity to iA»e it ««» <^-^ *^^ * *^" ^

ahouia be pcnr^nontly preserved in one of our great muacu...
.aore it ^y be ^ce.ai.l. to future .tuiont. of Bortii An.r.c-.
„„aaBala. Ycu will Forl-.p. appreciate it. value loore lu^iy
^han I tell you tuut it ia tl.e be^t of tl.e three known ad'.lt
u,Ue BkulU of t..c ^r«at Cclorade grizzly, Or.ua baii^i. It
is of ac much ^pcrt...ce to «.ience tiat I .ould gluily pay
$100 for it, in onier to pr^Bcnt it u> ti^e Baticnal llua.«. if

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^^Muikir^ you for tlic loa« rf -..*
**« of .3cii afc6i«tan«« f *«Peci«8n, --fcich

"^^ *«>"a-ance to me ano «h,ci I i^^vc had phc to«ra-J.ed
from several ^jointa of »ier. P^^-ogra^ed

Ter;' truly yours.

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BBceiiibsr Z, 1914,

■r. Ball Defeeee, -

Cancn Civ/» Ccloradc

Yox»r letter of wovoflLar •/ »•»■ *»
.„ .till ai ^ .1-. ^o Caircmi.. U i. fiocd U b.^ iro«
you ^«n ^.i I « «r.-.iri=.i to inc. ^t ycur joint. .«

', ., ^ •hitB *til luck froB •outmrx
hunt. 1 ccr4;ra--ula--e you on your llu .e IWll ».

Cclcn.do. It i» plowing to ^c* -a^- y-u ana

gaiae unimal. for /ubr Stata Mu.eua.

ft.«aii Dinc«a:.r« ara a ii^'-io cut of «y im. and
I don't kno. or any popular rork on tue .uo.iect. .K^or. i.,
hc«.ter. . apl^mid ixck ,ubli.l.ed la.t year oy Tha lamxlli
a«ip-ny of Waw Tork, entitled f Ii.V>ry of land ILumul. an

o • • ^r«» fav W •. fcott. If th3 'oojiea you *ir«
finding ar. ^.^sa oX reptiloa u.nd r.w'- u.*-:^^!*. 1 wcuLl eug-
^.a- Li-t y.u ..Tite oithar U Pro fe»«r John C. Merrx-u,
muv«r..., cl CuUforni.. Berkley. Clif.rr.ia. or Pruf«.aor
S. 1. fiiii.t.a. Unxvar.x.y of C^icaGP. both of .ac *« .oinsnt
witiiLritisa in paleontology.

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Dear fir: -,,

On rct«minE t* lMhine;ton I f und that a -kuU

Biupped from Juna«u h-d baaa recai/id at the Biolosical «ur»ay.

but it *U8 not a^k«i a. coaintr frciu ycu wd iu-l no tag on it
at all. it is a fairly lar« ekuU, but i» net »;ito -dult
und tha back i^irt of tke to*; Ua» baea broken off. I aawno '
that thi« i« Ui3 aicull mdntionod in your iet^ter of SaptsKber
12. I will credit your account with $12 for it. but will not
•ani in tha fouciior at once ae wa aro hopinc tc receive from
tli9 Seattle Cuetcm. Office the batcii of akulU which you -eni
on Jane 19. Ihon they come I will ada t,u» to the tcucliara
r. r tue otiwre und &'.& i^- a cfasck for U» awourit ia aen*- you

Plea«d do not eand any mora ekulla without 'Saga*
1 iiava sent you wigB for tiiiifi i>ar^80 bafurs.

Tdry traiy ycurft.

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Mr^ B. S. Sice,

Ibreat Sonrica,

Tblifia, laahiiTprton.
Smlt Sirz

Tour letter of Hoveitber 2- ia before me and in-
tereata me £:;ro*4tly. 1 «■ more tii*n delir^.tad to know that ycu
hawe tiia akull of a griaaiy oear killed in Chalar Cbunty and
1 aball be greatly obliged if you will ser«i it by eipraaa,
ctaar^a collect. (uMreesed D. S, Biological Surway, Dt»partment
of %riculturo, laaiungvm, D. Q. If it i» n (ririzily in fair c
ditioD as I aoppoae, I will agrwe to pay you at leaat $25 for

it.

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IT you know ^hara you ccuia obwin any cUior
#kulU of sriiiUaa frca any localitiaa 1 ahculd ba rladl to
purchaaa Uys wai\e at good ^ricaa. 1 an particuiariy anxicua to
get aioilla froa Oracon and Waahingtcn, but would ba gltd of
othara frca any pointa in Idaho, ]k>ntana, fyoming, or Iritiah
CoiXflDbia. lach akull ahruld ba labaiad with the locality wli^ra
killed, a|ipraziia&te date, aoi your own n««ie.
? .;.. ,. . Very truly y^ura.

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Mr. JLrthur H. Btumoii/

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Portflfciouth, Ohic.

Bbar Sirr

Many thuaka Icr ycur loiter of lowuiiii^r 50, taid

aisc for your ccurtoiiy in aandin^ tae the sioiil which Too
Jeffreya gs.M9 you for Sheldcii Snd wliich protea to be of audx
interest. la» this one ulau froai itulh ftrk 6f Maooillan?

I api^raciate your ccurtaay in cfferiiur to alloy Ad
the prifiicisa of exchwiging an artiliCiAi hand for the airtill '
in ycur rtg an order trat 7;tJ may add the ra&l Muii to U»
JTa-^onal collacticn, We have here an excaiianv taxidenaist,
who lu*£ dene tliia s«&.e job for me on a ntabor of bear rugi
loaned for thia pLrpcae. In 3vcry caae the head haa looked
better after He haa finiaiidd siUa It tlian iten it cuue in.
If tiara aiiculd b© any dai^^er of the hair aiipping on Ua head
we would not; aoak it at all. In acoia caaea we are abld to r»-
mcve tl-e akull jrj.ta.-Vjt wettiins zm' akin; in o'tbor caaea w© n»i«
ten the head witii a'icuLol. In any evunt I «iil agree ncC'to
take tiie akull cut if Uior3 ia the laaat dangar of injuring
the head* I ahail ba greatly obliged xf yvu will kindly send
tire si^eciuidn by expraso, chargea collect, addreaMd V. 9.
■iological Survey, Dopartiutjnt of Agriculture, Waahington , Ifc. §L

1 do not care for tlis cub akullfl*

fill you kindly lot oe knar tli^i daie and locality

of your laifcill«, oear, «Ki alao tne approximate locality of
the Toa Jeffr^ja akuU.

»>« akull Sheldon brougl.t froa Ma«,allan river ia
the only adult „ale I have ever aeen fro„ that region. It ia
«».t gratifying, therefore, tc be ^u to examine ih.ae two
«daiticnai ekulla before «y book «oea to ^a^

^bankiiig you for your uourteay ia tlae matter.

fery iruly youra.

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9. W. PSaliiier, Esq.,

Knik.

Cook Inisb, MUBVk. • - - • — "^

Doa** Sir:

Thu 8i:ipi«nt of tetr ak'olls and skins laenticned

in ycur iaUar of Septeai«r 25 fimaiy u:-ritr9d. for which I
obliged. The skull* I m, vary glad to have, aithuugh most of
tism an, iiaaatara; but tiw skins are net cf much account,
being in sufjuer pela^ and in laost cas^a lacking "-he cl«r»,
80 that they are net fit for muwuia specimens. Hovevar, I m
allowing ycu iib-Tal pricus for thja as fellow*:

Skin aoa sjcuxI of bdult feuaie gri»»ly---$*0.00

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Tyro skulls with imperfact skins cf nn nn

jccng gri&xiios --^ ••* ai.«ju

One skuii of Uiraa ydiur old gristly 6*00

Urc skins and skulls of blacn betur ^

*t $7 — - — i^OO

One ttkall wmk scalp of blikck Lear •---••• 4.00

Ona akin dioi skull of cull -----•-----•—- 4#00

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Jlvcuuher lur Uiis oiatunt I l^v:^ j.*rd^mr;:d U)d i^;
previa ttrxi & chacK ahculd be sent you in a fea oays, jxinsi'^y
by the Q^dOQ ijull which carries this 1 attar.

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SBCMSibsr 3, 1914.

lir. ©ilbert H. Sroavenor,

Director, Satiiortal (Seograiihic S/cis-ty,
Wafliiiiigtcin, D. C. . ■
Itear Mr* Cfrcsvenor:

it adoios that George Mixtar. of #& BcjJOu^r Sirddt,
Boston, «iio oiAco vrrowu an articld en tLa Big Bsara of £Laaka
Peraneula fcr t»l3 030gra|:luc Ua^u^ias, i& net a aaiobor gf ube
Stele ty. I take pldisbdure, taereforo, in nominatir^, liim. He
is a Fbllo^ of tiie Britiaii IR^yal G6og;ra^ic Society.

Terj' truly your»^

ltect2K.ber 2, 1^14.

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#5 fcinwjft Street,

lostcn, lUaa.
r Mr. Mixter:

Tno receipt of your letter shortly after my re-
turn from Cg^ifcrrda was a double eurprisf,. i had BunK)8ed th
ycu 'jfdrd a meriber of our fscciaty and V>^t you wsre living at
Key Vest.

It has given .-se nucii pleacure to pres^^ia ycur
name for ffissibership in tlia NaticrAl Geographic Society, fran
which you Trill doubtlesa hear direct in the near ftiture.

We suall te very glad tc see ycu here whenever
ycu are in this part of the ^orld. Our collection of bear
skuUa haa grovm neaaurabiy since ycu eav it laat/snd much new
lig^t has been toro^m on the relatic:TB of the various bpscies.

With kindest regards tc your fa^iier, mother urii
brcthsr,

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tix'. Oiibtirt H GrroBvenor

National Grou^ru^hic Society
Watiiiin- t>cn, L\C,

ily atjar Wr;- Grcvonor:

Ver^ rjittnv iAjxtikf^ for tiie CL;i;y of Alaskan Glacier Stuuioa by
Tcurr ixi\d Lartih, TViiioh you- -iflfere kind 3aout;li to aund ide 7/ith
tJio coiripiiji.&>iU of the Society.. Oddly bi.ough. it caiud on '

ray bi rttiday.

Unfortunately I faar tliere ie no Fuortes in Botany.:-
mion I waa young Sprag^aa v/as t^ne great pkint.r of flowers,
and lator on i^^ buccaaded by Wallpole , but boi^ ^3 now dt^ad.

During tne puat-few y^are I ^n^vo aeen soma beautiful
pai.v.inga of flo^'ers by ^oia^^n artis^.g but just now I cannot
recall tiieir naiaes: probaoly Covillo vculd Know.. I ^iU naka
.a^uir^b aiid if I ioarn of -uiiy 0110 will lot you k;:ow.

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cv.iA >,. iju^/^tt. Director

^^ n-LS-cry, Scisnce and Art
Lob Aiigeiofl, G&iifornia.

Wixen viaicir^ your ^iuaeuu, a iitue .uore rV
u€C you aho*ed ,.o u -cuol. rf r • * ^'*^

l-urB, pr.au.uu.ly from Calif crnaa. I wc^dur .f .. i-

^.pp,a oy ..pre.., ch^.-g,, ccU.oc. ^.ro...a ,.S. Biological
S...-v.y. ft..«rt«.e„t of iyicuitur., .a,«ung-^„, D.a.. R^h
a*.il suci. b. »r.,ped separably, ,,th , ^^ „, ,^^,^^ ^^^^,
W„r ..Waen ih. J«a .0 prevent Creole^, of U-.e teoti .n .r^.it

-^ t-rjuv, a.*rQ to iir.iei: r.y monograph of the

Ciig baara and act n-cflh «»ivi/ii= +, • •

a., zucot a,ixi.u8 to see ae xf^any skulle a« ^osBibie

of adult CJrii.iiioa.

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Dr. Charles D. Walcott

Secretary Smi thaonian Institution

Doar Doctor Wi.icott.:

K^rewitii I au. eaoiosiiig n.y ch^ck for $bOO. in repayment of
a/uount advaiicett zo iua from the Harrii,'uui TruBL Fund for fiBld
expenses about -he end of Juno iaat, for ta. use of which I am

great ly otiigad.

Vary truly yours ^

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Prof J.G.CoHklin,

Princeton, N. j.
Dear Professor Conklin:

In oo.pli.ne. rtth j^ »^,t i .u^it h.«.iu, „

preference .

Yery truly yours,

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Forbes, S. A.
Hovani, L. 0.
Jorian, D. S.
Itorriam, J. c.
Nelson, E. f.

Nutting. C. C,
Preble, E. A.
Ridgewajr, R.
Stejraeger, L.
Chapnan , F. k.

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Dear Arch:

December 15, 1914

The date of the enclosed check (December 2)

in repayment of the money you expended for our laundry
will serve to ehcm my good intention in the way of
writing, for I expected to send you a letter the same
day. Pressure of various matters however has delayed
me until now.

Thanks for the temperature data in your second
bulletim

About the garage locks: You apoke of an eltra
lock which you found on my desk, implyii^ thafc you had
still another. This may be the case as I left an order
to have the main front door lock sent to you in case it
was ever sent at all. I did not eopect you to put it on.
lit the lock which I left on the desk and which was in-
tended for the back garage door I thoi«ht you ai^ be
able to place provided you«re able to find the bits
so that you can bore the necessary hola. The bits are

Wapped in Canton flannel in the botto. 4rawar of the
little cata In my office roan, the key of whiol> danglea

at th# M»l of a chain fran a hook in ||» in.id, ^f th.

cloaet juat at the ri^t of the dcoiray as you enter.

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tima to tima you may find usofula

TBEt wife of yourcmuat hara succeeded in
manufacturing successive batcdies of remarkaUy taraptir^
bait in order to have kept your paternal ancestor on
the coast until this late date. Wa should have written
him some time ago but sxipposed tlatt he was either in
Michigan or on his way here.

Tou astonirfied ne by saying that you h»T«
been watering the ferns* I thou^^t the good God had
undertaken thAt job for the balance of the season so
that you could leave the hose for a rest until cur ar-
rival next spring.

It is comforting to know that you ca*e burning
up the old wood piles. If you wander over the place «
particularly down the slope and to*ard Bolinas ridge,
you are liable to find a number of piles which may have
escaped your attentioiu Tou have doubtless discover*
ed four or five places where liartinelli and I had fires
during the last wet spell before we laft« I am anxious
to bum up all the dead stuff and moat of the bnuh
while the ralna last and with this in view agreed to
raplqy Ifartinelli long enoi:^ to run up a bill of $50%

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before mj return* The bnish between the two roade
beyond the railroad spring and below Spreeklee* eoold
be burned safely on the lower road it care is taken not
to make a big enou^ fire to sipge the liriog branches
orerhead*

We congratulate you on having so tinted your
arrlvflj as to escape the jiggers* They were in full
swine when we left on Horember 8.

Toiu: hard luck with the •ftnporium" is surpris-
ing as we always had the best of success with them* We
foiind Goldbergt Bowen and Oornpany both disappointii^
and ej^ansive*

While you have the advantaf;e of m in havix^
pushed a 165 pound wheelbarrow up the hill^ I have had
enough amisement of this general sort in packir^ two
suit-cases of hardware up the same road* This kial of
exercise is all rl^^t for boys but your father and I
had our shari long ago.

Vhan you stand on tha ri^ hand front eomar
0^ V"« f l§«2A with your back to tha houaa you my notlca
• HW» *nd axcaptionally tall taribait below tha
and bdtwaan it and a ctos^ of radwooda. This tai&axi
intorfaras with tha proper ejQMuiaion of the redwoods

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and therefore would make a proper adornment for tha
Interior of the fireplace.

After ten days of rain we are having our
first real cold snap. This morning the thermometer
registered 1^, wbidti I take it is about a dozen de-
crees lower than the lowest you are likely to see at
lagunitas. <

It is gratifying to hear frcm you ftraquently
•Ten of there is no particular news.

With lore to all.

As eve

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P.S. Since writing the above, your 3U1 let in 4, dated
the 10th, has arrived* The rain you taJLk about
has now stopped, as I see from the weather maps* We
had about tan days of it here*

Sorry to >»ar thft we have a bad tmn at laguni-
tas* Hope ttiey will catch Mm* I have a suspision that

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I know who h« i»,twt unfortunately our law are so

lax that a fallow is not peraitted to shoot such
chaps-ftt least not in the presence of witnesses un-
less he has the Court's kind of evidnece.

Sorry also to hear about tht laaks^but
tba#i ar« lass sarious. If you taka off your shoes,
put a laddtr up bebini tha housi^ and climb ugp on ths
roof with a piacs of tin in yoiir hand you can cnra
tha laak by driring tha tin in undar tha split s'
which causes tha trouble* If you examine the chimney
closely^ probably you will see where the water finds
its way between the bricks and the Bhinf^wm.

By all means pitch into Johnny about that
milk* It doesnH pay to pay for milk and get water*

it lundi Vbm. IL r«aarked that 0* K. would
likely drop in before nighty or at least by tomorrow |
so when your letter came ri^^t after lunch I let her
read the paragraph atatiqg that he is still at Laguni«
tas« Probably the rains kept him indoors so mudi
that he was not able to take the necessary etercise*

December 15, 1914

Dear Rcmdyn:

Thanks for yours of tha 10th insl. with
the Christmas cards. They are very attractive and I
am not Surprised that you are havii^ success with
them* a

As to our last auto trip to Oalifomia:
We had good ludc from here to Nevada, reachix^ Salt
Lake on tha seventeenth day from Washington, and would
have reached San Francisco on the twenty*third day but
for an accident • the breaking of our left rear axle*
The roads across He vada are unutterably bad and with
every storm are converted into mod lakes* The alkali
flats are especially bad and tha thousands of arroyos
whidi one has to cross hit the wheels so hard that the
^ axles are likely to becorao crystallised and break* I
saw stacks of broken axles from various cars at Qgden,
and again in California* However as it was we got
through in just thirty days*

Nevada has no state roads and extremely few
county roads, the result being that rarohers are con-
stmtly fencing in existing roadways and forcing travelers
to fini new passages outside of tha wire fences* Ttm

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liHcdn Hlghiray Association has ♦ppoaled to ine uoreraor
and tha Legislaburo to establish some pennanent ri^it
of way so that at least one road across the stata magr
be put In fair condition.

Apart from the trouble in NeTsda we had a most
Interesting trip, and secured as before maBy isagortaiA
records bearii«*on the getgraphic distribatico of mamaali

birds and plants.

Tou will be interested in a little job I did
just before leaving taj place at Lagunitas, ^idi is in
th« inner edge tt the redwood belt, about twenty miles
north of San Francisco. I made some sections of soon
of the ooBBon troM «Qi counted their ringn* On mf
place there is a aaall thicket of haael fnorylue cali»
fam±(satk)j containing seme Tery large indiyiduale
measuring 3i to H inches in diameter* These ted 22
or 23 rings*

Specimens of the coffee berrj fHhAwrnia q^J^
fomicMai 5 to 6 inches in diazoeter and 25 to 26 feet
in hei^t had from 24 to 33 rings* These of ecurse
are exceptionally lazigi trees for the species*

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is a coast lilac (Oeayiothngr thyraiflnnin) , the fUll-

groTO trunks of which measured from 10 to 14 inches
in diameter* The hlggest one of all (14 Inches in
diameter and 42 feet 6 inches in hei^t) had only 27
rings t while a small one growling nearby and measurii^
only 4 3-4 inches in diameter had 24 rings - these beii«
exceedlflgHy close together, of cours^ while the others
wore exceptionally broad*

There are also other species which attain un«
uibal dimenpions on my place, notably l^rica California
Sij^ , of which several individuals measure from ten inches
to a foot in diameter*

Ihen you c(»iie to California next year to see
the big shoir we shall expect to see you at our place
wtere we can show you a lot of trees in ibich you will
find much of interest*

With best wishes.

Tery truly yours^

Br. Romeyn B. Hough,
Lowvillet^ ^
New York.

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Standard Book CompanT.
98 Park Placa,

New York City.

Dear Sirs:

Thanks for your innual Holiday Sal« (]hit»-
lo^u©, number 87, Of Doubleday, Page k Compare* ■
"New Nature Library* I should like to purchase at
$1.55 each: "Aasrican Animal** "The Frog Book,"
"The Reptile Book," and "The Tree Book." amountli^
to $6.20. Also from the same catalogue "Captain
Oartwright aiii his Labrador Journal" at 75c and
Buckle's "History of Olrilization" at $1.00.

Please send*^ Tree Bo^" aai Oartwright's
"Labrador Journal" to mo at the abore address - 1919
Sixteenth Street", Washington, D. C. Please send all
of the others addressed to me at Jtnguaatas , llarin
County, Califoniia. They will hare to go by parcel
post as there is no express office at Lagunitas.
Hease send them therefore by parcel post Insured
and I shall be gl«i to remit the additional cosrof
transportation orer the cost by ordinary frei^.

v«.i. *v "*!i'^*^ ^ enclose check for $7.95 for ths
books themselres amd shall be obH«-Mi ir ^^ i-,-.
me receipted blllfor iame. ^^^^^ ^^ 7^^ wHl •and

Tary truly yours.

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Deceniber 16, 1914

Joba Jonas, Esq.,

Jonas Brothers, Taxideraists,
LiTingston, Hont.

Dear Sir:

7ery many thanks for sending me the skull
Of the Gr laxly Bear killed by John Pfohl. This
abill, Althou^ badly damaged behind, is of noeh
interest and I am allowing you ten dollars for it.
A check f<r this amount will be sent you about ths
f irtt of January by the Smithsonian Institution.

I shall be glad to reeeire as jmny Grizzly
sbills as you are able to secure in the spring.

Tary truly yours ^

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Daoambar 16 « 1914

lfr« Herbert W« Grlaasont
83 Plnknoy Strdat^
BosLont Uass*

Vj dear Ifr. Gleason:

So ycu hav« added Alaska to
your sdrles of beautiful and intereating photo«»
graphs • I coqgratulate you on havins sone so far
vest and on hayipg risited so many points out of the
lines of ordinary trarel.

' Ifaf ortunately I have no photograph of Ut.
St. niaSt eince it was alsays hidden by fcg when I
was in its imnediate Ticinity. I saw it at loi^
range once, but too far off for a picture* With the
Fkirtreather raiTge I had better luck, althou^ at
some distance oat at sea* A reproduction of Bay
best photograjii you will find facing pi«e 266 of
the Harriman Alaska fiqpedition^ ToXume two. Bogoslof
I photographed in 1891 and again in 1899- Ify best
picture is a panorama made up from two rngat ires and
is published in volume two of the Harriman Alaska ftc*
pedition, facing page 291* Another volcano in which
you may be interested is Pavlof, my photograph of

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«• or th. two corriblned in tha BQro.l«r

Yes^ IfriB, Merrlam and I T-r.-r^^ xi. -.
tlon building, in San Franc"! w '* •^°•'•

last .onth. We .,„ il^" " "* "^^

«.r>,4f \ iD»Ben.ely pleased with the Ifoorl

2! "^ *'• '^''"*- ^'''^^^ Of th. build.

With kind regards to Mrs. Gieasoo.

Very truly yours^

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Doeamber 15« 1914

George H* Northrupt Bsq«t
not SpriiKSt
nallf.

Dear Sir:

Thanks for your letter of Noveufcer 30,
In the letter i^ich failed to readi you
I asked if you could obtain a few specimens of ths
Big Wolf during the coming tMason; also if you could
seoare the skulls of those proviously trapped by you.

Have you the skull of the Griazly Bear
^ose skin you say is worn ou^l^ where was it killed?

You say there are still a few wild Grizzlies
left in California. Where do you think they are? If
you can get one I will be glad to pay a liberal price
for its skin and skull. '

I ma always glad to purchase skulls of IblTes,
Bears, Wolrerines, Fisher, and Canada Lynx, provided
eadi one is labelled with the proper locality where it
was killed and, if known, the sex and approximate date.
In the case of wolves I should be glad to get both skins
and skulls. ^e number <m the sloai tag should

always be the same as that on the tag attached to the
skin to which the skull belongs, so tlvt we my always
be sure whi<A skull earns out of whidi skin. Skins
should be perfect, so that thay will asUce good musevn
specimens, with the class, lips and ears atta<*ed.

Herewith I am sending you a circular of direc<
tions for the preparation of museum specimens of this
kind, and also a few t«si. I should be glad to know
what you consider a fair price for skins prepared in
aocordancs with these directions. For skulls rou^y
cleaned I would $ij 75c each for ten Mountain Coyotes;
50c each for ten Tallay Coyotes; $3 to $6 each for
Timber Wolves; $1 to $3 eadi for Black Bears; $10 to
$50 each for Grizzly Bears killed within the state of
California, accompanied by proper data.

Tery truly yours.

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Dtaiversity of «%»«■.
Lagvrance, Kawias.

Itf daar Ur. Kalloeg:

This is only & llns to admowl-

edg9 the receipt of the bear skoUe which your Maseum
ime kind enougji to loan me. I wiU endeavor to return
them before Tebruary "d will write you a litUa later
about the Badger, but wiU remart inoidentaUy that
80 far a« I am aware the Badger is not knora to inhabit
the Hudson Bay region. The plains of the Saskatchewan
■eem to be the region nearest to 4k» Hudson B^ in
which it is known to occur. I will find out in a
few days whethdr wa hare specimam froa that region.
If 80 we simll bo only too plad to loan you the skin

and skull you wish to sea.

Just at presMt the Biological Sirray is in

diaos, baii« in transit from its old ({lartert to a
new fire-proof building in the raar of the grounds of
the Agricultural Department. I will write you a little

later.

Tery truly yours.

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Lakftview,

Oregon*

Ify dear Sir:

In a Bomewhat roundabout way, throy^
ttre* Ida S. Fletcher and Mrs* Marcus Baker, I have
just learned that you long ago acquired the habit of
killir^ bears and that yon have a number of specimens
from Oregon and perhaps other parts of the Northwest*

For more than tw%nty 3^ars I have been engaged
In a study of our American hears and just now am trying

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to conqplete for publication a work on the Grrizzlies
and big Brown Bears t of which animals I have been able
to bring together in our National liiseon more than
five hundred skulls* Skulls from Oregon and Washington
however are particularly difficult to obtain* This is
my excuse for writing you* If you have aiiy skulls of
Griszlids from Oregon, Waahii^on, or other parts of
the West or Northwest t I am most anxious to see them
and should be greatly Indebted if you will either
loan or sell them to me*

If you are willing to do this, please send
them by express, chaxiges collect, and addressed to

ff. S. Biological Surrey. D,pt. igricultura. Wa«hir«.
ton. D. 0. . puttlpg your own name in the tipper left
hand comer. Plewe attaA a teg to eaA skm stat-
ing where the bear wa. killed, and add your oro name.

A pad of folded p^er should be placed between
the jam to preyent the teeth from crackii« in transit.

Tery truly youra.

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Deeambar 21 « 1914

Dacanfcdr 21. 1914

Daar Colonel Kueer: ^

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Of course ,1 shall be Tery glad
to haTe you republidi my *Alken Bird List* In connec*
tion with your osn for ccuparatiTa purposes.

•The Oriole* of which you speak has not jrot
arrired*

Vary truly yours.

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*• Alfl^uxier Treatt.
Wrangell,
* ilaska.

Dear Sir:

Tour letter ww a gwat dleappointment to i
•• I had countod OT your gattl,« eoms Orl«,ly skull..
Howerei; I am glad to knoir that you .xp^ to hare bai
luck in the sprlns. Ib«i*ne Aould y«i learn of ai
^^ who has one or more gristly stallg on hand J ehall b«
obliged if you will purj^ase them*f?r a» Md I will x
mit the anouot*

Tjry truly youm.

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John Drvdm Kuser.
Idlfcor *Tha Oriole" .
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Ore

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Dear Ifir. Carper :

Tour letter of NoTeoiber 16 came duly*
I am Tery eorrf to learn that you have been eufferJi^
frcm rheutaatin and hope yoaare orer it nov« Was
disappointed also to learn thai the old Grisaly skulls
could not be founds as I am mdst anxious to see them*

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I am willing to pay from $25 to $50 sqpiace.aecordii^
to condition, for Bkulls of adult mala Oriizlies frcn
Qregont Waahington or Idaho.

Trusting that you may still be able to secure
one or mQre« I am

Tery tnaly yours^

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89 Sudbunr Street .
Boston t liass*

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Dear Sirs:

Haase sand ms anotbs#^4uBiqf gcizzlj
tear iknll vith month apvu I ai not aura irtiathar
it ahoold l)a tha midila or SMllMt aisa; tha dia-
tMoa from aar to naaa is tvalra inohas, aya to not
fiTa inchas, laraadth of mossla tluraa aid ona-half

Indtas.

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bill to 1919 Siztaanth Straat*

' Raspactfully,

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ttr* Thomas Vbrphf.
Blocksbuz^^

Himboldt Oo*t
Cal if omia.

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Tha skulla shlppad by yoi^ fbout tb* end of
|I«TaBi>3r_|i*T» lurrlTed, I wUIr p»y y*u for thaa u
follora: 1 Qrisily^sknll from Qtlifolmla, without
lovar jav, $25; 2 Maok B««r slaais at $2 each, $4;
3 broken Blaok Bear aktaia at $1 eadh, $3; I Coyota
.78.* la lai $32.75. A chack fpr thia amount will be

nithflonian Inftitutioa about the first

January^

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THa^Baar skull is Ubalad •Dobbins Caiyoi
Is this ths Dobbins Croak in TWm County 0!^tyli« i
Ittddlo Pork Yuba River from ths north? And do you
raoanibar sbout hm many years ago the Bear was kill

▼«ry truly yours^

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Decaiabar 21, 1914

T«alpala PubliahiiK Co. .
506 Pkcifio BSfldlM^

San Franciaco, fialif.

Dear Sin: ' •"' "^ •

Ab a member of the Tamalpait Cfcaermtion
fOxbl receiTe the magaaine «b ny wJBBer hone at
I-^Sunltaa. I ^ah hovevar to obtain a A^Ucata aet
f or uaa at ny winter hOBM Iwi-e in #aAii«ton. fti-
oloaed ia ny cbeck for $2.00 for wMdh kindly aemT
me a Mpl^ta aet of 'the ntnibara already iaauad and
enter t^ aubacriptkoii at the aboTe addraaa for future
nutabera a« iaauad* '

when the aubacriptlon expirea I will be glad
to raoit f or ftrture nunbera aa I ad aaxioua to hare'twi
ttoaplete aett of the oaKasina. one at nAATt And f^t *\^
line*

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Urn. (jilbdrt H. LiTlngrbow ,
Hatley*

New Jersey*

Kjr dear Mrs. Lirlngstone:

Sons time ago when I was still

in California your brother^ Dr. IkiTid JE« fheelert asked

me to send you soooe msnasoript lie sent me during the

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STimert lAiioh I hare only rtoenily been able to read

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and hare found most j^nte>re8tlqg«

The plants he sent hare been identified by
Ibr* f. V« CovillSt who was particularly glad to see
theow Ifr* Corille ie our head Gknremaant botanist

and is in charge of the !tational Herbarium*

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Owix^ to the uneipected . lat^ss of my re«
turn from Oalif omia I am in doubt a^ to whether

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your brother has returned to Buffalo^ or whether I
should send the mEjiuscript to yocu If you will kind-
ly let me know I will attend to the matter at onoe«

▼ery truly yourst

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?»arly a month age ! reeeired a
yf^. ^^. ttm you pUfelqs ■Herarltli ll«i»tol(«f II. •
i^ology has not yet shown im^

With best wishes and greetings of the season.

* ▼•IT truly yours.

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lULla Church,

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Mr. Stanley g._Jewett, . _,_
fish ani Qame Qoniaissiont

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Dear Mr. Jtwett:

Can you send m two ccpias of •The

Qrogoo Sportanan" for tooaat^md ort« copy awh for
October aod ISotmborS If so, I aball ba ©raatly
obligadU

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Ift ordar to ke^ ona fila of "Tha Qragon
Dportanan* intact, and to cut another sat to place tha
matter mxler the proper qpaciia in my manmal filea I
need two oqpiaa. I ahovdd appreciate thi f»Tor there-
fore if you could aend me two cqpie» of each isna as
published and will be only too filad to remit tha neces-
sary amount if 1 may be allowed to pay for the aama.

Tory truly your«#

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Hr, wrn. Case,
Janoau.

AlRska.

Dear

At last the akulls you shipped us on Jufte- 19
hare arrired, Th» pttcka^^cohtalned the f ollowii« '
skulls: one adult female Grisaly, «»» innatura mle
Oriitly. one adult bla4* Bear, two Wolrarin^^d •«•
lynr. ?or these lalJall allow, you $8 for the female
Grissly, $9 for thi young mal« Orissly, $2 for the
Black Baai^ and |1 ladi for the Yolvorine and Lynr -
making $16 in all, Thia amount I h&re added to tha
Touoher for the $]^ for the Bemers Bay skull -.in all
$28* i ctieok foriithis amoimt will be, aant you from
l^e Stadthsonlan Ihetitution about tha first of the
year.

If thasa Baar akulla had baen proparly labalad
for tha locality ivhara killad, they would hasra be^i
worth mora laonay* It ia moat axaaperaMi^ to raceiTa
akulla Without poaiti^a inf onoation as to lAiara tha
anlMila wara killadiand of couraa tha aciantlfio ralua
(tf aaah matarlal ia vary littla«

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Ifir. ilbart P. Harse,

Curator of Natural History,
Peabod7 Museum,
Salon, lius.

Dear lb*. Horse:

13ianks for your letter
inst. and aecoBJjjaiqrlqg photographs of the bear skull
just reeeired.

Ttef crtunately photQ^afiis of bears* skulls
•re disappointing and often olsleadlng* I should
greatly ij^reeiata the favor therefore if you will
kindly send ms the akull so that I me^ compare it
with oth«r Calif <rnla Orisalies now in the Hational
Ibsetaiyand add its measuments to ogr tables of ths
Tsrious spMdes. You may be surprised to know that
there are fire apparently distinct species of arisslies
in California. Owtnc to ths scarcity of skulls in col-
lections erery one helps in determinii^ the ohanurters
of the specie^ and yair skull, as shomi by tl» photo-
graphs, is a Teiy fine one and ftaiy adult.

Tou may be interested to know that I hare had
made more than ei^teen hundred photogrijhs of bears*

ft^^?_??* t'ftli; the teeth photogrMJhe are natural sIm
the skull photographs rathsr^gi. *^ "^' nawirai sise

▼ery truly yours*

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Dear Ur. GrrosTenor:

Thanks for your kind invitation to
meet Professor Hiram Bingham and the members of the
Research Committee at lunch at the Cosmos Club on Wed*
nesday, December 30* at 12:30. I shall be very glad
to be present and to learn from Professor Biq^iam what
has been accomplished duripg the past year by his as*
sistants who set out to collect mammals*

Very truly yourSt

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National Geographic Society,
Washington, D* 0.

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Talimt

Washington.

Dear Sir:

The Bear skull you were kind enovigh to send

me arrived a few da3rs ago in excellent condition*

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It is a splendid male from a audi needed locality and
therefore is a most yaluable specimdn. Hence I am al*
lowiic you $50 for it^ a check for idiich amouixt will be
sent you from the Smithsonian Institution about the
first of January.

Should you obtain any other dculls of Grizzlies
from the aama r^ion or aiy other part of Vashingtont
Oregon, Idaho or British Columbia, I shall be obliged
if you will give xm thi opportunity to purchase the

same*

In case there were any incidents of interest

in connection with the hunting or killing of this Bear^
or in case you knoir arything of its foo4, I should ap-
preciate a letter from you on the subject*

Tory truly yours.

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Ddcombdr 23* 1914

Mr. P. A. Tavenert
Dept« of Mines t
OttaiTR.

Dear Ifr* Tavener:

Thanks for your letter of the 16th

this day received* The runwrs you heard about ny

Bear hodt were not well fotmded as the work is not

yet finished. Last sunnier however I published a

batch of descriptions of new species, a copy of

which I am sending you herewith*

I eun delisted to know that you have received
frcm Anderson two skins of half -grown bears from Col-
linson Ea4nib.and hope the skulls will follow and reach
you safely* They are not likely to be Barren Ground
Bear howevert but the one I have recently described
as Tlfatia Intif^^^^^^Q^^^^^^- based on the splendid male
skull in your Uusetm at Ottaira (#1763). killed on the
j^aska^Yukon boundary about fifty miles south of the
Alaska coast, July 3, 1912, by Frederick lambart, of ths
Canadian Boumdary Survey. They are therefore of un-
usual interests

Tou surely are to be congratulated also on re-
ceivii^ skins of the Stellar and Spectacled Biders*

In case there are any small manBials in the lot they
flure sure to prove of interest.

It ^ a terrible pity that men like Allan
Brooks should feel it a duty to enlist in the war.
The world needs sudi men and I feel that the output
of their talent is of vastly more consequence to man-
kind than the part, however inqportant, they are likely
to take in risfcii« their liy^s on the battlefield.

Replying to your qestion, thcj. next groap I
expect to take up after/finishing the Bears is that
of the Wolves and^^gyotes, folloired naturally by the

foxes*

With best .wishes and greetings of the season,

Tery truly yours^

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Mr* Arthur H. Bannon,
rorbsinontht
Qhio^

Ify dear Sir:

Tho Grizzly Bear nig nhich you were kini
encuf^h to aand me, arrived duly and tha remnant of the
original skull has been tciken out and proves of much
intereatt altho\:gh there is not mach of it* The raa^
cal who prepared the specimen sawed off the entire
tcjip of the alcull tjrm the nasal hole backward^ leav-
ing only the jaws and a narrow shelf of boM support-
ing the zygomatic arches* This shelf however con-
tains the palate, a part of which affords characters
In the BearB. The teeth also are of much importance,
so that the specimen is a poj^itiia help to me in my
worlu I wonder if by any chance the taxidermist
saTod the top of the skull jrhich he saired off. If so,
I would give a lot of old boots to see it.

Fra«ar of Boston is making a dumny dcull
which will be put in the skin as soon as it arrives,
after which I will return the rug to you prcoiptly.

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I am obliged to you for Rivin^ „« .^ ,
Sf«ir«^ D^ ^ v« giving me the locality

to U of »,„ th« ortinary mWeat.

with ''^"''"-^ ^^ ""*"• m th. ^tw. «.
»lth man, th«k. ui l„,t .irtiM

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Dear Arch: ,,

Thanks for your Bulletin 5^ datad the
18th inflt^ You astonish ine by saying that the tam-
perature fell to 26^ at our house* This raufirt be an
exceedir^y rare occurrence.

Glad you changed yoiH* milk and butter sup-
ply. It is a poor plan to encourage a man who sells
poor products for good money*

!Qiat ash-houso bueinoss troubles mo. As
this is the first time it has become full, wo have no
precedent to go by* Probably the only way out will
be for Uartinelli to dig a deep hole somsuhere, whare
it can be buried euxl covered up.

You have douibtless found out long before
this that old rotten wood absorbs so much water dur^
ing rains that it doasr. '"> born much better than a wet
sponge. Standing wood, both green and dry, burns
vastly better. You will find plenty of lilacs, dead
or half dead, but still standing. 'Rieso you may con-
sider yourself at liberty to cut and bxim. There are

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thin out thiC Place in t^ltr^ f 7^ *^
nu.ber..,f these in various / "^^"^ *

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t- a. „., ,„ ,,^ ,^ -^- -y bacto the

not t>» ^Z""""" -"li^^aned meas to ^her or
not th. lock for the front door of the .«•

i «,„.n^. ^ ^ ^^^^ «^«»* cane,

m Mot to » by pM-e.Z port .i Lmxaitas nii
have arrived? • . ^ ^** ^°^^

«^^^ »ay b. .bl, to «id ,™ or t« bo„^ „i.
^^^w* li I knoir ezactlv wTi«+ w-^ i ^

fhll. ,T7 "^^ '■""" '-eunlta..

^I CO l„tM a handM or t,o o. .UU.. »^,
fTf^ for Br. B.H. j-^, ,^ ,^ ^..^^^^

part.board box. *loh at ^ tl., .r.p^«, ,„ ,^ „,
th. <ir„.r. in th. rl^ h.^ .«. .f ^ ,„,,

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magr be there still or I may have put them Bomewhera
else • I cannot roneiBber* In case you find them
will you kindly send them to me by mall?

Another thipg we should be glad to have you
send is a handful of Ifabellularia leaves* The entire
family - my sister included - is hwiesick for the
smells

December 29 ^ 1914

Vary truly yours

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89 Sudbury St* J
Boston, Mass^

Dear Sirs:

On attemrptirig to use the dummjr skull you
sent me a few days ago. I find that it is a littla
too small for the head and that the mouth openii^
is too short antero-posterlorly* The main troiibls
is due to the fact that the taxidermist who mounted
the rqg pulled the aqgle of the mouth back as far as
he could, and opened^ the jaws so wide that there is a
gap between the points of the canines.

Oar taxidemist thirfcs that if you will
send us the next largSr sisa dismy. he can make it
work all right. I shall be obliged if you wUl kindly
do tiiis^and will return the other one, paying of course
the difference in price and chajngas*

Tery truly yovurst

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Decenjber 29, 1914

Dear Schaltz:

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AttljTg on the stiimilut afforded by
yourB of the 27th iftet. ^ I am seacUng you by this
mifl a copy of my •preliminary Revision of the
Rmas. " Oh page 5& you will ,f fnd tha original
reference aDd deacrij^tiob of Telia ftoiifnu^r Karr*

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Returning your wishes for a Merry
Ohrirtraas and a Happy New Year to yourself and f ami
ly frcm nr^s'^alf and family

Tery truly yourti^

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Baar Ur. Adams:

Herewith I enclose my expense account

for December amounting to $76. 50, and the aoconipanyii«
vxxxm wu^av I p>ir11 ho obliejad if you will kindly pay
from ths Harriman Trust Fund*

Very truly yours

Accompanying bills:

i558;33

Grertrude M. Allen • stenographer and apsistant

Doedknber 15-31 ^ .^ ^

D. S. Rice • skull of arizzlv from Washington 56-00

W. H. Oasa, Juneau, Alaska -* beal^ and otSer 37.75

skulls
Thoraafl lliirphy. BlocVsburg, Calif. - Grizzly wiA 32*75

otbsr SKulls
John Jonas t Livingstone . Mont* - skiull of Grizzly 10«00
Yairman & Srbe - vertical file cases, card cabi- 176.90

net, transfer cases^ and giiides '

Washington Loan and Trust • rent of office apart- 61. (K
' !2ient f or January with telephone

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Dear Sheldon:

Tou and Mrs. Sheldon would have heard

from UB two or three days ago in reply to yoar kind
invitation but for the reason that Mrs* llerriam has
been in M with a bad cold for aone days* She as
much better to-day howeveFt and expects to be well
in a day or two. The exact day of oor departure there-
fore is uncertain but we expect to be with you on or
about Tuesday t the fifths ^ for a day or two. Will let
you know as soon as practicable. Ye sbill greatly en-
"joy a little visit wiiJh you both.

I have just spoken to Nelson about the matter
of a bear permit for Arch Roosevelt and think there will
be no difficulty in gettitc it« While there are many
localities in Alaska from which bear skulls are more
badly needed than from the Kenai, nevertheless every
one helps and we shall be glad to add to our collection

of kaimianaja ani ftlftTyMJ^ni^^

Have been intending to write you about the
Bannon skulls arul som others that have come in lately ^

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skull - or whav is left of it - from south fork of
MaanlUan. is noir on my desk, harin^ just been removed
frm the rug. The taxldenaist who put the skuU into
the rug. sawed off the back part and also the top,
leaTlqg only the shelf contalnlrs the tg^'^^ .^^^ ^
far as it goes, agrew ^ith your old male from the'uac
mllUn but neither of these fit the skuU which To«
Jeffreys sene you by Bannon and whidi Bannon s*ys was
killed on a fork of Stewart Rirer.

Will write or wire you before we go on.

As ever yoxirs.

lb*. Oharlea Sheldon.
8 test 9th Street,
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eontaiat a piorbm t«k*n 19 yonrMlf , •hewing
a tsM with tl» *M* 9m1W bgr l)oani. This In-

t««sU » tny ■DMh mA t « woodoriiiB if jo^
om tax ■• t*iH4i«r it is th» work of a Qrissly
bMT or a BlMk Bt«r* If you will do tbia I aball
b« ff«atly ddieid. I AooM lik« to par<diaao a
good prti* ft-fl« thla nag»*lT« if you haTo oono for

•ale* '^

I si^poaa yo« haro not Isoao Alo to gat

of aiy arl«rfy Ba«r akolla alnoa I wrote laat.

Tory tndy youra*

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Montana*

My doar Sir:

Last suninsr, in reply to my letters, you
wrote that you escpected to secure some skulls for
me from Yellowstone National ?ark, from which region
I was, and still saf^Tiarticularly anxious to secure aa
naiiy Qrizzly Bear skulls as possible.

Your inmensely interest ijqg article in the
last issue of 'Outdoor Life* emboldens me to write
again to seo if you cannot help me to secure additional
skulls. The specimens we already have in the National
Ifasaum show that at least three entirely distinct species
of Otiaaly Bear reach the Park region - one from the
north, one from the south and southeast, and one from
the eftf«t, I am most anxious therefore to secure as
many skulls as possible in ordier to determine the char-
acters and variations of both males and females of each
of these species.

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Mr* Stanley (>• Jewettt ^ ^

Fish and Grama Oommissiont
630 Pittock BlodCt

Portlandt Oregon*

Decur Mr. Jewatt: . ' .

Many ihanka for ycur courtesy in aend-

ii^ m the copies of the •Oregon Sportaman* f or i:hich
I wrote, and also for lisftSog ma for two copies in ths
futia^* This is a great convenience to me and will
also put the material where it will be sure to be rs-
corded under the appropriate headings.

With best wishes and grsetingi of the season*

Yery truly yourst

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Dear Mr* GrrosTenor:

Very mai^ thanks
for your kindness in sendii^ me such

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a beautifully bound copy of your re-
cent article on *Toux^ Russia.* We
were aiach interested in the article
when it cane out in the NeresA^er
Itagasinat' and read it aloud one
0fmdmg9 enjoying it greatly* ^
With best wishes.

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National Gtoceraphic Society.
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Mr. Gilbert EU Grosvenor, Director,
Nation^ Geographic Society,
iwSiington, D. C.

Dasr ICr. Opoevenor:

Thanks for your letter of the
2ni Inat. , trananittix^ a f oznal and a personal
letter from W. S. Clyde Todd* The same I return
to yoQ hereirith. . <•

While Todd's request is "iNPivhat lrr«gu-
iMT't M t^ say in the Oowmment serrlat, the ob-
ject ill Hm iM so worthy end the mount askeS for
80 «mU C$?803 . that I am in favor of appropri#bing
thfi» WMBft for the Hudson Bay work, and shall be' glad
to vote for tha saoit at the comfng maetii^ of the 80-
c?iaty*8 Reaearch Oomrrdttee*

Very truly yours.

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January 6^ 1915

Mr* Witmer Stona^
Ac add

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Philadelphia, Penn.

Dear Mr. Stone:

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The invitation from the Delaware Valley
Ornithological Club to attend its dinner in conmamorat ion
pf the twenty-fifth annirarsary of its foundation, on
Thursday evening, the 7th inst., has lain on my desk un-
acknowledged for some timei I wanted to go to tYa dinner
•ad hare put off writing in the hope that events would so
■h^e themselves as to enable me to meet your members on
that iaqportant and agreeable occajpon. Now, at the last
manent, I. find that it will be Impracticable to go. This
is a great lisappolntmant. . "' i?.-i-i^-oL

I hope you will express my regrets to the raam-
ber^and at the same time cor^5ratulat« Ihara, and inci-
dentally yourself, on the iplealid wort acccmpllshed by
the Club. If there is anyr Other otganliatioa in America
wfilch has done so much to advanos. the knowledge of a local
fauna, I have ngtvaife heard »f it.

Trusting that the future of the Club will be
suasessful as the past, and with best wishes to yo« all
and sincere regrests that I cannot be with you.

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January 6, 1915

Ify dear Hallor:

Your telagraun oamo prcoiptly and
your latter of tho s^na day [Januarf i\ has thia
moment reached me^anl I have ha4 & conyersatioxr
wi'Ui Ifr. Groavenor over the phone on the subjeot*

The aalary you meat ion [$250 per month]
ia a lltlSU higher than we had aaq)ected hut Ur«
Groavenor thlnka the Reaearch Oomnittee will maka
the neceaaary appropriation* We expect to hold a
meJbing within the next few day a*

But you are way .off in thinkiqg that your
work-^11 be in the tropica. Moat of it. if I am
not greatly miataken, will be at or above an altl-
tude of 8t000 feet and much of It much higher.
^ You may find it de air able to make special tripa to
lower araaa in onier toglre more range to your col-
lectiona^but thia will reat entirely with yoiu

The more photqgriq;)ha ydu ta'-e^ the better ^
porticularlj ■aoh as relate to your ovn part of the

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Bat you wlU Ih, bare so soon that It is
h^dly worth while to go orer the ^^ ^ i.^ter.
If you can come i„ the nelgjiborixood of the 20th I
.think that you would have plenty of tims to do the
necessary work of preparation.

I am awfully Sony you did not stsoeed In

9btainl^g aheap m n.^,^ j^. ^^ certainly *etter
to kill speciaans for presenration In our muaeuifls
rather than have them shot by local hunters,
r With kind regards to Dr. Grlnnell.

Very truly ydkira«

ttr. ffibnnd Heller,

ttiseum of Vertebrate 7oo1oct.
^ ^ Berkeley, Oallf. ^^'
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Bear Todd:

R»ttirnlx« from a Tlsit to Nw York, I

luuiten to reply to your letter dated December 1.
and f orwtfded to mf office throu^ «r. Grosrenor,

TieTara a good omlthologiet and you mean
to "be a good hof^^J^^ eo«etlraea do thing* «hlch
are hl^y i#roper. This ia a case in point. Can
you not sea t^t to a* a person to gire you a letter
of introdflction to a rery buqr •»! ▼«ry prominent man
In order that you my have a personal interrler with
him on a matter entirely unknowi to the person of
ufaon you mate the request, is an in^roper thing to do?
I hajre nerer in ny life giten a friend a letter of in-
troduction tnder such circumstances and I am not going
to begin at my present tim» of life.

Your proposition to the Society for a retro-
active appropriation is of course decidedly irregular.
NeTortheless under the cirouostances I shall faror it
when the matter coaes before the conmdttee on research
doubtless within a few days.

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.n . «»Il«t;« fa *ol. or In rart. it

*ll events It i« »Mi4.v v , i^«t». At

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Very tnily yours.

Ifr. 7. jB. Olyde Todd,

Oanwcie Ifuseci

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Ify dear Ifrs* Liviiestone: & cr^

Thanks for your pontoard

j\i«t rocaiTadt asking ms to send your brot'i^r^a _.
Muaiacrlpt to you at Nutlay^ in accordance with hi»
azpraaaad wish*

I ftm aandii^ it with thia latter by axpraaa
prepaid and trust it will reach you safely*

Dr* Wheeler asked if I thought this article
worth pabliahli«« It jsurely is worth publishing and
will form the most conplete record known to me of the
morements of the Barren Ground Caribou in the region
traversed by hisu *

Ihe acccBipaiTing map alao is a distinct con*
trlbotioK and lAiould acccsqpany the article* On this
xsg^ lake #14 which in the legend is called *lfy Net Lake'
and aaid to be probably identical with Pere Fetitot^s
Lac 8te« Croix« is probably Lac Sarahk of Bell* Lac
Ste. Croix of Fetitct is a little way farther norths
I am informed by S« A. Preble, author of a work en*

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Md Mackenzie Racdoifc.* n -i.

I.V.. ^^-^^BAn concerning these

lakes occur on pa^e 115 of this woit.

^ ''^"^•'- i^ your brother sa,. or procared any
-pacl^ of the tree which on his first ioun^ay he re-
ferred to as a fit. No fir Is known fr«. this region
and we asked hla. p«.ticularly to brl,^ hack a specimen
on his next trip. If he did this we shall be exceedingly
glad to Identify it positively.

In conrpllance with your brother's request I
'am'encloslng herewith a list of the Identifications nuide
by our bot«il«t, P. 7. .Jovllle. of the pl«t« sent me
for Identification last sutuBr.

Very truly yours.

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Hants Collactad by Dr. DaTld 8. Vhealsr
on Great Slars Laks and Barren Qromia in July and
Ai0iBt, 19U. (Determined by F. 7. CoviUe)

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Indian nama: J^antap

From Big StonB Hill naar Fort Bntarprlaa^
July 28, 1913* Barrlaa naarly ripa* Barriaa
ripa Au0iat 10« IxiAiana aay caribou aat thla
. plan^. Barriaa blabk with purpla juioa^ watary*
awaatt with a larga 8aad«

Lata of tha Round Rodc^ Auguat aB« Found
all ovar Barrana. Laavaa tivrnad color [rad]

Augoat 10.

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V«fteiTd«t Ml iylnomai L. (apparently)

Top of Big Stone Rill near Fort Snterpriaa,
,July 28. 1913.

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.¥int«r River, Aogiagt 27. 1913. law Badii
'arry". It is found well out «h tte Barren
(Jroundfl. Wie berry is oral, red ani tastes like

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(L.) Sprang*

Intqq or Itm^Iw.

iaka, Aoguat 29^ 191S% Found tbroa^out

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uie tiiAiered cotUtry bat not on the Barren Grounds*
Bears a red berry with a large seed wucli tastes
like rtsr staxth. Roasted or fried t)w Itsrxy is pala-
table.

Dog Lake (tli Ti). June 25. 191S. Beg Lake
is the sseond lake north of the divlie on ths
Raa - Bear Lake trail.

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of Wintor RiTor. July 29, 1913. Boes and waeps

svarmad aboot tha flowara, 8on» of #iich wefa in
sead, lika danialion aeadiB. Stama two faat high,
one inch thick.

(L.) Daar.
Indian nam»t 0«« trir ti - Bw-ron Ground Toiacco.
Barrans naar Fort Intorpriaa, July SO, 1913.
Fourf all orer thi Barran Grounda. In June haara
pink star-ahapad flovars. Plant two faat loog.
Procunibazib. «

Mouth of Wintar Rirar, July 29, 1913. Tba
yallov onea wora also aaaa aast of Jjaba Ti,

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Ft'om a Idea mar tha divida batvaan Oraat
Slava Laka and Graat Baar Laka, Juna 25, 1913.

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Horth AT. araat Slava USt^i J^ly ''. l^^^'
^iU Onion-. Root bulb amall. lika onion.

north Ar« Groat Sla^a Lak», J^lY 7- 1^^'

Fort Raa, July 3. WIS.

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Fort Raa, Svlj 3. WIS.

Fort Raa, July, WIS.

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Jamuy 6, 1915

Bear Prof om or Kofold:

Ta^on my delay in replying

to your letter of Decenfcer 12, oa the subject of
loological excurBions in connectiMi with the ^Jali-
fomi* meetii^B of the t^tIoub scientific sqpieties.
Your suggestion to provide for excursions to the
msrine laboratory of Stanford at Monterey, indud&g
the reefs and beMhee of- the Tmyt *o the mairine col-
lectir« groaiids of Oatallna Islandt to the Scrippi
Infltltution at La Jollatand to the asphalt bede of
Raacho La Breat strikes » as admirable - provided,
of course t that enoof^ interested persons are able
to sperd the tima azxl money necessary to visit these

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interefli>i|g^ places* t

Dr. Walter Fisher t as you suggest « wculd be
an excellenb laan to arrange for the marine exoursionsi
Br. Joseph Grlnnail for a trip to Yosmitetand Dr«
John 0« ]iarri«»t ^ Rancho La Brea. Personally I
riiall be thankful for anything you are able to do
in the way of accoopli^ii^ the results indicated^

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Profe Charles A. Kofoidt

American Assoc, far the Advancement of Sciencet ?
Berkeleyt CalifGmla

Mr. Le W. Jenkins*

A{^si start Director,
Peabody Miseush,
Salem, Maiss.

Dear Sir:

Yery nwny thaiks :f or your letter of Decem-
ber aOt^inforaipg ime that, you had sV.ipped by express
tha Oallf<arnia Orlssly skull, fcr -the loan of which
I had asked. It arrived yesterday in' aoccellent con-
idtion, for whic'h I am greatly obliged.

It is u qplndid specimen of more tham usual
sise BiA I appreciate the privilege of comparing it
with o\xr specimens here in the National nonaction*

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[f ornla Stafc© AutonoDile ham^
1626 Tan Neaa ATenue.

8an Tztoieiaco, Oalix*

Dear Sir:

Tour letter of Doceiriber 29 relatlT© to In-
surance on my Cherrol^t "Big Six" mx reached tm today,

f<»> which I am obligsd.

I am anclosli^ herewltli ny check for $25.20
In p^nent of jrendoB In a'UJordaBce with your etate-
ment, together with the blank c<mtatoli« a description
of the automoblH which 1 hare coa^leted.

Thanking you for your courtesy In the natter.

Respectfollyt ^

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Ify dear Mr- Di^gett:

Tery many thanks for your cour-
tesy in forwarding the two Grizzly Bear «kuUs from
your Ifeissum and also the. two ekolls frcm Ranoho La
Brea. I have just taken a preliminary qIumo at
them and am thrilled with delight that you should
hare obtained from th» a»phalt beds such won* erfully
perfect arecimans. The email skull at first glance
appears to be the female of

tarmBJH* » '«ni until recently iiihabltii« the Tsj
region and the mountains between t\» Tejon ani Los
Alleles. The other skull is widely different from
any I hare seen, and in addition to its he^ size,
is of enoinouB interest*^ I wUh iie had ita lover
jMT or one of the «ame species.

A little latar I will write yoa more about
these. Ueanshile I ooqgratialate yoa on the posses-
sion of such QBgnificent specimsns, and I lock for*
ward to seeix^ the Izsperial £lephant you are nos
mounting.

With best wishes and mcsny thanks.

?ex7 truly yours »
Ifr. Frant S. Dsg09tt| Director ^ ^^^^

Ifciseum of History. -cience and Art, *^^

Los Angeles 9 Oalif.

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January 7^ 1915

Dear Mr. Groavonor:

Tour not 1m of tha coDir^ elactlon
of managera remlnda ma of aomBthixe I faaTa intexdad to
apaak to you about for aoma timo: namaly, tha acareity
of geographic aiq;^lorar8 amois tha rmiA^erm of our Board.
Hie Board conaiata of a large nonber of flplendid man
idio have made anviable racorda in Tarioua waya, iDut few
who have contributad to our knowladga of the gaqgraphy
of tha world either directly aa ejgplorarSt or indirect-;
ly in elaborating reaulta of exploration. Do you not
agree with ne that we ahoxildt ao far aa ia practicablet
strongthen our Board in thia reap act?

With thia object in view I vhould like to nomi*
nate Idward ¥« Nelaon^ Aaaiatant Chief of tha IT« S.
Biological -^^uryay. Ifr. Nelaon« aa you doobtlaaa know,
haa a loiig record in tha field of geographic reaeardu
Nearly forty year a ncp h$ went to Alaaka where « durli^
a period of five yearat ha made not only extenaira con-
tributiona to nattaral hiatoryt but alao nmda acoe of tha
loqgeat aledga joumaya with d^a and lakimo bybt «da
ly a white aasi. Ha waa alao natural iat of tha •Conrin*
during the Arctic aearch axpedii^ion for t^e •JeannetteV

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tha Death Tilay en^dlticx. ^Ur ^i^ for about
fifteen year, he had char^ of the Biological Sur-
^•y. a>:plar«tlon. In Mexico. carrylr« on field woA
In erery atata ^ tarrltoir of that courf^ry and add-
fc« hondrada of apeclea and a considerable number of
genera to the knoim fauna of North Anerlca.

Ifr. Hela«n»8 publicationa Include an illua-
trabed quarto work on tha natural hlatory of Alaska .
•Blpia of Baring Sea and the Arctic Ocean'. 'The Sa-
klmo about Berlin Straits* , also a otoograph on the
•Squlrrela of Mexico and Central America*, a monofettph
on the •Rabbits of North, America* arid fiumeroua minor
publications, mainly on birds and nMmraas.

He haa served aa preeident of tha ' Am r lean
Qmlthologlats* Ifelon and the Biologio«a Society of
Washington, and Tlca-prasident of th^laahlxfeton Aoad-
ooiy of Sciences,

Among hi a manascrlpts now «niltli^ publica-
tion are in^rtant papers on the pbjtelogr^phy of Mexico
and the phys iogriphy and natural histiwy^f the penin-
sula of lower California.

In losing over the list of membara of tlv
Board I do not find ar^one who has conducted such ex-

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tenslre field eorplorations, arbendli^ from the tropics
to the Arctic Ooaan« or nho bus wfdm more in^ortani
contributimB t# geogragphic biology*

Tnuiting that you will a^ee with w in tho
doBirabillty of strengtheoiing our Board by the elac*
tion of Ur. Nelson.

Tory truly yours^

Ur. Silbert H^ Grosvenort Director*

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Jamary 7^ 1915

ify dear Baxter North:

Toiar letter of the 4th inab^t
tranMdtting your adndrabla memarial of Heivry Gan«
netifdld not raadi w uniil yeaterday oviog to lay
abaeooa in Nev Tork* ^

The meiBorial coastalaa a f ev alight arrora
which I will pfoaaad to enxairata categorically,
incidentally conmnbiqg on one or two othai^ pointa«

On page 5 you atata: *He wm the f irat mui
to aacend Ut. Whitnay"^ Hare you nnqaeetioned proof
of thia? Othevwiae I ahould heaitate to pnblidi the
atateoient^ .^

On page 7 you aay that the Surrey ahould
hare been named the Geological and QecCTPhical Sur«
toy* GoodI That :a exactly ri^t^ and had thia truly
deacriptiTe none been adopted it would hara aanred nidi
wrangling in Coqgraaa orar the reaacoa wbj the Geo-
logical Survey ahould apani money on the prepaxmtion
of mapa*

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On page 7 also you ■•otion 1r. ¥• ^« HolaM
h«ad cantor of tho Katioiml UaaooB*, as em of th«

.ben of^e ^^ •-.y.. Tou d«Hla.. rafr f

L^l !^* *-^ ^ «'• «^« ^-W Of ,t,«olo«y
F W rr^" Of the .arty ^r.ey. you ^^

Il\<^T' ^•'*'' "•'•*•"• ^•.*»^« ^- ^--^

«- Wllll.„ H. IWl. I .0 not think th.t ^ of tiae
«n were arer n«*a„ of «^ of the early S«r.^.. ^.
^ Dr. naU publiah.4 on nateria coUectad by the
8«T^, Bat If you ar. gpir^ to nam. n«nber. of the
wlr Surr^. 1% on earth do you carft the principal
-•n. ««* a. J. W. PoireU, OUnnce Kii«. Arnold Hague.
Fra* taona, Raphael Poapally. John IL Coulter and
tn-awou. othen whoae n«ea an kno«i the world ow.

ft» P«6» « you aay: -ti 1887 he baem the uaa
«f the plaln^tabla fcp pUttI,« roada. etc. in the

fi^ld. • If I „ not miataken. plattlr« roada »ae a

«^iiy «all pArt ctf thauae of the plidn taUe,

roada being Uld in by traTerae. !Iha main uae of the

plaln-tdAt^aa in si^rtiag r«ra«i«nt landmarka ai^

In akatehing in on the ^ot the actual detaila of

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top<«ri5hy. 1 haTa atooi by Gannett 'a aide amy a
digr-Wiile he «aa aogagad in thia wort. In connection
with which he explained to m Ita «reat BiiB«ri«M+..

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orar tht old msthod of cmqpatiqs P<
triganomotrieal work and^ skatchiqg
ward in the office^ - # ^

Ota pag98 10 and^ IS joa mentioi
Sloane, vlthoixt the tamiDMl "•* on tbi
nam. He innuriably signa Ms duw S-]
I have just Terlfiod thift from a stack

At tha bottom of ja^a ITkthi <
flrat edition of QanwttU 'Dictionary

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On page 22 yea aaj that the Geographical
Society vaa duriatenad^ *Matlonal* l>ecanae located at
the mtioaul coital* Thia to 119 foggy Intellaei la
mnbigaooia and xuof he intarf rated aa a loeal dealgna*
tion rather than a broad genmrml one. te cms of the
fo«ndar» of the Socially I an prepaid to atata top
fMOifiadXy that the nana 'KatioDBl* waa aaaaoMd
after dna deliberation aa indicating the acope intended
for the Society. <

On the a«M pagpi you aa^ that the liigMina in
t)M early dayi "vaa atrietly technical in oontenta*.
Tea vtaat hare dreanad thia. If yon irtll Jtoolc at a
of the early waimn yda will aee hov far yoa

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•re off the track. In thoee early da,. t>» «^ine
~ Indeed a feeble forerunner of fte preeent lariiihly
Hlaatr«t«| end W^y attractlTe publication but
•technical* la not the rf*t woid to xme in describ-
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to page 21 you a«gp -He aae not glTan to con-
^ trdreray and noTer aought if. Knowing Gannett aa
wall aa you did I can only infer that you uae the
wort 'dontfftrersjr In a different aenae fnn ita ordl-
miy si^flcanoe. From a rather intlnate pareonal
aequalniance with Gannett, extend li« orer some forty-
three year*. I ahould cliMa him as one of the moat
eontroveraia men I haTeteVer known. It waa thia Tory
quality whidi attracted hiH to the Scotdamn John llulr
on the ftrriman axpeditien. Did yoti erer know Gannett
to fail to take the opposite aide in any axgament? Ria
controTeray of courae had a deep atreak of hunor in it.
ireTflTthaleaa T hardly aee how thia phaae of hia chaiae-
tar can be deacribad In negatlYe tarw.

- Tlia protf I amretundng to you bsrewith, «r-
««!*^ P«e»» «6 to 88. c(Bf)riaIi« DaU'a addreaa at
the ftmarai and the raaointiona adapted by aeteral
aooiatiaw. These I Aotdd Ilka to kam If -^^ a^ ««♦

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S£S ^?t»,45*r*"* wrlttan a «ta«idld tribute to Gan-
gU IJrwhiAi. „ ^ ^f hia^^fjilo^ friend.. ""

Ifr. S. H. Dexter ^crth ^^'^ truly youra, ,

2 Jackson PUiSV^* *%»

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Dmt 0. K.:

. Yauan of the 27^h f rem tjM?»nltM j^liwi
that wa nead not strain Aur eyas lookii« for |p^ for
savaral daj* to eoiai*: *

I am raaXly painad to knov that jou hava
raa«had thl* draadfal eoxptdaney inqpllad by tha wei^
yoa nsntion • 199 poondai Conf idantially, I will adc
for your ayojpatbj, einoa yaatarday onmiog I .diacoTorad
to rrj horror that the aoalaa pot iqr voig^ at^212«
Thera onat "be aanabhi^s tlia msbtar with tha acalae*

Say bafora yattarday iTisitad tha Auto
Show In V9W Tark and apa^t the nic^t with tha Sh^Uooa,
Orinnall was thara for dimiar and tha aTaning. Ellia^
balfa ymd azpactad to go Vat TrmA tha hard lode to tote
a ratfaar af rara cold. SIm ia battar now howavar and
baa gona to CaBbridga to>Tiait Dorothy*

maB IhaMaatar waa at oat honsa idian I laft
hot bad flovB bafora nqr ratonu

- Iridailtly I omda a niatdca in;.not laariqg
saoB aartridsf* handy, loadad with pappar and chot.
Ton odaaad a graai opportunity whan that fallow o«m
np to axaodnt wf spriqe* Hop# yoa or Arch idll hnm
th« gun roaiy for hia mxt tifl»«

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- 'Ihat houaa alta acrosa tha ro«l fran ua
to thr waat waa balqg axoavatad bafora wa laft. I
don^t rmmab^ tha rr^'smm^ but ho la «dd to ba
a waaltlv contn«?tor who buUda atationa for tha
«ailr«oda.

ia aver yours.

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0. K. Silbart,
i.a®inita8,

fcrin Co. ,
Calif,

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Thanks for bollttiloi 6 and 7 at liiiL li

that fellov comaa tip to look at ay siring sealntest
1^^ i%4m m-nA r^ii Viifl rflnsMlns dom the mountaiiu

Tou seem to he pretty hard on that little
wife of yours* ' Better he earef^al and not wear her out
yea nay need her 1 oter* Ibis taking a girl for her
f ir«t walk up to the top- of Bsmtby, is pretty seTere,
especially when coiqpled with the threat to walk her
«Ter to lavemass a day or two later. Ton are nioh a
powerftil loi«-lefB«A giant yoo prohaibly hajren* t the
faintest idea what it means to an ordinary parson to

take saeh tmqps* *

That ruBBJblli^ In the holler Is probably due
to poor plmabing* I don't know whak to do to atojp it
but suppose a first elass ploaber would know* I
should hare naie a hit at it before eseept thai dur-
ing ^f absence when the hoose was building the pl'jaber
and carpenter riolated i^ InstruotdODS and hid all the
pipii^ 80 tlwb it c«i*t b« got at witbout tearing up
thing** I spoke to a boiler oaa in San Araneiseo

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about it and he said that the trouble was likely to
be th» result of faulty boiler connections. He said
the Aot water should enter the boiler at the top by
iw*ns of a pipe which should extend dtHm at least
Ualf the height of the boiler.

aUd to know that the tall tanbark Ias taken
its turn in the firepUce. Ifany ot>Brs should follow.

I hare already written you about the books
fran New York. They were intended to repose at Lagnnl
tas « not to be returned here.

I am surprised that fturtineUl kaa not begun
work for us yet. Doubtless he has other Jobs and can
attend to ours at any time between now and the. middle
of April. *

The endosed memorandum respectii^ electric
lifting I th<M^t I had left on my desk for you with
the othersjbut it has just turned up here* So in case
you fe»l maj preraonitions of on-conning wires you had
better get a shotgun out< from the side of the diimney
and hare, it handy.

Tou ou^ to hare been with me at the Auto
Show in New Text day before yesterday. But I had bet*
ter not attempt to say argrthing about it or I shall »▼(
finish this letter.

▼1th loTe to you all. .-p «^
Mr. Archli. Gilbert,

Laganltte,
Calif.

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January 7, 1915

My dear Mm. Taylor: "

Your letter of December 14 came duly

»ut I waa not aUe until yesterday to learn about the
tensue publications on Indiana. The brief nam^rj re-
ferred to, as published last spring. •««•" to be oufc
of print and I baye not been able to secure a copy. Th»
aain Tolume is nor, T unlerstand. In gaUey proof and
will be issued, it it eapdcted, shout April. By apply-
ing to the CongressM* frcm your district yoa can doubt-
less secure * copy as soon as issued. I wish I could
help you to sscure a copy earUfr but the office sBpears
-to be disinclined-^Jtolet aiyona see the proof until the

book is actually ready for publication.

Ifrs. Itorriam and I are delighted to kno» that

y«a are 80 ftiUy recoTerSd from your serere illness.

Wever mini the decorationa; they will come lat«r.

▼e hope to make a decided braak this year by

goli« to <5alifomia in AprU.and shaU hope to see yon

whoneTer you are in the Bay region.

With kiniest regards to ywnrself and Pr<rfessor

Taylor, in irhich Mrs. Merrlam joins.

UTS. Georp^ fl. Taylor,
Tresno,

Very tr»jly yours.

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Dear Sage:

In rUivs some old letters to,4ar I cams
acroas the enclosed acceptances «f exotic member^lip
in the Americai Ornithologists' U/ilon. A^ they
doubtless belong to the Secretary a tiU* and not to
ay personal files, I am transmittlr^ than herewith.

With kindeat regardfl to you all arxi hopli^
to Ma a liberal contingent of the Sage family in
Ball fornian est eprirg.

As ^Ter youTBt

Mr. John H. Saga^Seori^tary,

American Qrnlthdlosfaiia* Union,
PortUnd. ^^

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January 8, 1915

Tfy da^T Mr» Qleason:

Your latter of December 19 has
caused 9k lot of digging 9Lhd the cleaning off of the
dust of years from packages of photographs and naga-
tlTss ifhlch ha:ire been burled for a long time. Finally,
last erenii^g I discovered my original Bogoslof negatives
takoiv iugtist 11, 1891. There are a lot of these but the
two which I considered bast (from which the panoraniio
view published in tiie Harrimm expedition ani by the
Smithsonian was raade) are enclosed herewith so that you
may make your own slides from them.

Ify photographs of Pavlof ani Fairweather were
taken nine years later, when on the Harriman expedition,
and are the property of the U. S. Biological Survey.
Tb» best PaTlof negative^ I think, is number 225. Two
other good ones are 223 and 260. The best Fairweather
is probab^^280. althcigh 278 also is good. I am en-
closing ajprint of Fairweather 280 and also of the north
si* of toUsge Fiord. showli« Bryn Ifawr Glacier (117),
"■hich kindly return when you have done with them. They
will show you whether or not you deslz« slides from

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''■ny thanks tor vcr r,v, *

^^— ^* ^- a be.ty al^.^^-^^ " ^''^
P«-i«on with ours of 1899. ^""^'^^^^^ in com.

^tlh best wishes.

Very tnily yourg.

Pij^^ey StreS:
Boston, Mus.

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]f7 dear Vtc. Bllworth: _,

Your lattW' came d\ily «» wae

acted on pro^tly.but « y<« did not give me m^
dr... I dW not icno* w^re to send you a 11m.
m eendlr^ «.!. to yoa at Lo. Angeles at the «eB--
tlon of Mr. Holaoiu .

I m not for^t to wiU 0« l.tt.r y<« »6-

6«t.d l«t .Trl.«.b«t o. r^lpt of J0« of H«»-

h« „«, l>«n ..tU.d in ^wr f«r»r. » joa 4«M1«.
h»« !.««« or -111 1«« in th. ««• fatur.. ^

«»t.»« l>.e«» of ttc Ori»lj Baur *oll«
fr«i T.l.sr«h Orwk? 1 ATOM to -l*ty sl-« *o «.

th» « .«iy " « '• prw*"""' f <r rom» *^

thorn on. *

Hoping yoa are baTlrg .«oes- in your effort.

to obtain ahe^. «id with greeting, of the aeaaen.

Tory truly yotarPt

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Bear Hr. ^loana:

^ R^lyiqg to your letter of yeeterday
iiKipiirlqg MB 1^ tlie location in California of the
Blaek Chriier regiont would eay that the <mly Blade
Crater whose name as nch appeal^ on the laq^eo far
as knoim to na^ ie the tee inmediitely northeast of
.Vt. Shasta. ^^^ ''^

The mzae howerer is applied loeally to several

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other craters in the StatOt c^ ^cr Instance the one
otherwise known as Shingletown ButtOt on the north side
^f of Battle Creekt direct]/ north of Inskip Hill; one necur

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the line of craters JNist south of Kfono Lake; one £n Ovens
. %alleyt som distance north of Inlependenee; and one at
the extreoe heed of Death Valley^ in the danyon on tha
sooth slope of 1ft. liigruder.

If ^northern Calif omiat tfeis chaiioes are that
the one iniBediat#ly northeast of Shasia is meant.

Tesy truly yours t

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S. Slosns, Se^etary.

n« S. Gkio0ra]Mc Boards

< Census T)ffioe«

Waahiqgton« D. 9.

?t ^« TtKyr letter calls for an encloeure idiich
t^Drthccnd^g*

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D»ar ?rofa»a«r Slrod:

^^ you yet secured ai^ dcull
or AvllM of tirizzlj Bevalbr your Maseua, or do you
kno» of any peraon or auaea* harli^ one or more alculla
which*! Bright bomw? I m MtrwBBly anxiooa to aaa
•a nmy dralla aa poaaibla Ufore I pabllah vj monogrq
•hich la now rqpldly neariqg conipletion. I vaa told
lately that you ml^t have a akuU or two from the
■oartadaa eept of Hathead lake. I bare a youi^ mala
Crlaaly from ?kola hut have not eaen the akull if an
adult from that region.

Very truly yours.

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^IQ^aoula,

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January 9, 1915

Crodcer National Bank. ,
San fttmclaco, Calif. ■■-[

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Toar statemOTit of my account for Deoeafcor

joMt racaiTod, randiria ms that I hacro not raoaiTod tha
statananba and accoii^wayinK chscka for Oetobar and No-
T6^ar. Thlo doubtlaaa ia ny f «lt almca^ tl» laat tlM
I Tlalted your ba*, about tha and of Oetobar, I told
ths yoi»« mm in tba atat««wt d^artmsnt tJiat I would
call for «» October atataMxik aarly in Hof amber* It
hmpfemi that I na»t raaehed Sao Franciaco on Saturday
afternoon after tb» bank had oloaed, and left for the
last n«t day, eo Iwaa unable to get the atatemenfc in

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Iff dear Prof aaaor Shimak:

, Recently I have been told
that you h«»e a great collecGion of yertehrata booM
from glacial p:r«rela on thi northeni plaina. I «»
irondaring if saons t>»8e there chance to be aiy aknlla
or.teeth of Beara. Junt now I m tryii« to coeq>lete a
mojpgrai* of >he Big Beam, on which I hare been engaged
for a mmiber ^of yeara, and am anxioua to aee aa ma<^
material a« poaeible. It i. a caae where erery little
Iflp^and ^;, fro. Nelraaka. tiia Dakotaa. and weatem
■ontana ara parti^l.rly_ needed. If you hare aiy materU
P^ iW» ^In* »Mch you are waiiig to loan me. I ahaU '
be greatly obliged, I ahould thank you aleo if you could
glTe me th** ^dreae of any peraon or ouaetn poaaeaaii^
one or more ataOla of Oriaaly Beara.

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lly d«ar Lleutanant Bn«M»J ;^

It i« gDOd,tc hMLT ftrom yea

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agUn.azal I t>»ric foa for your interesting p^er on
«be ITitseaM, wMdi I hare juat real. Vhai 4' fine tMng
it it that you are collect ing infonnitian on ttiese
rigidly diiqppeMring or cMnglaK tribeii ^

I knoir Dr. TTewcoribe T-ecsonaUy and have the
sans hi^ oplhiaa of him that you ha»e» t aa not
surprised at i^iat he says' about the starfiahes loaned
Profeasor Terrill. His moaeun is by no iiiaais the only
OM tlat >«s suffered in the sama nf* Professor Terrill
has the reputation of holding on to speoimans for a Tery
lose • sonatiaas an indsfinite - tins. Ha is nsv a
Tery old fflim anl is OTarwhelmad with work; tryii^ to com-
plote a monogrqfih on a grocgp of narina animals placed
in his hands by Professor Agassis a few years before

AfnuBsix's death* .

Prof assor Terrill liTes tt Nov HaTea* as yoa
doubtless knov, and I would aoggest that Or. Ttoveomba
prod hin at frs<|asnt interrals in order to stir him vgp
sufficiently to git him to pack and return the apeoi*
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of the Harriman ▼olumsa^ the entire edition of which
ia now in. the hands of tl» Saithsoj^an TnstltutioD,
where they are on aale at cost of publication. A e^
Uik hxnbar of ccipias were distribu&d to public li-
bi'aries and vtaecne at Hem, Harriman* a expens^and i^
tha total ludMT aTailable for thia purpose 1;^ not
Wn distrfbutad, I shoal* think the Tictoria Xissm

yi^ obtain a -eei*'

' ilfcv. tarrim is now risiting our married

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'daogt^ar Dorothy at Cadbridea.
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.i^qpirixe Al^out Bear .^kulls^ .,

.fl»t yo» t^U aa io^ tke af faeV that UtIi^
Grlssll«« «ra atUl to ba found In tha lCl«u^h |.«ke
ragjOT IntawatB ns greatly^ a« I liad ■rooaed th«
axtlnct in that region. , If you knov of ai^ Orl««ly
•kuU In tha i^WMaa^on of a^jr Indian or at^ona elaa
I Bhall te glad to p^r f rtte $10 to $50 for it, lieeozd-
^ *<> ■«.W and condition, and the aana for anj
that m^ be klllad in tl» fotura.

Tbanka for tha Intareatlug photaeraiil» of
•oenoa of your recent Bear hunts. 1 should ba glad
to aacora a doaen or mora akulla of BlMk Bean tr cm
your rasJon. for whidi I wUl pay frca $3 to $6 aadi,
aeearding to aax, aga and ooodition.

In oaaa you sanA ■» aigr skttlla ^a«M t^a
fc tag to each ona. giri^g the I'ocaUty vfaara it aaa
kiUed, w^ToxirmU date, aaz if knoro, and your om

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cooonionar but In 8O09 r^o]iB«aa in parta of Wav Vazico
and tha northwoatam coaat of Calif omia* brbaor la
tha dominant color* In other plaoaat aa in tba 9iarrat
thay aeam to ba about aranly diridad^ Tha caaa aaaaai
parallel to that of tha little aaraadh oalt i/bidk, aa
yoQ knoa« may ba aithar rad or graj« ikt ay hoam in
northam Hav Torit tha ffrtff pfaMvi vaa dooinant and tba
rod alaioat unknoant whila doan bare in tha Vivtriet of
ColuoMa, rad ia tha doalnant phaaa i

VrmiM liitaAaa ia a aoalham a|a#iaa aharao*
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Iff dear i^ofasaor Biqghm:

Heller inuxta $250 per month
for the trip wad Ur. Groer^or thinks it wi
right to pay thia aalary. He expects to be
time beUreeii 'Hiiifi 15th Mi the aQth^ ihidh will give
him a month in whic> to prepare for the work* tf he
eomoe before the 18th T will tell him t^^at you will
be glad to see him. at Kev ffatren on thai date. I 8t9«
pose a few days later will not matter* His main work
of preparatioo will be here of cotrse« in favUiaris-

lelf with what ie known of the Tertebrate facoia
of the region^ Osgood is still tere and will doobtl
be able to giTe him information of Talue« It mi^t
woU also for him to ftao Qtafomn, if this is praetic

I don't knov siqrtfiiiig about Bassatt, m t
think I maotionod la m^ hasty not*.

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I>»ar Seton:

ThanJta tpjr your lattar of th. %fv «

P«^er fro.'jr.r.: *' " ^^ ^ /- -i
, « your -matorlas of Uprthem Anlmls'

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Professor Hiram Bim^iaBit
Yale UhiTeraiVy^

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Jamary 9« 1915

Dear Dr« VaeDoi^^:

What a miaantbla falloar you ara
to oooia to tuliinstoa and allp out ogain withtat iBttli^
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ftit as a partial atonoMRit vd afa&ll be algh^
eflad to M« Or* and Ifrs* 7oiT««t Shrovt and sinv th««
our Indian baskots and angrthiqg olaa thay would lika to
ssa. Hoat of all wo ahall Im gjad to meat th«H.

I will fox^va.jou this tina but don't avor
do it again. With beat wiabaa.

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Mjr dear Dr. Dabney;

An apology i« due you for ny delay
in aoknowfad6i^g your card transmitting your remarks be
fore the Copgreasional Comnittae- on iducation. It got
sida-tracked with a lot of Ohriotmaa carda and leaflets
and has only now ^oms to light.

I hare read with keen intareat your account
of our early actirlttes aiming at the establiahmant of
a Rational Ifairersity and apparently culmimtii^ in the
foundation of the Carnegie rnstitution. TOat you have
said agrees with ay memory in the mttar and I find
^-nothing to ea»fl>ct.

Ify family and 1 motored across the continent
last sanMfr, as «a did in 1913. and remained at Laguni-
taa until Nof saber. When you come to California next
sumaer to aea the big ahow. let ua know «i^e shall be
glad to introduce you to the Redwood cot«kry in which
we are fortunate enou^ to hava^our suaoBr home* Mr
sunaar address is lagunitas, Uarin County.

rWith kii4e8t ragltrde and be«t wiahee to you
and lira, fiabney.

Very truly yours.

Or. Charlaa W. Dabney,

President, Ifeiv. of Cincinnati,
Cineimati. Ohio.

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D8€ir Arch:

Bulletin #6 just at hand* Glad thi- booka
arrived all rl^it* They tally ?rith my bill* Thanks
also for information about the numbers of 'North Anwri-
can Fauna* « I shall try tc cooiplete the sat and to
send one or two additional boun^ volumes t as you tell
me the only bound one there is #27*

Tocr bad ypu had so much trouble about that
redwood table* I suspect that the painter vouLd have a
grouch if he heard you call him Houch.

It is a relief to know that you took your
wife to Point Reyes by rail instead of goii^ all tha
way afoot.

Don't bother to send us any boughs • all we
want is a handful of n.nhfllliili^ri> i^u^^m j^gt for thi
smell*

Glad the noise ifl the boiler has let up since
you drained the pipe^ We drain them every fall before
leaving. We do this by tumir^ off the supply at the
forks of the pipes alcove the wood-house^ arri then op^a-
ing all the faucets and the two pipe ends that profcrtde

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fran the e«t aide of the house midiray between the
•Id Of the pia«.a «d the kitchen .tep.. These pipe.
I had put in eglMt the plumher'e wishes for the ex-
press purpose of drainiig what water was left below
the level of the spigots both in the hot water system
and the cold .so as to take no diance. in ttie matter of
freeslng In toe case of exceptionally cold weather.

The biggest nuisance, in case jm pull out be-
fore the cold waather Is oyer, is the outside water-
closet, nds has to be flushed an unconscionable num-
ber of times in order to let out all the water in the
pipe. The house proper is comramtiyely simple. But
I hope youVill stay until we arrive.

It tickles us to learn that you fial it some-
thing of a Chora to keep the house supplied with fUel.
If it bothers a big strapping young fellow like you to
B«r enough wood for a little wonum like your wife, pos-
•lUy you may imagine the task I was up against in mj
old age to haul and saw enough to satisfy that wife of
mine who. as TXitch- John once told her, could bum
more wood in a day than any ordinary woman ought to
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the ysrgo of apopleocy a mmbar of timss duTii^ th«
fir«t year or tvo, T finally concluded that it waa
batter policy at vg- tiw» of life to sub-let the job.
Sinse that decision "TbtA" J(Ain aod Martinelli have
had the benefit of the ^eater part of ths exercisa.

Iff wife la in Caiii>ridge vi siting Dorothy
and Henry* Zenaida joins ne in lore to you all.

As ever.

Vac. Arch tf. Gilbert,
La/?xinitas,
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January 11, 1915

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1329-1340 Ibrqdette Bldg.,
Chicago, 111,

Dear Sirs:

VIU you kindly send me a booklet or detailed
Information coneerflj^ your Autoaatlc Tire Inflator?
If 80 yai will greatly oblige.

▼ery truly yours.

?• S« Since wrltiqg tha above the noon mail has ar*
rivedt brinrii^ th9 box of sheila iriiich you were kinl
enoiigh to pack so nicely and which arrired in perfect
condition* Thanka«

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January 11, 1915

Ur. Arthur Gribson.

Dqpt. of AgrlealtnrOt
Ottapa, Canada.

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Can 70Q aend m a duplicate of tba
D^matw noflber of the *Ottava Haturalist*? If ao
I shall ba Iproatly obliged. It containa an article
by Norman Criddle on tha ?alue of nannala and birds
as destroyers of necrioua inaectSt in the course of
nhieh aaidi inq[>ortant inf
habita of atoxnka.

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>rk Botanical Gflrden.
Brwxr Park, N«ir York. City.

0«n you setiil me a copy of klnam* monograph
of tha ^Mlitrfll! tha ganarlc nama of which I ballevi
h» givaa as Jtauoi, inate^ of icfiiaaiaitolflft? I am
told that it appaarad as Part 1 of Tolum* 2», North
imarican Flora, dnripg tha past fall. If you will
sand this with bill for earns I will remit hy return
mail.

Respectfully,

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Dr* ftirfi M. Smltht

u# 8. Bureau of FlahorleB,
Itaahlngtont D, ^«

D«ar Dr. Smith:

Can you sexd ms two eopiaa of Docameot

#797, 'Alaska Flshories and Ihr InflstriM*, 1913,

tfj B. W. Krermann? If so you will gretttly oblig».

Very truly yours.

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OorerBnant.PrintiiK whca

Washington, D.

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Dsar Sir:

I wish to purdiase two copies of ths latest
•Alaska Dictiojianr* publlshsd by ths Gsological
Surtsy (original edition by liu«» Baker^. If you
will kindly inf ora me of the cost I will rmit by
rwtum mall, r * '''

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Uj dear IUsb Hooker:

A month or six weeks ago the
Biological Sunrey moved from its old qpartera to a
new buildir^* While connected with ths Sunrey it
was mj habit, as you know, to spend about half of
each year in the field* During n^ absence it was
the practice of the office to put letters « packages,
and all sorts of odds and ends addressed to me par-
sonally, in a large closet resenred for personal af-
fairs. Owing to the pressure of aocmalated work (m
iny return, it sometimes happened that I never had
time to examine all the things that had been put away
during ray absence in the field. This by way of prelude.

At the time of the aK>Ting * few weeks ago, I
was asked to call for a considerable quantity of por«
sonal material still remaining in the Surrey* This
was packed in boxes and brought to my office* On goli^
over it I have just discovered two letters from you,
written in the fall of 1902, and containii^ photographs
taken duriig our then recent trip to Kii^s River Oan*

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yon and the upper waters of the Kem. Both of these
letters had been opened but were still In the origiml
Mwelopes and were not marked in any way to indicate
*bat they had been answered. If I ever saw them I
hare eooi^letely forgotten the fact and I don't wish
you to think me unappreciatiTe of farors of this sort.

The photographs recall very vividly some of
the incidents of the trip, and soma of thp boautlful
pla0ss in which we casqpad, as for instance Bear Vem
Ueadows* Your photograph of some of the men of the
Kings Riv^r party sitting in a row on a log, is par-
ticularly precious since most of the row have loi^
since gone to theif final rasting places* I cannot

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help noticijqg the difference in Ibiir • the strength
of his features in your picture contrasted with his
feebleness when I last saw him about the middle of UA

October* He was then weak in body and mind and did
not feel able to return to Lagunitas with me to make
a long promised visit*

I appreciate also your kindness in sending
pictures of the San Juan ranch and of the Indian wo-
man Josepha,who proved a rafrher obstinate subject*

I wiah sometime we could have a little re-
union of the surviving members of our Ksweah party*

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that you h«i ,tMl«l ^Icln, ^ I~t,d4

doctor. "X "•• no. . ftm.n«lg«|

nth klBd„t rogart. mi «,,rMl«tl,. *u.^
l<»«-^Uy.4 tta*. for tb. phof^rX ^

^«ry truly yours.

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Dear Sheldon:

Nalaon and I have been bunged up with
aevere colda which have not yet left U8« I have
not been to the lidseiun since I aair you but I am
told that nothing more in the Bear line has come in
of late*

Elizabeth ia in Cambridge visiting Dorothy
and has not yet .entirely recovered from har cold*

Haller is expected here in a few days to
prepare for his trip to Peru* I believe he did not
succeed in killix^ any sheep*

Teste rday I gave Nelson a hasty membrandxm
which he aaid you wanted concerning areas from which
Bi^ Bears are needed* As a matter of fact^ there is
80 little material of this kind in museums that we
really need all the skulls we can get from everywhere*
It is exasperatirg, as well as most hazardoastto attespt
to map the ranges of species on so insufficiani a basis
as we have in the case of th9 Big Bears*

I hope arrangements for your Oallf ornian and
Mexican trip are coming alor^ all right* The trip will

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Daar She Id en:

H-.lscn t^rd I hava t^^n burv:-9d up with
savere colos rnich "^mve not yat left <as. I have
net b:J6in to t -le ii-'-s>3Mjn sirc^ I sa?r ^jyj but I am
tolc? ♦^hat notMv:rr more ;n -ha Bear line hri^ ccnte in

of laid*

Elizaheth iB in Caml:rid>-e yieitinr Dorothy
and haB not yet entirely raccvar^^d fro?a '"-.r ccld*

Hallar ie axjectsd hera in a faw dayc to
prapare f cr hi? trip to Peru* I ' ^lia^e ha did net
succaad in killirv; aiay ehajp*

Yastarday I ga\rj Nalson a '^Asty mamorsndui^.
vhich ha said you s7a»^tad concerning arjiJt' from ?rhica
Bi- Baars ara needed* As a ica^tar oi fact, thara is
so littla rAtarial of ':bls >:nd in niu.saunis that ?fe
raally naad all tha skulls t'^ can gat from avary/rViere*
It is axasp^ratirg, a? •vail a.: most ^'azardoustto attauipt
to map tha rarigas of spacias on .sc insufficient a oasis
as wa have in Vao casa of the Bi;^; Bears*

I hota arrar^ariints for your Oallfornlan and
Mexican trip are ccmir^ alor^ all rie*H. The trip will

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«o«t attractire placo..

^^n aroo^l to dW.^*'-"^^ ^^ ^- to Wa

Wth loTo to you both.

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Jamary 12, 1915

Dear Dr* Stophe.aa:

It is conVanient to have a fair

friandfl whoai'^in tims of pressure om may sidatraek

for a while« by irtiich I maan that it is plaasant to

kwm that ona*s real friends will not taka offanBa

if their lattare do not raoaira raaaonably prcnqpt

attention^ It goes without saying that I was mi^ty

glad to gat both of yoxir interesting letters and was

also happy to racaiva tha littla book on Bret Hartals

country, which country, as ycu sayt is Tery familiar

to ma»

¥a were distrassad to laam that you hava
had to mach iUnass in your fssiily and that llrs« Sta*
phans was so long in racoreringt but trust that you
are all entirely wall by this tima.

Wa had a Wfer% rain storm yesterday bat hara
no snow aid tha wintar thvm f sr has bean an open and, in
tha main, a plaasant ona* Tou can appreciate tharafora
ogr longii^s for Susia, who is taking a long rest at San
Rafael* Hart siprix^ we most not lat any obstaolas
prevent the making of soma of tha trips wa hava so long
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Ilia new. of John Muir's death, ae you say.
W a ahock. th<«gh not a mrprieo. I could not help
f aellng glad that we had sean him. ao recently and that
you had aacurad the photogri^ha - tha Uat erer taken
of hia of couraa. Tery awxy thanks for the clippings
you sent « about hiau I am particnUrly glad to hara
tha account of hia fm»ral. Ha was a good man and it
wiU b« a loQg time before Caiifornia asea hia Xik«.
Only a day or two ago I eame across aatoa photcgrapha
taken by ttaa Marian Hooker of Los Ai^Us on a Sierra
Club outing in 1902. One of these shows Ifcir, Keith,
Oannatt, Lemon and others - nine in all - aitting on
a log. It waa aomethlflg of a shock to note that I an!
QQB other are tha only living onea left of the nine.

HaTe yoi giyen up your San Francisco office
yet? Snn't put^t off too loqg last you may follow
tha footstapi of 410010 of the others.

You ware fortunate to sea that flash of
lightning strike in San Franc! soo* IRiat a stxrprlsa
it mast hava bean to tha Bay City peopla!

Last week I went to tha big auto show in
Nmt York and saw mqra nm cara than I can reimaiber
aha^^« The Remington people hava put on tl^ oarkat

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\k $600 torp^4k-»built little car atid mra about to market
aH 8-cylinder of the T-typa. The Cfhefrrolat p«apla ^tave
put out a handsoina little tourlqg car almilar to thair
4-C7liz)der one brjt smaller, and aellii^ «i the Ford
price of $490 fully aquft^ad. They alao anaaunca a -
roadster of the same model for #I60« The neatest
norelty I sav was the Oirena car, hii vhich there ara
neither clutch nor gears. The gasolAe motor drijaa
an electric generator which qjpaMkaa the car, so that
tha car handlas like an electric* Bftth the llata anft^
'Jsrtar ears ham new models of their friction drivM.
The*28» Nets looks aitractiTe and certalolj has tmst
power as a hill cllinber. Whether or not iV^HBaaat"
noisy with wear I do not Ibiow.

Sorry to learn thai our Lagunitas ji&s^n
made so many and so deep impress ioiw oa you. It waa
•ridently their dosing act for the season, since Irdi
Gilbert who arrived a few days later, wrote me that
although working in the wood and brush a large J^irt of
the time, he did not diseoTer a eii^le Jigger. Their
perlM of activity semns to be frqn sometime in (^tober
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•^knowledgmg.Jacktl^ToungRandm^.. r tl\
found 'Jack Adoik the I«^4.^^^ I hope he

Miopg the I«iiai». squally attn«,tlve.

■re. Iferrlam is in Caafcridxre visiting «
ror me - fine practice.

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With love to your all.

As ever yours.

Alameda. Cali^

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Dear Ur* Sloana:

Thanks for yoara of the 11th inat.,
tranamitting a copr of tbs Jbacial tnatruetiona to
fcumeratoxHt containing lists ot rrnxms of Indian
tribdB and dated April 15« 1910; and the prelimlniry
bulletin on Indiana enbitldd ^Statletice of the Iodine
Population* by Roland Dizon« I am unable to find the
actual date of publication of this bulletin^ If the
records of your office fumicSi this informationt I
should greatly appreciate your kindness if you will
let me know when it appeared^

Thanking you for your courtesy in the matter.

Tery truly yours^

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Ify dear Miss Allan:

Ploasa perdon ay delay in replyli^
to your recent letter enclosing « photogriq^ of a
large Indian basket from the foothlllt of the southern
Sierra. It is not. a Chukehanoy, hut was aside by a
tribe liring farther to the south, possibly in £schom
Talley, but more likely on the Tule Hirer Indian Reser-

▼ation.

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I am not surprised that you are unable to
sell it at the price mentioned, $85, as I should con-
aider this about double what it is worth. Nowadays it
is rery difflailt to sell Indian baskets at anythiig
approaching their real raue. OtrnisetBns unfortunately
seem to hare rery little money, and prlrate collectors
are few in nunber and most of than seem to hare lost
their seal in collectii^.

I regret that you did not speak to m before
leaving Washli^ton. I should have bean glad to show you
my collection and shall be hajpy to do so at any time in
the future when we are both in the city at t^ sans tins.

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If you return bef ot-e the -fiiiddle of April
I hope ya. will let m. kn<^. Al>«,t tl*t time I axpent
to go to California for the summer.

Tour basket photo6rH)h is returned here-
With. It is an unusually la^. .^t other^riee perfectly
typical piece of what is commonly described a. 'Tulai^.
wort. Ko tribe of Indian, properly be«.., th^ „^.
the nane refers to the region in *lch fS^ .^et«. are «de.

▼ery truly joors.

>tt»« S. J.^AUen.

vanp Biscayns,

Coeoanui Grov
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California Tlsh and GBxae Cennlsaionv

San Vranoisco,

California*

Dear Sirs:

Will you kindly seni we the reports of your
Conmission relatiz^ to California game for the yeaim
1913 and 1914? I aaaumo that these contain the etati**
tioe ae to bounties paid on cougar sealps^

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Ifjr dear Dr. Harrison: a«

Pardon ny delay in replying to
yoiar latter of ths 7tta inst*; asking n» to irlte a
letter reooninendiiiils Jfr. Ohilde Frlck for mambarehip
in the Boone end l!frookettClub«

R«oontly ^ attmntion ^8 been called \jj a
o«b*r of th« IzMative C«Bnitt«« to ttat rules ragnrd-
iig proposal! for nMnobarShip^shicli, apart from tbt r«*
qairaments of the constitution to tl» offset tlati eli*
gibles niBt hnrs killod with a rifls at least one adult
nale of each of three species of Jmarioan Iw^e game,
stipulate that candidates met be proposed ani seeonled
in writing by two jg^sif of the Club, The point raised
In aj case was that I, being merely an associate member,
am not priril^ged to nominate or aoeond t>m ncnimtion
of members* I therefore seem to be ruled out in all
cases of this kiol*

I trust you will have no difficulty in findii«
some properly qualified mamber who will be gUd to write
the le:.ter in question.

Hoping to meet you in Philadelphia at the
Wilderness dinner.

With beet wishes.

^' ^52X82. ^v*«'*'i«on, Jr.,
400 Chestnut Street.
Philadelphia, ftu

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Ify dear Mr. On^

In goiqg orer a lot of accumulated
P-P-r. recenUy I have wbO. ssrsra startling dis-
coTeriss, the most st«^l|,^ ui^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^
written nearly • y-r ^, m «»Mi you asked for the
ea«t yesr of my election to the fllub. I may havs .•«
this letter at the time it c«- bat haw no r««aiseti(«
of it. Neither have I been able to find any reoM of
the date of my election to the Club. ^ fjret Hmt Book
hossrar is the one for 190J, from whi<ai it seems safe
to infer that I%ke elected in or prior to 1902.

Regret ting that I oannot ftimlsh the infonm-
tion asksd for and particularly that I should hare
failed to anarer your letter pro^ly

Tory truly yocrs.

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Janiary 20^ 1915

CharlM Scrlbner^s Sonn.

?ifth ATanue at 48ih Siraat.
Haw York Clty^

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Tour letter of DeoMibar 10 in relation to

ft rwim of Roo««?olt*8 end Beller*e *Llfe Hletories
of ifriaen Oeae teiaala* roMhed oe eoon aftar ny re-
turn froa Qalifcnda, einoe vhicfa I hare bean too

vitE Vflrk to reply.
Tocr lotter ia quite elailer to one written
me on the eeoe MbJMi hf your Mr. Burlinevoe on Sept<
bw 8, 19U« a eofy of ay rejly to vhioh ie enelosed

At the tiM of the reoei^ of yo»r letter at
Becenfcer 10 Mr. Oroerenor had not epokan to ne on the
•ubject. A abort tin ego hoverer he men^oned it uA
eald that if I would write a roriew he wouU publish
It in the 'Ratioml Oeograjliie Ih^uloi*.

*r ^eellnge In the owtter are ezpresaed in
my letter of September 17. alwedy referred to. It
the same time if Colonel Rooeerelt and yourselves
feel that you particularly wish sie to write this rw

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In the introducti<m Colonel Roosevelt quotes
a BMonsoript of nine conseming • leculiarity of the
coloration of the little spotted skunk atilflgilft).
If yon eouU sand aw a copy of the signature contain-
Iflg this natter so that I nay fUe it in its proper
plMs, I shall i^preelate tin faror.

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Copy

LagofaitM, Marin Co., OalifomU,
S0pteid>«r 17, 1911.

W. R.

BurlingagB, Isq.,
Charlee Scribner'a Sone,
Hew Tort City.

Dear Sir:

Toar letter of tho 8th inrtai* hm ja«t reacbsd m.

I quite agree with you that 'Life Hl.torie« of Africa
Game Animals' \J Rco«eTelt and Heller is a book of permanent
Bcientif ie Talus, and consequsntlp that it should he re-
Tiered in eome scientific ptiblicatiaw prefewblj Science.
It would be wen also if it couU be rvriOTed in Hatore,
published in JSngland, aXtbonj^ ai this time its sale abroad
could hardly be e»p«»ted to be large. It is a book of
speoial Taloe to sportanwn, particularly to ths class of
big p"— faantera * a class rather widely represented on
both continents*

The editor of Science wkj haTe already arrangod
for Its r«TiOTr« If not • I would auggest Dr. J. A. Allen
or Br. frank M. OhqpBWi, of the American Ifaseom of Satural
Histozy, as suitable roTiewers. Personally, owing to pros*
sure of wort, I ^to up writing reTievs ssTaral years ego«
ex^ should not like to set the precedent of beginning again,
sinee the rressore on me in this direotioa has sometimes
been Tory hard to resist* At the same time I will not

absolutely refuse. Hence :f you fail to find • suitable
reTiewer, vou might call on ma again. I suspect howoTer'
Professor nattell has already arranged the matter*

Vary truly ywrs,

fpiffnad) C. Hart Merriam

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Arthur Oibsom leo. .

" Ott«r». flanadA-

Ify deal? Mr. Oibeon:

■ ^'"^ ""^ *^«wk8 for your klwin=»8s

In sending ms a duplicate copy of the 'Ottawa Naturalist'
containing Mr. Qriddle's recent artiela «d * .,p«^
of th, Ttiele itself* Theee are a Serial help in
enabling me to arrange the subject matter in my file.
so that I can-get at it qaickly when needed.

'In the some connection I would like to aak if
you c6uld without too mooh trouble said m a copy of the
•Ottawa Naturalist' for May. 1911, or a separate of the
article in that nuiifcer by Lawrance Lrnnbe on 'An Arcto-
- thorium f rah the"- Pleiet^ocene of Yukon';

I d*«oi-tlke to beg these things and would
mdcK pl-efer td^y for ffiiem if you would kindly let oe
1ctfo*Hh$ -price*

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January 20, 1915

Ifrs. Mary Auatln,

The National Arts Club,
Gramercy Park,

NafT York City.

Ify dear lira, Ajstln:

Flsaaa pardon my delay in rt^ply-
log to your letter about the Shoahone headdress. Ife-
fortunately I haw not baen able to learn the ralu* <rf
articlea of this kind. I have two rery beautim red
flicker banner, fire or six feet in length, irtUcb I
purchased from Indiana in Calif4>mia for $5. aplaoa.
In case you do not succeed In disposi,^ of It . I ghiai
^ 6i«d to pay a little more than this for it If you
know the loolity where it wm oude.

A good d«a 6f raluAl. lad^*, material. In-
cluding a n«ber of gemlne old baaketa. has been tf.
fared for aal. darl^ the j^ y,^. rUb.^,,^ ^

.0 that they ar. net a.!, to tak. .^^ ,, ^he cp.
portjinltla. of f«rad in tM« ijaa.

«»11 y«a not rlait W«hl,^« i^,,„
^o 1""'' I ,^. .., ^ ^^ ^^^^
«* to ahow yoa r^ coU^rtlon of Indii W<.t..

Vlth beat viahM*

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January 20, 1915

«»• P«t eea«m you klUed four Orl^ly Bear, i Z
Kl«rw« rao-iftn «* *v **»»Ay Bears in the

■*I«n regaon of the upp^r Stlkiaa. Tor *,««. ^

P«t I haTe been eng-red In . 'o** •«» y«ar.

^ . ««««ad in a monoigrarhla ^^i»i^ „^

•«r A^oen Bears and «„ hc^lrg to publish in th.
ZZJT'^ 11«. f ar I have been able to a«.l«

T.mt«y and Ai^j.. ^he ^eat maiorl^ or thes.
»r. Jn^lair., «, that th. number of fully «Juit males
1. Cflivaratlraly ««u. Brfore golr« to press I «
•mimm to — .s maor .kull. ^ po..ible of «i«it
■^M mi fdMlM.

?flr this rwMu I take th. liberty to ask
If yon ar. wUling to lo« m. yow- akulls for a abort
tlM. U so thqr shoold b. carafuUy pack«l,with a
P«i of p^)«r bstvMn th. jmn to pr.T«fc breakage of
toatlKaod amA by MprMs markwi •charge, oollwrt-

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culture, ¥aahir«ton, D. C. I will return them of
course in the same condition as that in ^idk they
reach me, except that if they are not cleaned 1
will have them cleaned before returning.

Tou m«y he interested to knew that there
are two entirely distinct si^eeias of Oriasliee to
the Stikine, one having a reUtiveXy fl«t skull and
normal teeth, the other having a hi^ily ar^ed
skull and unusually large teeth.

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Dear Sir;

Replying to your oircolar letter dated
*BV«ihar 19* 19U, aeking for pcA>lioatlons, would
It'ftt^ thefc ay -aeflMttea haws rertdlly been amu«ed
•o that it will be a aiaoiple isatlwr t% %eid you a nvm-
bar lX~yoa vlll let -m Icaow the aubjeetft ^f^ would like
to pr^MTTO in yoar library. Itj publieatidtt relata
—Inly to aemala ani birds of lorth linsrida« geographie
dlotribatioo* an! Indiam of California 'and Hevada.
Cb heariiig froa you X Aall be glad to send the sepa-
ratoo needed so fer as the sans w* AT&ilablo.

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Dear Professor Srennann:

dontinuouB presBiire of work «
in connsction with the knowledge that your buildii^g
will not be ready for the oases for son» time to cone,
and that you wore already in correspondence with Dr%
Walter Ho\;i^ on the sazne subjectt are my excuses for
not writing earlier about the cases for the Lowe bas-
ket collection presented by Mr* Fitzhugh.

There is really very little to say more than
to reiterate what I said in California, namely, that
Hougjh^s case display in the National Uusaum is the best
I have seen, and that when your new cases are ready I
shall be only too glad to help you. all I can in the
actual arrangement of the baskets*

I have thou^t over this matter ever since I
saw you but it ie hardly worth while to discuss it so
lopg in advance, and the details can hardly be decided
definitely until the baskets themselves have been ex-
amined. If anough tribes are represented to make it
worih wfiirt, I should favor exhibit ir^ the main part
of the collection pranged by trib^y^ at the BBxm time
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This, it BaaoiB to me, would cover the grotmd ^ a way
which has not yet been accomplished by any mutarom and
wcxild result in a display that would be iMtructive as
well as attractive*

I am assuming that you have i^caived from Dr*
Hoti^ the necessary details for the t^asaa* They are
very simple and the interior shalving is inexpeDsivie*
It mi^t be better to ase opaque glass instead of boards
for the shelvir^* This however is a detail that will
coaae later*

Mrs* Merriam is in Cambridge visiting Dorotb^r
and her husband* Zenaida and I are trying to hold the
fort at this end of the line.

Vas delighted to hear a day or two ago that
the Acadeniy has adopted the new constitution* Have had
no news as to the status of work on the museum building
but earnestly trust that it is progressliTg*

With best wishes and aj)ologies for my long

delay in writing* -

Tery truly yours.

Dr* Barton V* Svermann, Director,
Calif* Academy of Sciences,
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January 21, 1915

% dear J. C:

Some time ago I wrote Daggett of the Los
Angel ea Maseum asking the loan of the two Grizzly Bear
skulls we saw in the glass cases when you and I were
there in November, 1913. He sent them a few days ago
and put in with them t»o big Bear skulls (without lower
.r J**") frcin Ranch© la Brea. I was sdmewhat embarrassed
by this as I am not ambitious at present to tackle th»
fossil Bears but, as you know, have been depend irg on
I you for this part of the work. Nevertheless, since the
specimens are here I will make some notes on them before
returning them to him. You may be interested to know
that one is a fem^yPrsua crIt rnrni^iiff tiilftr»ni.<«
apparently typical; the other is a huge domed ^cto.
thflriUfr I have nothing to compare the latter with
but am glad to see the specimen. I will return them
to him in the near future and doubtless you will see

them later if you hive not^had*them.

With best wishes to you all.

As ever yours ,

Professor J. 0. Merriaui^
University.
Berkeley.
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Hon. JVanklin K. Lane.

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I shall be greatly obliged if you will kindly
•end me three copies each of the r.^orU of the savexul
wtional Rtrks for the year 1914.

In case your office has published a leaflet
on the Petrified Forest of the Yellowstone National
Park, I should appreciate a copy of this also.

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January 20, 1915

Dear Arch:

Yours of the 15th arrired this noon, for

which I am properly tharicful.

What you eay about tha plvnibir^ troubles
is qulta exciting. It's lucky for us that out spring
water doesn't affect our internal anatomy like it does
the boiler's and pipesl I have heard of pipes cloggli^
at Lagunitae before, but it was attributed to the dia-
bolical concoction known as "Dutch cleanser*. This
hcwever has not been used in our house, so t^ftk we will
have to thank the Lord for the present condition.

If the pipes are going to clog every three
or four years, the natural inferWe is that they are
not big enou^. Would it not be better to replace
than by a larger sizf, bo far as this can be done with-
out tearing the house all to pieces? It is a sin that
tbt pipes are so hard to get at.

You being an engineer and the plumber beii^
a plumber, the combination should be equal ^o the job,
80 I will ^rratefully turn the whole matter over to you.
and relieve my tired brain of any pressure on tbe sub-'

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*h« hall Closet as vo„ ^"* * ""^^^ ^^or In

•7««t t.»t you ha, ,,,,„ " ' '"y '"n „„ I

•-'-. h. W„ u wort M. " T " " "" ""'

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W kick the roof off f.^ .. >»" "too cibby

Anj^ow, I am mlgfttT ;?lad rt . *

■« mi c.nf««^ ,„ th.GaSu.rr *""• '"^-

^ - P-fotZ, ,,H,^ to foowT'lW """""""•
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,.v rM «,«• ears Have 1)3 01 etrainiiB for
doorkey. althou?^ our ears

.o» aaye p«.^ ^^^^^ ^; ;^ ^^^ ^^^^„^ o..-

..as, .... a„.o. e..c.^»> ------

With love to you dot,xi,«~ ^

,,<«» nf iov in the plumbing 30t).
th^ m-st ititense kind of joy m

As SY9r yours.

Mr. Arch H. GJlhart,
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th. covar for oar litU. ajrlis .

g„<^ .ch«» to conf id. tha .an. to «art.«.ll^

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doorkey. although o.a- ears V.ve b.en BtrainiiTg for

soma day« past*

UTB. Marria^ has not vat returned from Oa-a-

bridge but we ara no^ 9xr3cti«r har by av^ry train.
Ta shall appraciats tha .raons T-an ^'•^a7 a:-riv9.

wiVa lov9 to :;w Votli,and -ishlig you both
tha m-at ir-tonaa kirxl cf joy iii t;i3 ;lvimbi>r job.

As 97^!^ ycTjra,

Sir. Arch If. Gilbart,
Lar'initaa.
- Calif.

p. S. By the TTayi'Tf yon have any 8-a.-ga8"-ion« »« *<>
the cover for ovr little epring '^o^' i'- ^^^'^^ ^^^ *
good scheme to confide the aame to XC^.itiiwxx. - «- -

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ftll*if*°^' Accountant,
*°"^5o»",^n8tltutiai,
Washington, d. <3. '

Dear Mr. Ad«nn*

In ...,rfj„ „. th. .ut«.„t ot r.«lpt. «^ «..

th. .u.»d.r "•" "*« ""-»«• «. WM. Which
I find uiu.. Ha .or accmt 1„ ,„ry particular
«~ft thrt th. dl.tar„«^. r.r th, ,o„th Cf D,c,„
b« .r. .rfttM. ., that th. account do.. „ct cc«r
«» *rt. 3r,«r. to th. pr.c«il„g account th, D,c„.
wr expenses were included.

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Lincoln Hi^sray ABsocaation, „ .,^.

21l55ini8 Savings Bank Building,
Detroit, Mich.

Ify deaf Sir:

Yoar latter of the 5tb instant, fonrardad
from jsj suanar homa at Lagunitas, California, raachad
me day before yesterday. Yesterday I went to the head-
quarters of the A* k. A« in this city and read the ar-
ticle in 'llotor Print* to whidi you referred* It iMide
me hot under the collar to find that anyone would li*
in this wholesale mannsr, particularly since suA per*
fistant falsification 1« bound to result in hardship
to a niiibar of people -who will make the transcontinental
trip next sunmer.

^ I have just written a latter to the aditor of
'Motor Print*, and am anclosing a copy herewith for your
Information.

Replying to your lajilry, I am of c urss en-
tirely willing that you should oake aiy extracts you
see fit from any of my letters.

While on this subject I cannot refrain from
again alluding to the continued misrepresentations pub-

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c«ntl„,^ trip durl,« tta cond^ .,^„ tw «,
y^ ^U^ ^ t™t. ^ ^ oo^TCl^L
•ure to find i„ tjtah and Nevada.

c^^f. 'l-^-^-^i th.t durlr« the past season a
^'^t has bean opened on the Lincoln Hi^way froa
Tooele Valley to the southarn part of Skuil Valley
thus cutti.^ out Iheloi^ and.m wet weather p^^tlcally
ln5«sible northern half of the valley. If f,). i. true
I wish you would send ms a^ lite«ture a^i ^p ,,,,
h«r* be.n published on the «,bject. 8uA a cut-ofs, if
really to sxlstence, would cut out one of the worst'
parts of the road In wet weather.

(tee point en which It seams to me sufficient
esphMl. has not been put. is that the Lincoln Hi^way
route across central Nevada is the CJpast scenic rout.
In the United States, the magnificent desert ranges of
eastern and central Nevada beir^ visible from no other
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B7 the vay, in your oirn artiela in tha last
mnbar of 'imsriean Motorist* did you not distinstly
Isqply that Tellontono Plaiic and the fine forests of
horthwestem Wyoraiqg lie alor« the Linooln Higfasray?
It certainly reads that way to rm.

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January 22 , 1915

Vo£<Ar Print?.

416' Sjmsotf street «

Phlladlanphiat Pa*

Dear Slrt

^^ Teste rday I saor for the first time an article
in *Motor Print* for December, on the transcontinental
automobile roads* in irhidi the Otah-NeTsda section is
tr^ted at soma lex^gQit aifxl the northern or octte by way
of Snowville^ Lacin and Rtnboldt.recomoBnded as far su-
perior to the Lincoln Hi^^nray.

^,.jL: I hare driten my car o?er both routest accom-

panied by my wife and dan^ters* and trarersed the nor-
them route only a^ few months ago« You have been gross-
ly misled as to the relatire merits of the two routes
and I hare na?er in my life read such a tissue of lies
as thoss published in this brief article* Ihetiier your
informant is personally interested in the Qgden roata
or is a victim of outrageous misinf orimtiont I hsTs no
*means of knowilSf but it certainly is a pity for a res-
^ pectsble magasina to deceive its readers in this wa^.

Respectfully.

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January 22, 1915

»•» Qrlaxwai'La.
Jfy d«ar Ifr. B«y«r:

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*-n«i to yoa bytha Biol V "*'"*' •"* --

r^ tha Biological g^^

^Ith ba«t wiahea.

January 22, 1915

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1160 Soathdm Boulanurd.

Bronx. New York City.

% dear Mr. Clark:

Many thanks for youra of yastarday
talliog me that you h«.Te a ana Bear akulla for me from
Lincoln Ulavorth and <Charlea S. King,and possibly
othsrB* I asnost anziooa to see these, aal should ha
greatly obliged if you will aand them as soon as con-
Tenloni. Plaaae ship, chains oolleet^addressed; U. S.
Biological Sinray, Dept. of Agriculture, Wa8MT^on,D. C.

Tou will of course tc^ eadi skull, aai if the
■kull» hare been cleaned please place a pad of folded
papar betarean t>>e jars ao that the teath will net be
injorad in transit.

Tary truly youra.

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January 22, 1915

!>•«* Sir:

J*ok«on, •

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8th. ♦ ^•'^ """^ *^**- '<»• y^-- letter of th.
8th iMt.. encloBli« two co^u, ^f .« . *

Photogr.,* Of , .t^ „„t^^ »■«

With which I a.11 not f •miliar.

"«d Forest of Y.Uoweton. Parte I ^ ..^.^^ J
naa. * A M aandlng by a«na

your m .n''^''' ' " '^"^'^ ^^- ^°- * copy of
your m Albun.which I .ee adr^rtiaad «n V

haad. «T«rii»ad on your lattar-

Vary truly youra,

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January 22 ^ 1915

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Dear Professor Bingham:

Heller haa not thown up yet,
although we hare been eapectli^ him for eeraral daya,
tfelesa he has aet with an accident on the way, he ia
likely to tuvn up at any moment and when he cornea J
will tall bim you want to aee him at New Haren ae
early as practicable.

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January 23, 1915

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Dear Aroth:

The greens have arrived in fine shape, for

iihich nany thanks. They will answer for the remainder
of the season as there is no difficulty in keeping
fhem frsrii, arii the liharal stodc of TM>allularia you
hare went will ftimish all the smalls we need iintil we
set out for tba holy land.

''^ Referring again to the matter of obstructed

piping two additional thoughts have cane to me. ^A*
that the water>back in the range is probably in good
condition, it having been in use only tbree seasons.
If at any time it should need attention I would not
think of a pltxnbar but would take the matter directly
to the tnedrmfactureri, namely, Montague Brothers, on
Market Street opposite the end of Sutter. Two - yoxir
rernark about the inability to heat water suggests
trouble with the heater in the fire place or in the
piping between the fire place and the boiler -not the
raa'^ce , ^ fact the fires in the rar^e have been rela-
tively few and far between, uhlle the fire place has
always furnished a practically inexhaustible supply

<^f -caldlr,^ hot ^t^,,

ancestor 1 ^^^ ^"' ™"'"' '^°« ^^^ ^^^rnal
ancestor ccnveys the glad tidings that he ia h.

*o arrive he.e tc^orrcw. We .hall J .J

to see hixa. "^^^^ ^^

nih love to you both,

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Cochran JPip 6 Wrench Iffg. Co*^
7800 woodlaim Avanus,
" Chicago, 111*

Daar Sire:

Thanks for the two sranll^eizad apeadnuft
wrenches Just recaiTedt amoontirg vith postage to
$2«07« ^

I am enclosing check for $5«20 in pqrwnt
for these and for tfcreejDthers as follora: two
speednut wrenches, one of each size, to he sent to
▼ilbur Thayer, Thayer Garage, San Rafael, California;
one additional mall sise to be sent to me at 1919
Sixteenth Street, Waahii^ton, D. 0«

T^ry truly yourSt

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Jamary 26 » 1915

K. G. J.

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Mr. Mont Q. Jones t ^,^
c-o Editor t Outdoor Liidt
Denvar, Colo.

Mjr dear Sir:

the account of your Bear hunt In the

February numbar of T)utdoor Lifef just receivedt in-
tereats me greatly and emboldmia me to ask if you or
your friends have any Grizzly Bear skulls whidi you
would he willing to loan wa for a short time. For
son« years I have been er^aged in a study of the North
AzQdrican Bears and have nearly ccxsplated a work on the
subject. Contrary to ooimion balleff there sure a num-
ber of species of Griszly Bears in the United States,
Canada, and Alaska, but the number of efpecimens which
have found their way into our ^fusu^ns is so email that
it is difficult at this late day to ascertain the char-
acters and raiiges of the different species.

During the past twenty- thre a. 3rears I have
succeeded in gettii^ together in the United States Na-
tional Musuem about 500 skulls of Big Bears - a number
which woulH S^em to be sufficient^ but unfortunately
the preat majority of these ara of youi^ individuals^
the n^imher of adults being comparatively small.

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8rl«ly .hall, .hieh yc« ar, rtUl^ to loan, j «^1
b. sraatly oM,,«, ,. ,,„ „„ ,,^^^ ,^^^ ^ ^^

y.n, D. n. Pi,„, .ttach a tag to aach .Ml.
.Utlng ^r. It «. MU«1. ™, tha .ax if .„„>,.
*l.o «ndl, „,t, your 0., „^ .„ ,^ ^^„ ,,^^ ^^

l""" °' "" r~'^' "^ o„ the tag.. .0 thar, wlu
•» »« do«M a. to .h« thay ara fr«. I„ e.., th.
.Ml. h.„ not b„„ «!,„.,. I ,111 ,„, ^^^ ^^^^^^

befor. murnlng. If thay h.™ ba«, ol,.„«,. ^^ .

P- Of foldad papar batwaan tha }„ to pr„art braak-

.1 of th, taaa in tran.lt. a» Baara- taath ara axcaad-
Inglj brittl*.

^ory truly youra.

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January 26 , 1915

Mr* W. !• AdaiDS, Accountant «
Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D.

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Dear Vbr. Adazos:

Baginnii^ January Ist and continuipg
until furtbar notice, will you please make out monthly
salary vouchers and checks for Miss Sertrude M. Alien,
stenographer and assistant, at the rate of $1400 per
anram, to be paid from the Harriman fund*

Very truly yours.

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fJamhrldge, Masa.

Dear Sir:

anciosmg ^era^ith tha blank ^r.
« with th. G„at nal™ i^i,.,^ ""*^-* ^°" ""*

^s Plains as vou Vnn* -i

into the Prairies that T '' " ^"^^^^^^

aariaa that no hard and faat li„« ^„„ v

^- v«ry wall a« . vT. ^"^'^ ^^^"^«" ««'-

«ry wall as an arbitrary boundary. Nav.rf 7

certain Plains speciaa ru«h f ^^^^^tnalaaa

l^Bciea push far eaat of th^'a \^y^^
f9w of than,, as you are nf * *

Minnaaota. '""" ^^'^ -«« -a* i^

purpoae,

True ting this llttla mar wni

" map Will answer your

Vary truly youra.

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January 27, 1915

^^- TortWa^ University Dental School.

Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Dr. Babb:

Vernon Bailey tells m that he has just

had a latter from you from the above addresSt in which

yw mentionP^^S^ University Museum contains ten

skulls of Bears t mainly without data«

I do not care to see an7 mora Black Bear skulls
just at present but am very anxiotis to examine as many
Qrizzlies as possible* even if they are not labelled for
locality. If there are any Grizzlier in the collec-
tion I should be greatly obliged if they might be loaned
to 'HO for a short tirm. You can easily distinguish the
skulls of Grizzlies from those of Black Bears, irres-
spwtive of sex and age, by the size of the molar teeth,
pi^icularly the last upper molar, which in the Griz-
slies is always decidedly larger than in the Blacks.

If you find any Grizzlies in the collect ioij,
and will be good enough to send them, pleeuse ship by

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eapresB. .charges collect, addressed: U. S. Biolpgical
Surrey. Dept. of ilgriculture. Waahi^^ton. D. 0.

writing y«r own n«ae and address in the upper left

hand comer.

I did not know before that you had left Los
Angeles. Do you eipect to remain permanently at North-
westeni Tftiirersity?

^snr sincerely yours.

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January 27, 1915

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M« Abbott Frazar do. ,
89 Sudbury St*t

Bostan, Maas*

Dear Sirs:

Pardon rny delay in rap lying to yours of
the 8th inst. The new dunzny skull you sant arrived
in ^ood condition and has been placed in the rug.
The one previously sent was returned to you about
the same tine* As the price of the new one is ^5^
while the old one was $4.50, I am enclosir^ herewith
the 50c due you*

With thanks for your courtesy in the matter.

Very truly yours.

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Oarll«l9 Indian Press.
'*rli8la. Pa. *

Dear Sirs:

toclosed you will find tw«nty.five cant.
for wbich kindly send me 'The Had Man* for Decamber.
1914 and January, 1915.

Very truly yours.

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^mary 28, 1915

»^* "'^t^r ??^tW-I History.

5alani« Uass.

Dear Mr. Woree:

The ekuil of the old male Grizzly from

Califomlfiiv'iich you kirdly loaned ma for study a short
tia>e aeo. ¥»<>▼«• ^ ^® °^ ""^^ interest in spite of the
fact that the under jm which came with It is that of a
Polar Bear. The owlnes attached to the skull and pro-
truding from it an abnormal dietame.are really not \^-
per canlnea at all but lower canines. and were doubtless
wroi^ly placed by the cleaner. The outer pair of in-
ciSfiJCi. also were Jrapsposed. I have taken them out and
replaced them in their proper sockets.

It occurs to ■»• that possibly the lower jaw
which really beloi^^s 'o this Grizzly may he found keeping
company irith a P«>lar Bear sktill in your Museoiu Will
you kindly look at the jaws of yoir Polar Bears to see
if this is the case? The molar tseth of Polar Bears
are exceedingly snatl for the size of the skull, while
those of Grizzlies are very large.

The legend on t'.a skull states that it was

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w. IT ^9 IS stiU alive I -should like

to irrlte him and ask If ha remember, from what part ^
the State the skull came, as it does not .yaite agr^e

wltva any of the specimens in our collection.

Do not imagine t^nat your ifasaum i s in any

way peculiar in suffering from the effects. of the tran..

position of jaws and teelh in skulls retum«i% the

cleaner. All of our lange m«tuas suffer in t*e csam.

wax, and in the ^asa of t-e ^Jational Museum, we hirw to

keep a constant lookout to avoid puttier away skull.

with transposed jaws and taeth.

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January 29, 1915

Dr. H. A, Siftoo,

519 Aator Straet,
llilwaukda, Wie.

Vj dear Sir;

Vary many thanks for yoir courtaoT in
offering to send m yoiir skulls of three adult Gristly
Bears and two Black Be^rs. I am delighted to knar that
you have three adult Grizzlies from the headwaters of
the Stikine. Ihey will be of much interest to me as
they will enable me to make critical cwnparison with "
the few skulls we have previously brought together from
that region.

^B to the BSiJck Bears: I fear I shall not
be able to get at them until next winter an! thsraJTor*
would prefer to borrow them than, rather than retain
them 80 loi^.

Please aand the QrUHi^a by express, chttgei
collsot, sddrsssed: 0. S. Piological Survey. Dept. of
:*£rl8Ulture. Washington, D.^. It would be well tp place
a pad of folded pspef betw-ien the jaws to prevant injury
to the teeth in transit, ae Bears* teeth are very brittle

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If the BkallU hare not been cleaned I will have them
cleaned bef ore returnli«. Haa^e put your own name
on the pacricage or on tags attadied to the alrull« ao
there will be .no queation as to their Identity •

ThanMpg.you for yoar eourttmy in the mtter^

Very truly yours ^ ^

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Jwamry 29, 1915

C. Gerhardt h. no. .

120 East S9th St.,
Wew YoA City.

Dear ^Ira:

On January IS I sent you ny chsck for $2.50
In paymant for a copy of Cuabli^' a • Initials and Pseu-
donym'. The book arrired duly but the receipt failed
to cane. WiU you kindly «end receipt by return nail?

Very truly yours.

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"^mer, Colo.
^««- Col. IfcGuire;

•PP-s a photc^aph'^of'^*''" ''''' '' '•°^^^'- ^^^.
t^ Ie,eM -tatttslT "T"" ""^ ''"^ ^''^'

address^ If V . """^ ^^'' '"^ ^- Hubrick's

"• ^' ^* ^'•"^ the skull hack with >,• r
«^-a a lot Of old boots to see it, ' "°^

^efjr txxj ly yours.

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Pabruary 1, 1915

Urn. H. P. Wilson,

Ify ddar Mrs. Vllf^on:

Than\« for yonr latter tilling ms

about yoor Indian baskata* I have not purohaaad any

baakata for aona tina and am not likaly to unlaaa in

tha caaa of piaeaa of azcaptional intsraat and modarata

priea« I already have nearly a thouaand baaketa from

California, ooaqpriaiqg fair repraaantatiTea of qoat of

tha trlbaa* How manf baaketa have yoa, and do yon knor

tha nnaa of tha tribea to which they beloqg?

If yOQ are intereatad in California baaketa

I Aall be glad to ahov you nj eolldcticn at a^r tinw

whan you are in the ci^«

Vary truly younit

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T ■" Replying to your lettar of

J«nu«y 28. I regret to .^ that I do ««.

^ r!^r " '''^ '^^'"^-^ *^ ^ »«" Alia.

"*,T ^^'' *"" '•*"'"*' ^^ -<Pi-" "Facial
tx^ng «d a .pedal leanlz« ao, I alra«Iy h«.a an

•••l»*«it •Qsagad with «T»clal rafarance to 4t.

I Wa ra^l wHfc ^eat itrtaraat your raoert
•»«llanft .rticU In Harpar*. on -tha wliaf of tha
Tail,*' aanriTflr. and coogratuUta ^you on your Ailit,
td write In a way to hold tha attention of ^tha

R«gratting that I aaa no way «t praaaot by
whidh I irfghk utillsa your anergiaa.

* ▼•ry truly yovura.

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Waat Slda T. ?il. '\ A,
Naw York City.

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Ibr. S. R. Vitrren,

20 W. Cwndllo St. ,
Colorado ^pririga,
Colo.

Boar Mr. Warren:

In going OTor the tublieati

ealvad durii^ 1117 aCbsanca last aaimar, I find in *Rd-
craation* of Juljt 1914 1 an intarastiqg artiela hj
you illustratad with soma photographa which qppaal to
ma with graat forca*

I undaratanl of couraa that tha right of
publicati on of thasa was sold to *Ra«raation* Vat I
am wondari^g if you hava not atill tha right to sail
printa. If ao^ I wish you would aand ma a sat with
bill for aama* I should lika all of tlB photcsrifha
but war a I forced to maka a dioica^ would taka tl«
raar rlaw of tha thraa Mula Daar on pi^ 32. it it
rara that ona aaaa tha direct iva mrtclr^re of this ani*
mal to bettar advantaga* Tha antalqpa en tha aztras
laft (paga 32) has hla rnqp-patch My^i^ttl and if than
of intersmt in corinactlon with tha othaw* Aal ttm

With bast wiahaa.

V«ry truly yoora^

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■ontana,
Dwu* Sir:

■2« Mt recelred I ' ^°"^ '***«' 0^ January

•« P«* th. ,hai ,.cur,>. Ship 1- „„« ™ ^ .

1W+ -.# *_^ , • ^^olorlcal Survey.

I%t. of Agrlcaltutt. Washir^ton. D .- P.^ * .
_!,, V. . ^ «.*'"«# 1'. •„ Payment for It

will V. mrfe about the first Of the nK>nth.
^ ^ No ari«ly Bear eVull. fran t^e Park hare been

raeeira^lfcy the Smithsonian In«M*. ♦*

-p— Tson.an Institution or the National

lf]«eaa for aooe tin*, it •niA».,4^. * ^,-

'• " «•<««*• to the sa^.. iibitp rtwther

they «^ ..at to the Smithsoni^.. the National lin«««,
the Wologicl Surr^ or^to m direct, as th,y 11 ^'
to the mum yUee. na-aely, the National iJus^om.

Veiy truly yours.

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Dear 8«g9 5 . ' : ^_„ «_.

You ware very kind to try to co« Mrs.

Merrlaua to prolog her^a.ee^^t It didnn w«^.

«- «411 ffive yptt all the time you war*
Hcwerer* we will give lY^.., ^ n . . , ,j. ^ ^ ..

W&«a ybu come to Lagunitaa in May. '

With best fieihee. . _

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Mr. W. !• Adams, Accountant,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washingtont D. «•.

Dear Vbr. Adams:

Hersirlth I enclose my eipensa account

for Jantftfy. amountlrg tt $42*21; a bill from W. F.
T^oberts for paper triflBwr, shears and f Jlm^ amounting
to i9.3&; and rental for my office at the Hort'numberlnad
for month of februAry, with January telephone bill, aucunt-
ii€ to $51*95; which I shall be obliged if yon will pay
from the Harriman fund.

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Ify daar ^Bs Allen:

Your l»ttW* ot January 29 >a8

just arrived. I am glad ta 1A«r tVt you and your
frlanl. lfr«. longanecW. will te in Wa8>^ingtai in
March. If y^a «lU phone m at yowr conTenienoe I
sbull ba rBty «iU 'to make an appointmant to tihm
you my ^oUatfbion of Indian bafiketa, in nhich I have
no douH you may find «any pieaas of intarast.

^ary truly your»t^

Miaa Susan J* Allan,
Tha Touriftt^ ^,
Miami t Florida*

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^* Louie Ball,
Sairard.

Alaska.

Daar Sir: -

of them and will ^,«^ . ^ '^ *° ^'^^i^* aU

«.,* T . ' "lener. Marten and Pqi.
But 1 do not now want *o r^^
or i*ole can>.sse.. -*» ^*"e W ekin.

Pleas, ship as before markil .i^

the locality .,.„ .m^. ;. .^ *; -"'-""^ "^^^-^

"""* ""*• "«• •" ««.«„* t^.
Vary truly jrouw.

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Prof. T. D. A. Oockerell,
Boiildfr.

Colorado.

Daar Professor Oockartll:

larly in the year you ware

kind enouf^ to send me an abstract from a letter frem
your brother. This was of so much interest that I have
been passir^ it around anong my friends and I wish to
thank you for your courtesy in sending it. These surely
are troublesome times, and the strain on the paople in-
volved mast be terrible.

Hoping that the end may come sooner than pre-

dicta4, and with test

Tery truly yours.

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Mr. Thomas MurpTw.

Block8biu^/(?alif.

Dear Sir:

Thanhs for y<«r letter of January U. tellii«
me that tha Dobbins Creek on which your Grizzly waa
WUed is the. one in Humboldt County, not the on. in
Plumas Countv. 3* .;».^ w^-w^ -»^

Ve«u aek about the pri-ce for Black Bears. I
will pay fran $1 to $3 each for uUbrok.n s'^lU of
Black Bears, according to aga,, sex. and condition; .^
M eadi far two good skins fit for I4.^aum apecimans.
either black or bropn. aoc-ompani«i by their own s'culls.
A tag should be atfAed to ea«h skull .a^ on 'it should
be wriUen. the eame number that you yut ,^ .^^ ^^ ..^
.0 that I o« t.11 which .kull balo^g. .t. wh^h •icte. '

I wiU ^iT, $5 ^to $8 eadh for t^^m^.^^ <^.
otes. ea^h specimBn cons'i«ting of the ski« ..nd akull of

the s<vM anfjdal. tha «''.>„. <. ,

n«i^ tria 8 .i„B to be prepMr«« so ti»at thay

will ^ve good m..^ 3peoio«u, a«i tagged' .c that t^ ^i,
and Skull Of the sa.a antnal ^x ..,, ,^ ,^ „^^^^

"nseu« 8 '.''T' °' "^ '""'^°"- '^ P-paration of
-useum specimens in anclo^ herewith.

Vei-y truly yours.

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Deer Schulta:

Your let tar of January 2 crossfd mine in

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the mail8« Uine wslb axldreseed to you at Oreert ^^ I

st^pose has been forwarded*

Ae you stated that you would he in Los Angales

only a few days and were then going to San Di^Ot I hesi-
tated to write you at. the Los Armeies addrese^ tninkii^
you might sand me a later address* But nothearii^g from
you I will let this g-o throwvh and trust it will he for-
warded* I have a hook waiting to sjnd you as soon as I
have a sure address*

Sines ray last letter I have read all of your
other bodes and like them very mudi^ and was delimited
to find nothiiTg objeotianAle in any of them* So I
shall bs glad to send copies to some of my yom^ friends.
Your bocks ought to serve a useful and beneficent purpose
in stating the truth as to the kind of people our Indians
really are.

The name of the Holbrock oian who picked you up
after your auto breakdown is Nelson, brother of E. J.

Kelson, one of our leading hatursLlists*

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II. S. !Iational Iftisdum.
Washipgtont D. ';•

Dear Hr. W^ert

Tbur letter of JShuarjr 27 reached me
several da3ft iPi iJnce which I have been too buBy
tt see TToa. I am polpg to PhiUdelphia to-day but
hope to see you Saturday or Monday at the Muaeunu

Tsry truly yours.

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Tehmtgf 4t 1915

Dtar Mr. Lilly:

Last fall I stayed out in California
loqger than •xptctad* On ratiimixc I found thai eplandid
Orissly Baar of younavaiti^g attention* It surely it a
superl) gpeelMfu I have had the skull ricely eleansd
but have not yet had the skin tanned* The trouble is
that the tanners say they cannot relsac the Ain cnou^
to stretch to the sise you went* I thiidt hdrerer that
•4t had b«tt2lr.b« taanad mjwtif and if you agraa with ai
I will hara it dooa hy a man who doae azeallant woric and
ia rery earaftil. The only troubla will ha that it will
not turn out aa hig aa you hopad*

Hara you killad any aiorw Orissliaa ainea I laat
haard from you or do you know who has? And how about
Black Baara? I ahould ba glad to purchasa akulla of
Black and Cinn«BOQ Baara alao.

Thla wintar I hava raoairad aoma intoraatii^
Oriszly a>uUa frcn <laaka and Britiah Coltabia.

. -Do you know whathar or not thara are any '
Grizaly Baara in tha Chuaea Ifoimtaina, aloi^ tba boundary

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I *n mi^ty anxioua to aaa a Srlzaly skull or two

fran that country and from point. i„ Bouthweet Oolo-
rado.

And did you aver hear of anyone who had a
•tall of a Griaay fran tha San Franciaco Mountain re-
gion? TharawaraplentyofGriazliaaonMountKendrick
cloaa by San FraTBi«« Mcmtain whan I was there n««y
y«r. ago. but I an. told that they are axtinct now.

Tery truly youra.

Mr. B. 7. LiUr.

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Arizona.

Ify dear Sir:

At the suggastion of Mr* J*W» Schulti I
am writing you to ask if you know any >mneer« or others
who have aiqr ckulle of Qrizzly Bean from Uexieo, Arlaona,
or any other plaee*. I am anxious to secure as many aa
possible and will pay a good liberal price for the some.
If you knew of any I shall be greatly obliged if you
win write me*

Very trjily yours^

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Mr. Luthor Stover,
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Arizona.

My dear Sir:

A letter just received from Mr* Charles
Pheldon of New York who recently Tiet your son in
Arizona, tails me thst you have recently killed a
Grizzly on Bill Williams Mountain. This interests
me mistily a^ I have Twan tryir^g to gat hold of a
Grizzly from that region for soma yeariB but without
success* I am now trying to complete a book on the
Big Bears of North America and. am very anxious to
sea one or more skulls of Grizzlies, particularly
adult males, from San Francisco Mountain, K^ndrick
Peak, Sitgravas, or Bill Williams, as wa do not know
whether or not the Grizzly of this region is tl^ same
as the ona inhabit ii^ the White Mountains.

I should be greatly obliged therefors
if you will kindly loan me the skull of your Grizzly
to compare with the skulls in our National Museurj.
If you are willing to do thia^ please ship by axpress
charp;e8 collect, and addressTU. ^. Biolo??:ical Survey,

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Mv dear Sir:

A l^irc '''^st rac3iv?d fro.: l!r* Charjee

Sheldon of ^-^ Yoric -^^o rdc jiiti^ '^at 705:dr son ir
Arizona/ t ilia ^ ^htt yc^^ >-78 rscc^tl? killed a
Gritsly cn^BiD FlTi:a.MS \toii>trdn* ThiH Ir^^ar^iji^

Sri:izly ^rc^ that >^ion T v' 3or.j ^^to^s *b»j t;?ri hcnifc

B^r, om or ':^re ^Ir.iilf? or &^'l2alj*fc^ \.»urt:ci;larly.
Bd*jlt iiiled^frcai Pan Vr^ijH vii^co ita:.'.^4ri»'*L ^^ 'i'^k
Pcfak, Siv;^.rdV:^?*, 'or Bill ^illihvi^., ac v: c- rvit Kr.csir

as the one Jnial.ibiiV' v>c VHrii^ M: Mxt^iii:^.

If yon '.all K.irdly ic?j:i -^e t"*^ okull of yo^ir 3. i^-kily
•c -^'^6./^ -1/ .. -v ;i'^?lls in c,^- Uaticnal Mufevii:::.
I: y^^-^iMi wil^'t"-: ^ ^tr ^"^ift^xl^iK^a ship Vy ^/:^ . ;;5s
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D«ipt; of IgrlooUur., Washlr^ton, D. 0. Pleaae
write ygir aan on tha outside of the package
m there wlU 1» no doabt u to its source. If
the skuU has been cleened please place a pad of
paper hetirem the jmn to prerent breakage of tlB
terth In transit. If It has not bean cleaned I
will have It cleaned whan it reaches the Museum.

Was the Bear a mala or a female? I sup-
pose you were not able to wel^ it. On what date
was it killed? Did you notice What was in its
■tooaeh?

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Ifr. 0. 8. Rica,

Talma, lu Mngton.

■sr d««r Sir;

Mmy thank* for your lattar of January
27 iihlch has juat raaehad ma. and for tha ellppii^
you anelosad.

. The infonoatlcn you haw takan tha
trouble to glT9 ma la of rary great lateraat. I am

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Beara in your regioiu I hare heard \»ton of aheep
piling u$ ahan attacked Igr a Bear but did not knov
timt tha laaaaa from thi. aourca ware so great. I
wppo*, moat of the Ba«r. are bl«,k. with now la
than a Sritclf.

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I moat eameatly hope you will aucoa^l

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Dear CovlXle:

Thanks for yoqrs of the 5th insU pro-
visionally idsiitifyirg the plant photograph sont
you on January 29«as apparently Galium bcraala^
This surprises ma very much as I nevar saw a Qaliimi
which bore any resemblance to this plants

I will transmit your message to Ifr. Laek
in the hojpe that he may think it worth while to avail
himself of your suggestion to deposit photographs and
plants photppTfijphed in the National Herbari^jcru

Herewith I am sendir^g you another plant
photppraph by the same man* The plant /^ovs raric and
tall and has a cow-parsnip-ish look* You naed not re-
turn this one bit Leek would like to know what it is.
Tt\ like the other, carne frafl the Jadcson Hole country
in Teeming*

Very truly yours»

Mr. Frederick V. Coville,

U. S^ Dept. of Agriculture,
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Ify daar Sir:

Some time ago you sent Oolondl McGuire
editor of 'Outdoor Life, at Denver, a jhotograph oT '
a huge bear elmU. an illuetrati on which he pibllahed
in the December number of the ma^zine, with the in-
formation that it wa^ found on your Indian caay on
Lakina River.

Thie interests rr^e grsatly as I have been
study iner the Alaska bears for nearly twenty-fivo
yeara and ha?e got torsther in our National ftiseum
a series of nearly five hundred akullf of Gri«alie«
and bic: Brown Bears of Alaska.

I em wondering if you saved this skull, and if
so if you would be rilling to loan or sell it to n».
I should be glad to pay from $25 to $35 for it.ac-
cording to condition. If you send it please ship by
express, charges collect, Idddrdss: U. S. Biological
Survey, Dept. of Agriculture, Waehir^ton, D. 0,

Very truly yours.

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Mr. James L. Olaric,

1160-62 Soutbarn Bou1«y"^»
Bronx, New York Oity.

Ify dear Mr. Clark:

Vary memy "ttianka for eending the

box of Tsear skulls. Blacks and Grizzlies. They ar-
rived this momir^ and are of nrich interest to tne,
particularly the bip mala Grizzly brouplit hade by
Lincoln Bllsworth frm Telegrapli Oreek region.

Thankir^ yoy fcr your trouble in the

matter.

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Mr. Francis Kerraoda,

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Victoria, B. n.

Dear Mr. Karmode:

For fully a yaar I hava bann tryii^
to get-niy couraga up to a eufficiantly bold plana to
ask you if you would ba good enough to sand ma again
the Bear skulls which you kindly loaned me several
yaars ago. At that time cur knowledge of the Griz-
zlies of British r^oljmbia was in a state of chaos^
and while the skulls in your Museum enabled ma to
raaka soma progress, nevertheless I did not by any
means naster the situation. It is only during the
past year th^ enowh adult skulls have come to hand
to enable ma to work: out the characters of the various
species, and even now much remains to be Ijarned. I
feel very strongly that if I am privileged to study
your specimens ae;ain in connection with those we now
have in our National Muaaum. the result will be a
great advance in our knoirledge of the animals.

While disliking exceedir^ly to ask you
to send ^m the same material a second time, I feel

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trouble.

If your Museum is willing to do this,

please ship the specimens as bef ore, marked charges

collect, and address: U* S. Biological Survey, Dept.

of Agriculture, Washington, D. 0.

In case you have secured any €ulditional
Oriwdy skrills since I saw the collection last, I .
should appreciate the favor if they were included
in the lot* Also^if not too much trouble^ could you
loan me your Wolf skulls from Vancouver Island?

In packing please put a pad of folded news-
papan or somethii^g of the sort, between the jaws to
prevent damage to ths teeth in transit - the teeth
of large carnivores, particularly Bears, bairg ex-
ceedingly brittle*

With kindest regards to Mrs. Kermode and

yourself*

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437 fifth AT«nue,
Ifaw York City.

Ify dear Sir: i

Tour letter of January 27 addressed to me

at my mammr home at LacTmitas, ttarin County, Calif.,
has just come to hand, t am glad to knw that you are
interested la>the historical and natural history sides
of trips afield, lly oim life work has baan largely
alor« slnilar line*, although I hare had more to do
with the technical side than would fit into your in-
terests. During ny two transcontinental automohils
trips froD this city to California Z «%s able to make
rather full notes on t>>e chmges ia the dominant faa-
turea of T^gg^mtion and in the naiimala and birds all
the way acrossa There is no llsdt to the enjoyment
one ma^ derire from observation of thl^ sort, if the
traveler is fortunate enouj^ to knoir iim vsrloua species
encoontereda

The pqper you r^w ttton the fauna and
flora of western WMrjUnd by g. A. Jleoble and myself.

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With beat wishes.

Tery truly yours.

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Dear Colonel McGuire:

Tery many thtnlcB for your praopt-

M.. in r.5>lylT« to my question a. to Hubrick's address. -
I am writing to him at McCarthy by this mil and have a
mall hope that ha brou^t the akull home with hjm.

Thanks for copy of your rarised draft of 'An
Act for the Protection of Bears'. It strikes me as ex-
ceUant for most of the states. In California and a few
other states however, the limit on Black Bears is unneces-
aarUy stringent. On the coast rapges ^f jjorthwest Cali-
fornia there are several men who have kiUed in recent
years more than one hui^red Black Bears apiece and even
in t>» Sierra region it if not unusual for a sinple hunter
to kiU a d02en in the early fall or winter before they
dan uti -*Bd »ti^ *h» ^«<^» *^^® ■*> abundant as to be
a nuisance on account of the numbers of pigs and sheep

which they kill.

]ty the way, in connection with the destruction
of stock by Bears, concarning which we had a little oor-
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that in the ¥snatchee National Forest in the northern
part of t^^ Cascade Range in Waevipgton. a number of
sheep were killed directly, and several hurrlred indi-
rectly, by Bears during the past year. You of course
know that when a Bear attacks a band of sheep, the sheep
pile up and Smother one anothar. When this happens in
a caiyon or against a steep wall, the nunbe^ "killed at
one time sometimes amounts to two hundred or even tlree
hundred. '"-^"'^ — r-

You hav9~nBde a splendid stand for the pre-
servation of the Bear tribe and I hope the legislatures
of th^ sevsaral states will do their part in enactirg the
legislation you suss^'^*

With bdst wishes,

Tery truly yours.

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Fort JonoSt

SisklyoD Co.t
Calif.

Dear Sir:

Thanks for the bear skull irtiich arrived tiro
or three dajrs ago« Being a badly damaged speeiman^ as
you knoiTt it is not worth more than $1.50t which amount
I am enclosir^ herewith. In case you secure any skulls
in the future, x^^^^^^^^y those of adult males, I
shall be glad to purchase the same*

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'Jirator Katural Historv
Peabody Musoum,
Salem, Ifaas.

Ify dear Mr. Morae:

TharuB for your letter of t'^ 2nd
lust, and for the two pcdar bear ekull. which arrived
thie morafag. One of them. a. you suimleed. bed the
jaw which belongs to the California grizzly ekull pre-
Tiously sent, and the polar bear j«r whioh came with
t^e Grizzly exactly fits the big polar s'^ai just in.
-This dears ^ the matter and wiU enable me to get
soo» new photo^^ showing the California grizzly
with his on jaw and with the teeth pr^erly placed.

I m obliged also for your kindness in try-
ing to get into cornranlcation with t,he Potter family,

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c-o Oharlee Scrlbnar's Sotb

Fifth Avenue at 48tn St.,
' ■ Ne» York City.

Deer lb*. BarlingBune:

. - Replying to your letter of the

5th inet., would say that I will undertake to write
for the ^lational Geogr«pMc Ifagasine* a brief reyie
of 'the Rooeeyelt-H^Uer book on ^rican (gum animal
and Bhall be glad to acoejit your offer of a copy of
th« book.

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Minneapolis, Hirm.

Dear Sirs:

-Thanks for yair catalogue, juet, received.
pXron it I should be ^lad to puTc^ee the folloiriT«:

#150 Fremont's •MerDoir's* ,18iB7 $1.50

#116 Bunnell's :♦ Discovery of the l.OO

J Yoeemite 1860

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the Wild Tribes' of the^ Pacific States', 1874. is the
first of his series of five vaumss -entitled 'Native
Races of the Pacific C6sst*. Ihe number of jraKes. 797,
coincides with thos'? of the first volume.

▼ery trcrly yours.

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Sajrvice on tha subject of wolves in Calif omia*

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Rangers in the Sierra have maintained that real wolves,
as distinguished from coyotes, have he^n killed in the
mountains during the past year or two* But in irpita
of offering high prices for skins and skullfl|Or for
skulls without ekinst I have thus far failed absolute-
ly to securs a single specimen. In other words, up to
the present tinie there is no positive evidence known
to ^ proving the presence of big wolves in the state.
Have you any recent information on the subject?

Is there any record in your office^ or infor*
mat ion from which such raeord could be made, of the num-
ber of she^ killed directly or indirectly by bears on
the various National Forests during the year 1914? By
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It 18 «n,it„g how oaijr good paoplo keap on
..ylng that bear. In our day UU no ,to<* of an, ii^.
r think a faw fact, on tha .ubjaot. .uch as ^ght U
•>»«. for tha ya«r 1914. wonU ha« a good affact.

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For 80018 time past I have bean

threatening to write you, partly to ackncirledge your
interesting latter of Bacembar 9 from Yosemitet partly
to say a word about the * Science* review by Sumner of
your admirable paper on the ^Ifaunmala and Birds of the
Lower Colorado Valley* , and partly to ask you to loan
me another grizzly skull* To begin with the latter,
I should very much like to cooqpare with our specimens
your female grizzly !l^706, about four years old, from
YffllowBtona National Park, and shall be greatly obliged
if you will kindly loan it to me«

Referrii^ bo Simner's review in 'Science* of
January 6;^ Is it not illuminating to get a new point of
view on all our lines of work} For instanea, is it not
delightful to read his ofoidid admiaaion that the facta
of Irhat he calla the life zona conception, are by their
very natura "scarcely conmunicabla to most bideifrists*?
And is it not interesting to folloar his line of thought
when he says:

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T" ^ ?«J^ain colored «[?a,U«^ ^"^ '•^call to
^rica, the boundaria. «<^«??V°° a map of North
chosen quite arb?tSlly°^ ^'^^ ""^^ *« have 5^

He mim mige with equal emphasle that to.

oenind m my own worir t «>. u

J^ work, I wo^i ,„j^ ^jjj_^ ^ raiolirfar.

*i,. Of °T'"^" '"• °° "'^"^ ™»^ ^ -fi^-^"

I ,«nd,r If <t ,ouId „,t ,, j„.i^i, ^^
7 "'•'°«— t with ,our Irtr^ ^ ^,^ ,

Tinese from the fund at rny diatoaal .rvi i. ,. ,
, «8J08al, and shonld be very

glad to do 80 if audi an arra«ram«r,f »« v
relaf«» + ,, '^^rangement wiy be made. This

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Tou will ftpprecUte nay netdt whan I ttll you

that in niy filiiK systam the sam© papar ie needed in
three diff=>rent places - und«r autbora, species, and

regions*

With best wirfies and kindest regards to Krs.

arlnnell and yoursalf* ^

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Tery truly yours^^

Dr.

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Maseum of Tartabratd Zoology,
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Dsar Sir;

Acting on your latter of the 2nd inat.
I ha.e ^e up a jadcage of ^ separate, relati^
to the saveral subject. n«„tionad. Kxis .in go to
you by exprasa prepaid tomorrow.

In looking over the list of separates "
arallabla for distribution by the Scrijps Institu-
tlon. I flM the followl,^. wbld. I should be gl«,
to reealTs: .

*Z Mdwen. (J. p. Pecullarltias of tlB Call-

f omia cllmata
#11 Rltter. W. i. j^rther notes on the habits

of Autodax lugubris

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Ifr. Jamas Sinqpson,
Banff. ^
Alberta.

Ify dear Sir;

Soma time ago I wrote you askiig if you

could obtain aiw skulls of grizaly bears, and you re-
plied that you might secure some later in the season.
Did you succeed in this? If you have any grizzly
skills on hand or know anyone who has, I should be
very glad to pay rather hi^ prices for them.

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Mr. Arthur H. Bannon,

Portsmouth,
Ohio.

Ify dear Sir:

Tou have been very patient to let me keep
your griz»ly n« bo long. The trouble ia that the
first duOTiy skull which was made for it . turned out
too small so that we had to have another one made«
This took some time^and the taxidermist has been pre -
terrAturally slow in fixing up the mouth. However ^
the job has been well done, I think, and I trust will
please you. I am returning the rug to you by express
prepaid and hope that it will reach you safely.

The bear is the darkest grizzly I have seen
from an3rwhere in Alaska except the Kenai paninsula,
and I appreciate your courtesy in lettir^ me have it
for examination, and also in allowing m to keep for
our National Museum what is left of the original skull.

If you are ever in Wasbirgton between No-
vember and May, I hope you will give me a chance to
show you oor collections in the National l&iseum*

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Ify dear Dr. Newcomfco:

Yovr UbtdT ef the 4th !i?^t«

has just arrived, accompanied by T^^r' interesting -
paper on the-Plf istccene Baches' ^ .ncloeing
photograjiha of the bison horn core, fer ail of

irhich I am obliged. .

Remins of half a dozen species of fossil

bisons have b«.ai fouad in various localities from
Alaska to TPlorSd^L. including several localities in
California. But I am not families- with the details
of the distribution of this genus. I a-n therefore
sending copies of part of yo^or Ibtter to Proft8»«r
D. P. Hay and to Dr. John C. Merricam. palaeontdo-
gial of the University of California at Berkeley.
Dcubtless you will hear from one or both of them

in the nwor future.

The best general work on the fossil tBanraal

fauna o** North Awifloa was jufcllshed a little over a
year «go hy the Macraillan Coinp any. It is entitled
•A Historv of Land Manraalfl in the Wasbam HamiBphere

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by William B. Scott.

Professor Hay has published a special paper
on the •fatin<Jt Bisons of North America* of uhich he
will probably send you a copy.

With best wishes.

Very truly yours.

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Dr. Charles ?. Newcombe,
136. Dallas Road.

Victoria. B. C

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Ur. Mont ff. Jonas .
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Wyoming.

Dear Sir:

Tour letter of the second inBt% is at hand*

I regret that you hai^ no flkulls of grizzliee on hand
but hope you will be aVla to get hold of one or more

during the coming spring*

The mount iner of skulls in rugs or trophiaa

of bears iB an antiquated piece of barbarism* The
teeth of bears t as you of course knoir, are extremely
brittle, and begin to go to pieces within a year or
two* Besides, bear srulls are heavy and contain a lot
of animal inatter which, unlasB thoroi^ghly counteracted
by poison, ie likaly in ti^e to injure the hide* It is
ftir better to use dumny skulls such as those made by
U« Abbott Prazar of Boston. These have bone teeth

which do not cradt.

Replyirvr to your question as to where you
can get infonrnticm on the habits of bears, their
food, manner of living, and so on, would say that
two books covering this ground have b3 3n published

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Of the., bo*. „, ,„^„ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^h
Tin© Tvious species will «rrui»- •

9ngag9d.

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February U, 19x5

B«ar Mr- Stons:

«a.e yaar. i«o Br. Arttar Brore

i. „» m th. ThiWlpbU *c-«..y. It i« » »«•-
„<ai, tro«l *ull. K 1 r»«b«- corr.eUy h. c^l
it a cIn™»on. I am «xl«. to ... It .€^ «- '"l-
t, ^.atly obllg.d If you could lo«. it to n>. fcr •

yoar MuBe\m?

^ith best wiahas.
- • Tery truly yourst

Hr. Witmar Stone. Q^^«r.i*A«

Academy of Natural Scaancait
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'our i,»„ of January 35 o_ „>„,. ,

5ur».y to th« n«r buUdlar anri tk , , ,- ""S""

conditio „, »v . "•^tl,^ ■ch«,tlc

'^^-'^ ^^'^ t?i9 specimens.
-^ . WW.sopy to «. P. ,.,. «„„,,^ ^^^ ^

"oth of you ,,^t ^ ,„t,^,^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^

7«- T«" '*« t. th. car^lTora of Hanoho la Br.a 1„
Of t a. y» ha» .„ band .h,„ „ „t„r„ to CaitomU

in the spr irg^

^Ith I079 to you ani ycura.

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fticlosad ia a copy of a letter
4uBt received from Br. 0. F. Newccnibe of
B. C. , relating to a f ragmdnt of the horn
bison fran Tictoria, i»hich I thwght ml^t
Interest to you.

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UnivdTBity of California Prets^
Berkeley t Calif*

Dear Sirs:

The last nunber pf the • Condor ^ just re*
ceivedt 8tat#8 that you have some unbound cmd un^
stitched copies of Cooper's •Ornithology of Call-
fomia\ which you offer for sale at $2.50 each.
I should like to purchase two copie« and enclose
herewith mj chedc for $5% in payment. Please send
one copy to me at Lagunitas, Marin Co. ^ Calif., and
the other to ths above address*

Respect fully t

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February 12, 1915

Dear Dr. Penrose:

fro^fT, . , ^' *^° ^^^ii^ of gri^^ly bear,

from the Zoological Garden whirl, ^.,
toV^n- ' -V- " ^-'''^ y°'^ ^ere kind enoiagh

to loan ^. arrived prc^^tly -^ -.re ' of n«ch Intar.^
^3 one fron South Fozt of WHHa^on Pl.er Is a
adult male of DrBua «>.« v, ^°^

-^ -caly. I will retun, the shells a. .oon as I

rr! '" "^^'^ ''" PHotc^aphed. wMch will be In
a few days.

cUIlr PU««, th.t ,ou w, ,0 ^, „, ^, 3^^^^^

you «, th, .pU^M prog«.. y.„ ha,, ^ i„ thl.
work. -

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th. dl„,.r you ^„ Br. ,.,.t,. J ^„j^^ ^^^

hln «d th. rttar. at your ha„. .o« than I ca„T.„

P. J^. Would you mind Ar^^^4

year In whlc& Beaver DlS^i?fd?V ^^"^^ ^^"^^^ the

* died? You told me but I have

foi^;otten.

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Jlf. Arthur Gibson,

Dept. of Agriculture. _- ^ j

% dear llr. Gibson:

A few days ago jToti w^^re kind

enoi^ to send ^e a separate of the *Ar6totheriuai^
paper for which I asked* I know you must have gone
to some trouble to find this^and I greatly appreciate
your courtesy in the matter*

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February 12, 1915

Mr. Franlc'Bond, Chief Clerk.
General Land Office,

Washington, D. 0.

Dear Vr. Bond:

Can you send aie one copy each of the
last land office vok^b oftha states of WasJiir^tcn,
Oregon, Idaho and Coloradot If oo you will greatly
oblige.

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Mr. Remington Kallo^.

Uhlvereity of KanBaa,
lAwrsncs, Kansas*

Ify dear tfr. Kellogg:

Of the seventeen bear skulls
loaned me by your Museum a coi^^le of months ago. I
am returning fifteen by express prepaid. These are
ten Blacks, three Polar Bears, all male, oountir^ thi
sawed off muzzle as one (ntnbers 1975. 1976 and 1985
respectivelj^ and two Grizzlies, both of the latter
young.

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, in its fourth year. This skull

18 spait lemrthwise but has excellent unworn teeth.
The other Grizzly # 1980. is in its thini year and ^s
lost all the teeth except the canines. These are so
big as to . indicate that the animal was a your« male

of JJrmim b^nll

Of the Black Bear., #1971 and #1^ are Ursus
luiflfilUft. mala and female respectively. IVo fran Min-
^jota. #1979 and #1986 (the latter a cub of second y.ar}
«^« Jraut (WlffrlriMHa. The remaining six Black Bears
("f i«;* from Dotsoro and one old uad^ fran Las Vegas #1978)

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or Intargrades between amblveari. and

I have kept out to return later two 8kall«
an Old Grizzly from Colorado, and an old male l^sus
«:25l5u. #1974 from Las Vegae. New Mexico, which 7
~t to have photogn^-ed. These photc^aphs would
have been made long «go but for the chaos in the
photograpMc branch of the Biological Survey result-
lug from the recant change in quarters.

I am very much obliged to the Jiiaeum f cr
its courtesy in letting me have the skull, for study.

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Tou wore very good to send me »uch a
fine lot of photographs to look over in addition to
the ten prints made for mu The latter I have re-
tained and the others I am returning to you hereirith.

Pour of the prints you madis for me are a
little dull in comparison with those of the same sub-
ject in yair series^ I have tharefore p\3t them in a
sararate envelope, askipg you to duplicate t>iem on
contraaty paper so that the white^ areas will shew up
better*

Out of your big batch I have picked fcrty-
seven mora of T^ich I would like duplicate prints simi-
lar to yoir own, if you will kindly make than at your
ccuronience* Use whatever paper will give best results,
even if it adds a little to the price*

Did you ever gat in touch with our Government
Botanist. F. Y. Coville, with respect to the possible
acquisition of a set of your botanical photographs for
the National Herbarium?

Mr*

With many thanks*

^x £• barren.

20 WestTJaramillo St. .

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Very truly yourK

February 12, 1925

Mr. R. Bruce. Manager.

^™9rican AufcmobUe jIr«o«
437 Pif th Avanue^''^"* '
New York Oily,

De-^r Mr. Bruce?

S«at l„t,r..t. ^ .hau hope that thl. r»t. wlu
t» connsotwl np to form . li,* <„ ,v. ,

"" ^'- I » too Old to .^ „ „,, ^„^

>t bat««> ^ two W. . ,..M^t„, ,. ,^
nitas. California.

With beet wiehea.

Very truly yours.

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Dear Arch: rravanted m

Pressure cf other matters has prevanM

.rc w.iti^ f cr 30^ days ,a,t. That gc^ epi^od.
0, ,^s Shoo, up the f ou^ation. of our WasU.t^

^w it rearly made the roof leak. We hope
house so that it rearly ^^^^.

that era this you have .ucceeded m pac.f^t _
who lives near *e bridge at Sbafter. ^^^ ^^ ^^

Congratulations on having? a^"

, J v»j Yni^ father real me

T,art of y^ur letter in which you

/ .u t,.+ .«+*' service in or near the
except a le*K in the hot wat*'

"''^^** ^^ riins? Worn the middle of Janu-

How are tf»'

^ to th. .iddl.^^ ^^^--y ^^ ^"' '° '^ -"^ ^^'""'
JIth. aft.-' '^ich cood arri,^ weather is likely to begin

most a^ c^y. ^ «^^ i« S^^^^ ^"" ""' ''^ "^^ "^'"^ '°
gat throu£h witho-jA much more.

We hope that your wife has recovered from the .

cold fran wiioh she was safCacing.

Yo'or fathdr is looking sijlendi<il|i don*t re-

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"«b.r to ^, „„ h,, i„,,,^ ^^^^^^_ ^^ .^ ^^^_^

«U1^ to .aliy forth at nl^t In ca.o th, bait 1.

whist of 'five hundrad- . oth.r*i.. . ., •

otnenrisa "notMi^ Join;".

Has IbrtlmUl begun .a-k yet? ' "

to. 00. fro. ..Id, If It i s ^^ pi,„, ^^y ^^

Pl»W and r,l,b,r.o ^»rs,U for yow savaral trlj.
to S«, ta„:„. ,„ ,„„„^^j^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ I

enou^, let oa know and T .^n

and I will ramit the balance.

^ith love to you both.

As ever jours.

Mr.

Arch M. Gilbert,

Marin Co..
Calif.

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Cashier t

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Dear Sir:

I enclose herewith my check for $75* to

be credited to my a^count<

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c-o Cbwrle* Scrlbnsr'B Song.
Fifth kretoM at 48th St. ,
Nmr York Oity.

D»ar Ur. Burlir^ams:

The signature containing raj
latter on the *Vanlehlx« Pover of the Little Spotted
SkmAui* has arriTed,and also a copy of 'Life Histories
of African Ch«ie AninUs* • for which I am ouch ofbligacU
I will sat to work on the review as soon aa poaeibla*

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^r dear Sir:

Do you *aFpen to know of any hunter or
ethar per«m who l,a. any .kuU. of grisaly tears fran
the nortVe„ •^««l.. lnT«Kdr^t«« or Briti* OoIuniWa^
If so J rt,c«ld b» ^•atly.<*lig^ if you would kindly
••nd ma hla adAraaa^

^jm^ryiTog to ii<npl9U a aanc«r^h on ^the
Wg bean bat aai finding great difficulty in sacurir«
•not** skulls to enable -«. to ,^^^^.,^, ^^ ^
•everal speeiea.

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Mr. SaniMl Hill,

IfalTersity dub,
Sd&Uld, Wash.

Deiar Sir:

Do you heppen "to knor of ai^ hunter or
other parson w^o htm any tkvllm of griwly boars fron
ths northern Caseadss in Vashii^ton -r Brttish Coltnibd
If 80 I ffccold be greatly obliged it you would '<indly
sen) v» his address*

I a HI trying to co*l«ts a nionograjih on the
big bears but vn flrdl'^ great difficulty in aecurli^
enoufih aVull* to ehtK* "•• to vuf the rai^s of the
soTaraJ species.

▼•ry troly jours.

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Ifr. Th<fc«i8 Irons,
Silrer City!

New Mexico.

Ify doEu* Sir:

"^ ^^ "»" •V »»>nt,r or oa«. p,„„
*. h„ ^ .Ml. Of grltdT W. <r .tt ft.„ K»
««leo or *H.™t If « t *ui t, ^„,, ,„
if you rtll Hndly .It, „ M. „„. ^ ^^^,„_

Tery truly yours.

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Alwloa.

Dasr Sir:

Tour le.ter dated January 30 arrlred last
week and tha black bear you vere kind enough to sent
haa just cane to band. It is ^n axceUent epecl»w»
wMch vtt are glad to hare.

I hopa you will succeed In obtainl:^ one o
■ore grizaly skulls for ua.

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6Z6 Hannspin Avdnuii
MinneapoliSt Minn.

Dear Sirs:

Referring to your letter of the lltJi inct*.
I encloBe herewith my check for $3*50 in payment for
the #116 Bunnell's •Yosemite* (not yet received) and
the copy of Fremont's •Memoirs* you offer for $2*50,
Kindly add the Fremont to the bill and serid receipt*

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The Sanf ord Mrrcm Fabric Co. ,
63 Leonard Street.
New York Ci{y.

My dear Mr. Kir^:

Many thanks for your letter of
the 13th and for the four teat skulls from the Kenal
which cane a few days earlier. Of these, two are
black bears - an old one and a young cub; the other
tiro which we will call grizzlies are of considarable
interest. One is fully adult, the other a youi« cub.
•Thsy were joo^ marked in any way and 1 shall be greatly
obliged if you will kindly send me the data for t-nem,
namely, locality, sex and date of killing.

Very ?aany thanks for your kind offer to try
to secure additional spcimens. Our collection is not
■0 rich but that we are always glad to receive additional
material. ¥e shall always welconw skulls, aither with
or without skins, particularly those of adults from
any locality, especially from Knik 'rm arri the Susitna-
Matanuska region.

Thankine: vou for this imrortflnf. #*rinfy.4v,,+ ^.^v.

to oix collection*

''^ery truly yours.

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Tour r^talpg 2e fi«»rlcana Part III)

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Feb. 19, 1915.

The CadmuB Book Shop
150 West M Strjet
New York City.

Dear Sirs:

If not sold, pleas© send ma from your Catalog 29th§

foUowina -

380. California. Purple, 1881.

1898. Chittenden 3 Tola, 1902
197i; ?lilev«4». Pah-5a»*i«fc^, 1866. .
And froiryour'Catalog 31:31:
110. Warden. 1819.

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Powner*8 Book Store.
37 Horth Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Sirs:

If not sold, please send ma from your recent Catalog
tKes-folloirii^:

No. 49. California. Deck and Port, Colton

54. California. 1849-1913. Woolley-

57. California, Life in. 1846.

61. California. Ilarryat*8 col. plates". 1855.

62. California. ForbM, Personal Reminiscences. 1882.
818. rremont. Memoir by "Bigeloir. New York, 1856.

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Mr. ^# v.. Leekt
Jackson^
Wyo*

Dear Sir:

The Slk Album arrivad duiy« for vhidi I am
obii£^« Tour photographs certainly are mofit in«
tereatirg and attract ive« I am obliged also for ths
other photographs sent. The tree showing the scars
where bears have bitten it is oost interesting, and
I wish the photograph shoved it more clearly. At hew
great a hei^t from the ground was this biting dons?
Anythinp; that you know about this habit will be of
interest to me.

The cow-ptur snip shown in one of the other
photofi^raphs seene to he Har^^^n^jfl ]fyY^^T^ This is an
edibls species and I tm glad to know that bears feed
on its growing stalks. It balon^s to a group of plants «
many of which are poisonous.

Tofir photo of the beaver dam with a lot of
lodge pole pines stacked up against it assuses ^m greatly*

Do you bdLieve that this work was dona by the bearers f?

How c uld they handle such bg poleSt emeoiaJly sines

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Our he«i fforemment botanist t-Jnk. that

the emll px^t phot^rqjh sent i„ your yreTiou.
,l«tWr i. ftUilM hnrfliIjLbut.caMOt,be ^, u^

the Photqgr^ It doe. not,lopk J.p „,rUk. thl.
:^'*^?»- >^-..^OTlHe eug^ete that in th» cm. of
l)lant phonographs yc?u wnd with, tbs jhotograph a
Pl»ee of the plant to ths National Hfj-bM-i^ f <r
4dentlfication and pe«aanirtt tiHr^. ^^ wdhld
gl^« lOtt ,^_auth,«itic identification ^'ck-'ln^our
plant photographs. ?o?« OtW w^ tern phot ographa re
M-9 now dping this. In case you a»re to raake the
same arranremant yea ^p^jouM address Mr. F. VOo-
^llla, Botsnist.J. ^ Dept...pf igriculture. Wash-
Ington, D. ♦?, . , ,

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•aid thi»;^'ra« greatly plaasad ai tM« Inforay^i

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* h«ra baan aliU to brirjg togathar froa Montana aid
•djacant parts of ilbarU, British ColuAla, Idaho
and Hyoadng. ' If thara ara aigr grissltas amorK thasa
thay would ba of graat assistanea to ma just at this
tii», I hqpa tvaraf era that you wiU ba wlllli^ to
taka tha trooMa to pask and ship tham as aar^ as
. conyaniarTt. Pleaaa tia-a tag to aadb akuU. giTii«>
tha locality vhara klllad as naar as you k«w It. and
also if you knov It, tha sax, nazna of huntar and 19.
proxlaats dats. Tha locality is by far tha most ia-

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portant it«n of infomatitfiu YlsM^ wnf asdi akuU
aaparately and put a pad of foldad navspapar bat««aa
tha jam to pravant braakaga of tha taath in transit,
as bears* taath ara faarfuUy brlttls. Sard by a^ass.
charsBo collect, narked U. ?. Bloloeieal Surrsy, Dept..

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1 J3>pratflata it «opa thrti I c^n tell yon and It will
*a mtarlaji '.attrtcti on tfi.fy^9ff|ca^whic^. already
adornsd by yout eoyotf , baajcat jroqiaa, end ^alalia.
*. I wish I- could asa your great picture ahow
. jMxt month. It wculd be a %r.nU J .,fcpaBt, - It la good
■^ tcintM that you aacur^. sudi a fine, lot of material.

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hf kbotxt a ihouaand'ipi^a diraet frool ttM Indiana
1^0 jadS ti&amii I a^hovoTar anromoosly Intaraatad in
tha aubjoet of Indian bafikaixy aol bara aoan axii atidlad
moat of tha collections In t^ia country* I efaoold ba
Tary glad of tbo privll^g^ of aaoii^ ICr. Lander* a«

The price you tasnticn^ to«000 is cartainly
rery hi^ unleae Uia collection is of unusual slaa aol
quaJiby. Tou haw baan o^e^ly i^bin^^n^d&oaaTar as
to the relatlTa price 'of basketa at tha praaent tiiai
in contraat with the price twelve years ago* Tou say
you have been informed that it haa advanced %t leMi
15G^ on thd contrary prices for baskets have dad inad
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iiiii y^'Std; y^^ >e iii i Totltlon io obtain
of Alaelra bsarc for m. I am engegM m

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to obtain w Twny skulls a« poselblot T^rt
thB big ba«r«. both gri««li«» *^* brewi, froa all
parts of AU8ica« and em praparad to pay libaral
pricaa for tha aaina. Th* Riakokwim ragion i • «»
from whi* iw ha-a ooJy a aingla a«U aad I Aanl*
ba gl«l to aaoara as rmnj as poeaibla both frcm tha
trppar anl lowar rdaohae of tha rirar. la fapt aa
many ekulla as poaaibla ara doairad so long aa aach
one is labelad for tha locality whara it was killad
and. if known, t>ia 99X and approxiaata data alao.

For skulls of black bdar» I pay fro« $1 t(
$S aadi,anl for akulls of ?rrl»«lia8 and broim ba«r»
from $3 to $20 aach, according to sax, aga vrd eaa^
ditioo.

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alddrafji:^ S^ Jfiolofdoil Surtray, Dopt. of Agric:
Vashington, D. 0. and put your oan nan in tha u]
laft hfiiid eornar. i fm t^ ara ancloead herav:

Hopit« to haar fr^'^fiisC ^1^"^ '''

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in sanding » a copy of your ocet interest iqg artieli
cm tha habits of Pftregrat.HTn fuM^ifailr I raad it
tirhan it first aTT^arad in tba ^twa Nataraliet* and
ouda a mataorandTia to writa yoa for a saptrata bat
hara baan &o occoqpied that I had not yat rot to it«

I raad also vith ondi intarast a raeaitt

artiela by Ur. Vonmn Oriddla « giTiqg aon ioQicrtant
facts on tha food habits of tha big skunks of your
ragion*

Irarythipg rslating to North Aaioriean aHi»
mis is of acuta intaraat to ma and such datailad 6b»
sanratlons aa you ha^ !iisda on tha borroog^s and food
habits of tha bandad pockat isonsa ara as rara aa^ thay
ara igqportantt and tharafora all tbd mora to ba priaai
I hopa you will faror nia wf th anything yon oiqr publi(
in ftitun coneaminK anr of our msDrmls. In ^atum

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wctt^ in ill]iatratf?i{? mtural hlfitory rabjaets^

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that ^liototra]fca da hot tfioa parapaetiTa* hanea it la
daairabla in tha eaaa of cartein akulla to acpplaflMat
tha photQgrqpha by outlina draariqga >ATing Juat anoogh
ahading to brliv^ out th^ form of tha bonaa*

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la to lawn Juat a»iara,, a Mnimqm of fi^fiivft will brim

out tha form. It ia nacaaiHgMt«-l^»aife Jdw a^ara

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vPp-,«C»hi4*lg* vTowed^.t* *ni;»ta?!i^., it sasas .to jbb.

£. ^.»i||iQae|i ph«|bjqgr»ih« ojT ^^lU: c«nd . UoAr «o te to
lightan up plaeaa that ara too dadi aod 3:)laelr«n plaoaa
Jhftt aro: tooi l^j^ ud ,tJ90 t$ jbUBtft tha ttaekgroond

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on jaeecunt of ita graat hairfit anteriorly, fhara did
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nitaa aarly in !fay t,o rabdn tetit VcMTii^Mr/ abd shall
bf mofrtx1iie;|)y' to^ aara ^oa and Vrs. Qlaaaon at joar eon-
TanidDoa*

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. ; Hof9rrlT« to tbi^w«^«ra limit of

4sir-^ift,:t^Uc^,of thi^,*tt«;t^ d^"

. ". " it«^ra«- Tocid 8t*t«JV»t.along,th« rrat« of the

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IhloftFaeifid B«ilro«L the sceolM oro|»e«« tht

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, r tafda woBtsilr into Ot^

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W dMur Br* Veveoote:

Uany tbanlra for yotir 1» t?i«r
of thm Mtk Iwt^ Jtrrb recaf riL I am rlad to know
t^it yoa ara in ccfWaponaaiiaa.irttKiftp* Jr (?itliarrla

•aity of (kll fornix* in'^raf:ard fc

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MilB. Ha la ai rary teraftsl zMi and ona of o«a^ hi^aat
vnthoritiaa on foaall wet

Thanka for what you tkll" %a U>oat t'he idan-

, . But tw oe«t nmn iti jTOdr lattar i« that you

Iiopa to mmf^ wm in flalifornia in thaicrouraa of tha yaa

I axpaet to ba at niy California hdi^ from early Uay

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until Koraaftar and afaall hopa for tha plaaaura of OMii^
you thaaa at yoor conranianoa* Iff addraaa for tha aaaacn
will ba Lagxmitaa^ Harin Oa^t Oalifomia.

Vith baat wialM.

Tary trnly youra^

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Daar Ur. Bond:

Terjr mfojj thanks f cr your courtMj in

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:to .J5t;.: 'irj- ♦•r ?B

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land OffiM omM of washii^tont Oragbii,
nd Colorado, askod for in rojr rocant lottor* Thay

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bean and will eontinoo to ba of aucn asaiatanea

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ecmsanUd to do tb* job and^t* akre«dtf Mguo It.
Mtiqz* awns flikf lW%|lt^li^ Jl lots of tniM*.

I •my yoa th« opportwiitjPTmr «$«[
aitf'tfiakiH tti«^il <)tt]VMb ^^^^ Mcar* a n
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Thank jou for sandiqg 1110 Kia Bar-

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>^ft«r worif tid hw retTirnod Her draarli^ by reglBterad
■All.' Her dr«vln^« e^ conet ar« senmrhat crude but
with practice she micht learn to do this sort of work
""'" wall^^lii #!ich caaa I ccald from t line to tli» gl^
bar amployasnU

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In yoar lie^ #64 you adTertisa #476 - Tofvn-
send* 9 *Narrmti?« of a JcKinwy acroM th8 Rodcy Uoan-
tains to the Colorado Riraz'. Fhil«d*tp}iia, 1899, at
$6« If not alraady eqld I ehoald ^a glad to purdiaaa

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I bavtt joai foiB ov«r Uds-'la oMOMtifia
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ajTpreciata a copy of your reeent Report on Antomo-
Wlea for. the Year 1914, extracts frotu which I have

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Dear Wr.' Warren:

Your letter of the 128t inet* amd the
box of . prints hare ju.8t cone to hand, for which please
accept my hast thanks. This is a srlendid lot of photo-
grq)lw and I ar. deli^^Tted to have thenu It isisurpris.
ii^g that the baayar -would work so close to human habi-
.tat ions a^^ in the c^ifle of yonr ?lanitou photographs*

The head of the black-footed ferret is interest-
Ing anyhow^ asptfoflU^y sines it /tives the correct form
for a front t^ew.

In oase you. send your flower albu ns to Covillo
I shall o£ course take ?idvantage of the opportunity to
see theffl^aif I know they will be full of interest.

A voucher and check for the aaiounb of these
•photographs wi il be sant you about fie first of the
month frcm ray special fund in the Smitrhsonian Institu-

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Mr. iS. H. Warren.

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Mjr de«ur Professor Maarrln:

The weather map for Sunday,
February 21. reached me this noon, four days late.
Thqr usually come on Wednasday.

I some times visit places where the daily
weather map is to be seen, as at the U Street Post
Office, the tfodc on tne Avm.e.and one or two other

pUces. Nearly always the m«^8 are one or two days
late.

I think you will uf^ree with me that weather
maps are not ordinarily consulted for the purpose of
•tudylng ancient history, but to civ, the observer an

Jnklinp as to what is coming. Of course there are dif-
ficulties In the way of getting this inf onnation beforo
the public as pre«5ily as would be desirable. At the

.«ne time I have lor« had the feell,^ that you ml^t not

te fully aware of the usual tardlnoBf in the dellrery and

posting of the aap8.

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Ho* Oskota.

Iff dear Sir:

Vernon Bftlley of ifce Biological Surrey

infonni me t>tat yoa are contaoplatlng a hunting trip
;iii Alaaka during the coedng spring with the special
tfbjeet of laying in a stock of hears. Ncsr I am in-
terested in Al»kR hears t particulariy their staills.
In fact for some years past I hate he« engaged in the
preparation of a monograph on these antnmls.

We have in tto National Museum the largest
series of bear skulls in the world, includir«g a con-
stferab^ejBumber from Alaska. Most of these however
are Imnatinre or females, ec that the nuofber of adult
males is fiar too small to admit of rmapj^ios the ranges
of the various species.

Brofm hecrs, as distinguished from grlsslies,
cvmo down the coast to the Jimean regi on, hut appear to
Y>0 scarce as 1M have not succeeded in ohtaining % single
adult male. Grisslles occur t^rou^out the interlttf of
British ColuBpibia and Alaska, and reach the coast tti

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TaVutat Bay « outlward. In certain places , as on Ad-
miralty Island, bothijrtJwn beara and grizzlies occur.
But the species are different from those cm. the mainland.
Amoing coastal loealitles from irhich sicvlls are especially
needed for study, are "tjfei Canal {heth «lde«)^ Olaciar
Bay and tl» coast thanes nor«iward to the Alsek Delta,
iacltKiipg Litaya Bay (the most ii^ortant locality from
▼>tich we have nothing).

Pardon ray liherty in writiqg yoa at such
length hut it occurred to ne that if you were goix^ Jon
a hear hoiit in this general region, y^i mi^t ohtain
material of the higheat scientific value, and if you
are willlqg to loan me yoizr skulls ftar ezaaination I
should be very greatly obliged*

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Dear Sire:

Yoar price list of- gams haculs and so on
received to-day, f«r which -I am obll^.

I note that yoit off er bear atoll la, perfect,
at frcm $3 to $6 aacB^. If you have on hmd any skulls
of grlzsly bears frcxn knovn localities, I ahould be
glad to fcftlce then all, provided you attach a ti^ to
each one stating where it iras killed. If you happen
to know the sex and year, please state these also.

In shipping skulls it is important to put a
pad of folded paper between the jaws to prevent breakage
Dt teeth in Jransit, as bears* teeth are eztreosly brittle
Pte'<ages should be sent by express, marked charges collect.
They shoild be addressed: U. ?. Biolorical Sarrey, DepW
of Agriculture, VasMngtont D, f?.

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From time to time durirg the past
year when articles ^f yoars hare appeared in 'The
Anthropologiat* and elsewhere, I have determined to
write and ask if you have separates for distribution*
I should prise as many of your minor papers as you may
have copies to spare* Your larger papers on the Hupa
and Kato, published by the University of California, I
already have*

So you have undertaken the editorship of 'The
Ant>^ropolopist' , or rather it has been thrust upon you!
You have my syiopathy*

With best wishes*

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American Uus. of Natural History,
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Mr. 'Jharlee S. King,

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Ify dear Mr. Ki-ng:

Tsry mary than'ce for ycur letter of
tne 20th Inet., fumlshijTg: tha needed infonnation
about the bears. I air particularly deligbited to knoir
that the two grizzlies you got on the Kenai are mother
and cub. The mother is tha first good adult female of
this STecies. tfTlBB ft]f?Tfiri<!rfl,>^, which hae con« to our
^^tional «.«aT« collection. It therefore is of much
more than u.ual*. interest and will always be hi^y
prfeed. We have several adult males of t'le ^a.« sye.
cies. They are much larger than the female but th» dls-
proportion Is -^ch less thaii usual In the big gri^rfla.
^0- instance. Ur^ ^p^,.,^^ ,,^ ,^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^

arn Califo„.ia in which t'^ ^u, ^qual ^Is^^H^ ,„
alza. have females which are remarkably small. The fa*
n^le of alawrfi^ is the lax^st female kno^,. and if

r am not mistaken your s!o>ll u +i>« «„ ,

jr ur B<ati 13 the very largest of all.

I ahould be very glad to .e, your frlerd. ?ir.

O. ?. K.

Johnson, when he comes to Washlr^ton. He had better
call me up at my office " phone North 3280.

Are you going to publish an account of your
hunt? If not I should b^ mighty glad of any facts of
Interest concerning the killli^ and actioris of this
grizzly mother and her cub. Did you obtain any in-
formtion ae to their food? Did you look into the »*<m-
ach of the old one?

With ronewod tii»^«- ''^ 7°^ 'alued contri-
bution to o»- v;oi lection.

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Seattle t Waalu

Dear Sir:

Mr. 0. H. p. laFarge of your city writes

me that you have on hand ecme e'cullfl of grizzly
hears from the Cascades or British Oolnnbia« I am
anxious to purchase as many flkulls of grizzlies as I
can get hold of, particularly adults, from all parts
of the Northirest, and am willing to jpay good prices

for the same*

I should be greatly obliged therefore if

you will kindly ship by express, charges collect,
such skulls as you have on hand« The box should be
addressed: U. S. Biolgoical Survey, Dept* of Agricul-
ture, Washin^ion^ D. C. lach s'oill rtiould be tagged
with the locality where it was killed and, if known^
the sex and approximate date* lach should be earsfully
wrapped, and a pad of folded paper should be placed
betwejen the jaws to prevent breakage of the teeth in
transit, as b^ars* teeth are extremely brittle.

Very truly yours ^

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"'*• V^« P« UParee.

The Bank for Savlne-s.
Seattle, Waah.

Ify dear Mr. L«iF?rg8 :

"Very meny thanks fcr year letter
of Pebrvary 23. telling me about th« eri«l,. owxa.
belonging to D. <\ Bryant, taxadamlet. I mn writlig
hia by this mall and snail be mighty glad if I can
ptarchase his b Tills.

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Dear Heller:

Owing to ay advanced age and general stu-
pidity,! completely foi«ot to give you Roosevelt', let-
ter which I had putin W Packet on purpose to hand to
^ou. Hc»^«*, T r«nambered it soon after you had left
and took it up to U73 Harvard Street and gave it to
the man of the hwuM^who said he would hand it to you
on your return ae he knew you were coming hack to tv»

house before going to the train.

It was good to sae you a^in and to know

that you are setting out for such an interesting region
urrier what appear to be such agreeable and promising aus'

pices

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My daar Ifr. Shoamaker:

3Jore than a month ago I recaived

a copy of your nair book 'Black Fcrast Souvenirs'. which
you wara kind anoiigh to sand ma. Its pradaceMor in-
tareeted ma so nttch that I wantad to read this ona ba-
f oi^ •-kna.ladping It. This I have now accanplishod in
M snatches of tima and have foond mch of interest in
tha tales. Pome of tham, particularly those in the first
part of tha book, ware narrated by people unfaniliar with
the Indian's viewpoint, but on t^^a whole they doabtlasB
represent t-ie present views of the oldest settlers res-
pectinvr thd incidents to -Bhich thay refer. ?oti8 of them
are mighty intarastii^ and all certainly ware f-, 3 record,
and you hetve done a good piec^ af work in yreB3r7lTig: thoiu

. You epaak of the skull cf an elk which w^ohn
Decker nailed to his woodshed* This -emboldens ii3 to ask
if this okull or any jart of it ia likely to be extant
at the present time* It is a la^nentabl^ fact that no
skull of the elk of t^->e east-^m United States from oither
Pennsylvajnia or New York has been rresen^ed in any rnua^un

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Philadelphia, bit whetli^r or not a conr lete skull was
entombed in the mount, I do not know. Skulls, no matter
how in^erfect, of elk. panther, anl 7^01 ves, from Penn-
sylvania, are desiderata at the present tirae, and if in
axistence 6houldl>e eecured for one of oar mussums.

ary truly yours.

Hr. Henry V, Shoemaker,
71 Broadway,

New York City,

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Dear i^chultz:

ThsmlcB for your letter from Greer. I aai
sorry you and Mrs. Schulta ware ill on the coast. An
glad to knov that year colds haire disapxeared eince
your return to the dry country.

I congratulate you on having finished another
Blackfeet story, *i|>auk\ and shall be glad to read the
sEone when it is out. I balieve your stories will hasrs
larrer salas as time goes on and people get to undemtand
that they furnish good wholesone literatt:re for young
people - not to aiantion some who have passed the young
stacre. By this Tiail I wn sending you the only collection
of Indian stories I have so far published, althoufch I have
collected enougji others to rnake a cot^ila of additional
voluTies.

It is news to m that your son Hart has dSveloped
Into an artist. He mat be do in? rood work or Thaldon would
not buy hie; pictures. I shall ba glad to take a lock at
them aftar Sheldon's return to New York.

Yea, I am going to the coast rather early this

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season, and am going by rail -as I left my car out there
last fall. The next trip I make in the car however I
expect to go your way. as I have already been ever both
branches of the overland trail throu^ Utah and Nevada
and would like to try northern Arizona for a change.

My! what a memory you have to recall that
turtle episode in the Idirondacks wTien wa were botli boys.

Of course I shcaUd Ilka to sae that grizdy
Bkiill of yours even if it lacks the lowar ij^r .and some
of the teeth. If you will kindly wrap it up aM «eni
it along I shall be greatly 4:>blig9d* Piaase attach «i
tag to it» stating where and approximately ^hsn it wcui
killed^

¥iah you success in your tuirkey hunt.

?jry truly yours^

IXr. J. T. '^^t^hultz^

OreeXt

Apache Oo«^

•Arizona^

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25 West '12nd Street,
New York City*

Dear Sirs:

Thanks for yo^or letter dated February 24, and
for tb» package of publications which arrived yesterday.
Of these I am returning from Cat* 28 #470, Tyson* s 'Geo-
logy and Topography of California', $4*50; and #536 Tana-
mint* , $1.00. I am retainlnrr from the same catalogue
#93 Sutter^ -75; #122 Wood's 'History of aameda County'.
$3. 50 amd from Cat* 27 Wilkea 'Western America', $8*50,
amounting in all to $14*25^ a check for which will be
sent you from the Smithsonian Instituticm in a feir dajrs*

The catalogue entry #536 on Panamint Indians
1b misleading, cailir^ for twenty-six pieces. There are
in reality only two articles, one of four pares by Butcher^
the ot^er a longer paper by ^. ?• Coville, which has been
chopped lip and pasted on a number of slips*

Thanks for the additional catalogues sent. I
5hall be very glad to go over tham aa soon as I find ti^ie*

lery truly yours

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The Bibliopole,
1204 Broadw3,y,

New York City*

Bear Sirs:

l^iajiks for yours of February 27* Books cmd
receipt curr ived all ri^t.

I have no special list of desiderata but am
interested in darly exploration and travel, and in pub-
lications on Indians of California, Nevada and Utah*

Respectfully,

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6Z6 Hennepin Avenue,
Minneapolis t Minn.

Dear Sirs:

On February 16 I sent you Day check for $3.50
in p^ymant for Fremont's •Memoirs* arxi Bunnell's 'Yose-
mite*, and ask«d you to send receipt. The books hare
Cttne, but no receipt. Inasmuch as I am rnaklrsg these
purchases fran a special fund in which the receipts are
necessary as vouchers. I will be obliged if you will
kindly fonrard same.

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▼ashitigton, v'» '<•

Dear Mr. Mans:

Herewith I enclose my expanBe accofunt

for February, amoonting to $89.82, and also the fol-
lowing bill* which I should be obliged if you will

kindly pcy 'w^ *^^ Harriman Fund*

Tery truly your«.

kiAr9WU Paper Co. - Tvo 4-drarar latter files

• ■ • • Paper

X. R. Warren • 6 doz. photo^aphe of animala
Hudaon Book Co.- Books
Office rent and telej^one

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Hist MMrgaret L. Cromll,
207 Church RomL

Ardmoro, ronn.

}fy daar Ittss Orovell:

Thanks for yotir letter of the

•eecid insi. , and accan^sajiD^ pliotogr«|)hs •nd cata-
logue ot Ur. Lenleri' basket Election. I have just
looked over the Bsme with anch Interest and am retum-
ii^ hoth tha photograjphs and the catalogue to you here-

witk by regifltardd msiil*

Thdra are a numbar of modam baskatv and fraika

In the lott but on tha whola they ara evidently a fine
lot of good bistata of fair age« ' i vary considaraybla
nirabar of the* «na miaidentifiad as to tribe, and soma of
them aa to ato^. For instance « in one photograph the
upper four baaketa are labeled Yptait, while as a matter
of fact there is not a Yakut amongat theiOp And moat of
tlia baaketa labalad Pa^^ta ware made by other tribea*

Amoi^ baaket collectora tha word IHila^ra corerv
a moltituda of-«ina. The aama is true in ^laaa photo^

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piles to a regiott of rather indefinite boundaries, oc-
cupied by a nuAber of widely different tribes belii^i^
to different lingxistle stocks.

I don't know that 'you care to have ma point
out errors in the catalpgue relatli^g to tribal affinities,
but some of these are so conspicuous that th^ should ^ '
corrected. For instance, the first two entires on the
top of page two give Tularj

loi^lng to the so-called Ifeguelumnan family. This family,
i^ose proper name.by the way. is Mewok. does not extend
far enough south to enter the Tulare? country, much less
the FCarn country.

The third entry gives Talon tribe as a mam-
ber of the Jsjcim femilyl There is no such tribe as T-
jon, but the name, like Tulare, applies to an area in-
habited by reBBants of a number of very different tribes.
The faiily to whi^ it is her* refarTed.is located several
hundred miles farther north.

The sixth entry op pegs two «ais for a Paiata
tribe in Nevada. No Indians of this tribe ia Stevada aver

made any such baskets as those photc^rsphed tttidivr ^Jhis
nams.

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On ths eame pag« ♦ tri\>e aeeignat^d 'Eel
River' is accredited to'Viaml County* Oalifornia.
There is no such eounty In Oalifomia, but the Indians
llvii« alot« lei Ri»«r belong to savera tribeg in Hum-

boldt and Mendocino counties.

Again, on the sane page, is antered MarJDoaa
tribe of Maripoaan family. Thera is no such trib«,b\it
there is a Mariposa Creek,and the so-called Mariposan
family is now called Yokut. Hear the bottom of the same
page Ifanzanita is giren as a tribal naiae under Shoahonaan
and Yuman fatdliea'airi is referred to Tule River. This
is a most ratraordinsry combination as the Shoshonean
atdTtnian families reiaresartt widely different linguistic
stocks and neither of tham belong to thi "Rile River coun-
4. 1^. «.tr» WanvanifjL IB. I siTBDose. intencttA to refer

to a arfflill village on the Colorado deeeH.

Mono.

There is no such tribe, but the term is in uss amonK ^»«-
ket collectors as applied to two different bodies of In-
dians, cm livit€ on or near North Pork of San Joaquin
River, the <rt^er living near Mono Lak«,at the east has* .

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^ -ha (Jrsat Daeart; and so on.

The catacu, contain, no praoi.a data whatavar
m raapsct to tt. Oallf«.,a b...,t.. ,. » „., ^^
w^^ra t.a individual pi,„. „„ „,,^,^, ^^ ^ ^

"»bar Of „I».ble baakaf m tha lot a«a it j. » ^,,,

. r"y « ^^•y »ra ^ot .cc-p„iad b, prscl.. ,nfor»tion
as to their origin, i

Kr. Lenders has baen misinformed as to the pro-
portionate i^her Of ^ibes .eprasanted in his collection.
There ar. »ore tribes in Calif cnna unrepresented than
repraaanted in the collection.

I shall be irK>et interested to ^o over the col-
lection with Mr. Lender. ^ ^n ^,,, ^^ ^ ^^^ ^

I find It practicable to go to Philadelphia.

If you or Mr. Landers ara aver in Washington
_I should be delighted to show you my collection.

Thanking you for loaning me tha catalogue
and photographs. In which I have found mudi of lnt*«.t.

Very truly yours.

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March »♦ 1^1^

Urd.er.ity of California Pre.e.

Dear Sir«: _ ,.v,ack for $&•

wor two copie. of Ooopar'* • ornithology
in payment for two cop ^ ^^^^

« i-*««,^ft' One copy na« 3^"*- ^"'^

♦ VrtftWB are male from a s^aciaj.
,fy purchaaee of books are ^^^^^^

.^^ w the Sodthsonian Institution.

bursott oy o w . . 4^ r^rciBr to be re-

„ec,.«r, for » to f.n>i.h r,ca,jt. .n «rd,r

greatlv obliged. ^ ^
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A postal received from the National
Geographic Society announces, fh^t you are to give us
another lecture on Pridajr of this week. This is good
nei78«

You will not haxre much time between the end
of your afternoon talk and the beginnirg of your even-
Iqg talk, nevertheless you will have to take a bite
somewhere and if you will do this inf oraally with us,
we should be mighty glad to see you. I iriU catch
you at the afternoon lecture if I do not hear from
you before.

Hastily yoxa*s.

Mr. Roy '7. Andrews,

American Ifciseum of Natural Historv.
New York Oity;

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March S. 1915

Daar Mr. Potter:

It is good news that

Mre. Potter 1b to he hero this week.
It irlU give me mach pleasure to go
with her to see the nation^ collec-
tion*. It tni^t «»^« ^«^ ^^^ ^' '

you giTe her my telephone numhers.

namely. North 7619, house; North
3280. office at the Northumherland.
In case she is interested in Indian
t,asket. I should be most happy to Ao»
her Of collection.

With best wishes.

Very truly yours,

Mr. Wilson Potter,
136 So. 17th St.,
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Bang*

Tou have be« .o ^nerou. with your
.ep^t- that I hata to as. you for ar^ mora. Never-
thai.- in eoi^ o.ar yen. publication, in connactioa
,m tha daacription. of new spacia. in ory n,a^ f Ua

I find that I naad t^o copiaa each, if you can etiU

gl«re tbam. of tha following:

1*^ SSSS ?'f ??SSSfiJlloiSa and tha ccasi

^^ "^ofolor^J^^ 1898. (to. Nat.)
lift ofWala oJ,5?MlS'Biy. Lairador. 1899

?£*•• SSJ^SSit. f ?Sn 8?Sh?S'Labrador .1900
Thrae new Rd«en^» i^ot^^ ^^ Waatam No. km

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DO not bother about thea^ If digging tham up

will put you to n«ch trouble, a. I know y«. are alway. over-
whaW wit> work. If there are iiy of ny paper, of which
you would like .aparatas I can now a»aily pii* th«i out.

. ., . *.— * ♦<«* 4« rmr life the* are arfingad con-

veniently.

With beat wiaha.

Very truly J^vrtt

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Dear Sir:

ReplyitE to your latter of the 6th inst. ,

would state that the difficulties in the way of
li^tirg ny library satisfactorily by the indirect
method have prored so eraat that I have not yet found
anyone w^no eoald scdve the probl**. Tha difficulty
i. that both i»*llB and ceiling are dark - a sort of

yellowish olive green.

My eyes are peculiarly sansitive to direct

lie-ht. hence I have been hoping to find sooe mean* of
lighting the rocm without the glare of visible lamps.

Yery truly yours.

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March 10, 1915

Deiar Mr. Kingt

Your letter of the 2nd Inst, ani the

manuscript describing your K^nai hunt, reached ins
prcnrptly and have proved far .more interestir^ thaii
you could ha^» foretold. Ycur accounts of the feeding
habits of the big bear are a positive contribution to
the kno«led09 of the aniqial*s habits, and I am very
glad of the privilege of quoting parts of your account
in .ny forthcoming work. Tou differ from the average
sp ortsaaa-hnnter in having the ksenest interest in the
actions of the animals and in beii« able to describo
what you observs in an accurate id interestio? way.

Since the skull of the big female you so
generously sent m proves to be the Kanai QrizzLy,

L, and not one of the Br^wn Baaro. I
would mif^eet that in the lower part of page 27 you
strike out the words I have enclosed in brackets.

On page 8 in speaking of sea parrots you
mention a dash of orange and red feathers on the head.

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on the bill rather than tha head? Enclosed is a .
photogiraph shoirlpg the haade of two of the Alaska

puffinBf which are often called sea parrots* They
have very deep bills wMch are brilliantly colored.

Some of the little auklets also are called sea par-
rots, 80 that I am not quite sure which you have in

mind«

I was interested also in your account of

Stelter^s ta/ne. moose* Do you remember how this moose
happened to be tame? Was it caught as a fawn or did

it become tame afterward?

Tour story fs chuck fall of Intardetipg

incidents and I hope you will publish it at an early
day. A yery Kttla editing is all that is needed
to fit it for thQ printer. I am returning it to you
herewith by registered mail and wish to thank you again
for your great courtsay in allowing me to read it in
advance of its publication.

. With best wishes.

Very trjly yours ^

Mr. Charles Se Kiiit^t

The Sanf ord . aSrrow Fabric Oo.
63 Leonard Street.
New York City.

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Varch 10, 1915

Hudson Book Co. ,

25 West 42Tid St* .
New York Oity.

Dear Sirs:

Raferrir^ a^in tc yoiir Book Lists Nop*
29t 30, 31, and 32, which you sent ^3 a short \vt*Q
ago, I shall ba obliged if yc?a will kiiidiy sand .r.«
on approval those snumaratad beloir. If there ar»
any I do not car^ to keep, I will x'9t.m-r\ thei sa-ce
within a couple ©f days.

Verj' truly yoiya.

Prom List #29:

18 Halley - Hiet. of Alarneda Co. 1876

fll !w<:i5^* S- " History of Marin Co. 18S0
81 Oanfiald - Diary of a Forty-niner. 1906

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64 OanneH - Modern Hist, cf present Dirt, of

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17 Morgan - Tahoe 1881

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Dear Hr. Bangs;

Many thanks for yo^x lci«i„„s in sending
- '-«X Of yo. separate.. This :.« a ^^ eat help. As I
-^d before, in case you aver need ^ .ore of ^, paper..
l«t ^ know, as I can now get at them v.rj^ easily.

When ycu ^e next in. ^^ part of the world
I should be »iii-v.tv tAt^A ^^^ ^^^

quarters aiid the way I hftv*j Ar-on^.^^ * . ,

•^ u*t^a ar anf^-ad my material.

With hast wie.hes and appraciatiTra thanks.

Verjr truly yours.

Mr. '')utra»'n B'-ci'\^8,

M'isaiim of"^Coa:5:aratiT-0 ZooIoot-
Oamhridg^^ Ma^s*

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Mr* Ncah F. Morrison. .
314 West .Tarsey St* , ,
Ellzabdtn, N. J.

Daar Sir:

Thanks for your <latalogia6 149* , From this
Catalog^.i9, if not already sold, I shorild be {<lRd to
purchase tha following:

3314 Beaoh - Indian Miscal. 1877 $5.00

3401 Gatschat - Ch-xnato Lanoia^a 1883 1.00
3469 Dixon - Gs/nblin^- Ga bs cf^KV^'jath In .75
3529 ProBt - Book of Indians of No. Am, l.CO
3679 Xroebar - Not as on the Ute lajvc. VO:^ .30
3876 Shea - Histc Oathclic Miss. 1855 4*00
3990 Wis • Bear Maiden .50

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March l^, 1915

Dear Arch:

Thanks for Bulletin 13.
I have known for many years that your
father was in the hahit of slippir^ off now ar.d then
to do a most unaccountable thing, namely, to watch a
baseball game. It seems fran yo-ar letter that you
have inherited a latent tendency alcr« the «.e line
which has suddenly burst forth in your desire to wit-
- """ "'*^°''^* ^*°«-- You h«i better look eut as
the« is no telling where th.se intensive hereditary
taints may lead one.

Very manjr thariw for the bode li.t. It is
J-t what I wanted a«d will enable n« to keep tally
of what and irtiera*

c m Loa tea-K6t.tle cama soon after

tha ,at,r ,.„ after tb, fira go« out.

I ara mi^ty glad v-n «««+ *»«-

-^ ^*« y » »9nt for some fellow
lio Bolder the 8rl5+ +<« --n

epi.t tin collar around t>.e chimney.

It will be a great thing to stop the laalcs.

The parage matter trcublas 3». Have you
tried opanir^ the side T^indows to let the air in so
that the place will have a chance to dry out? You
say there are a number of preparations that ca^ be
used on the roof to make it water-ti^t. but you
carefully abstain from g:iylng me infonnation as to
what they are.

Ust fall when the roof unquastionably did
leak, I had it painted with three coats of what pur-
ported to be a water-proof concrete paint, but ap-
parently it did not cure the disease. Of course it
would be out of the question to leave the car there
next winter if the celling continues to be decorated
with dr^ of water.

You surprise us fjreatly by the statemant
that Jitney buses run from San Ansslao t.0 San Rafael
to tlie tune of 5c per passenger. Why don't you start
a connecting line to run from Lagunltas to Fairfax or
San Ane^ltno?

It biwirht tears to our eyes to laam that

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you and your good wife had saen Sugie^As you were
silent as to her appearance, we like to aasunie that
she W&8 looking well and that her joints will be
well lubricated by the and of April*

€Had Martinelli is at work but horrified

to ^hink of the possibility of diptheria arnong his
children*

We cannot think of any objection to a bridge
at the junction of Mountain View and Carson Avenues,
althouf^ none of ub here are sufficiently versed in
local ncmanclatura to know whore this locality la.

Tell that little wife of yours not to worry
about the stain on the piazza. If it bothers m I will
put another coat of paint over it.

Hope you had a good day for Cataract Canyon.
Ifs a glorious place. I nearly killed niyself once
trying to back-pedal a fat woman down it trm the top
of the mountain. She went first and I pulled back on
a strap arcund her waist, but it was a severe crdeal.

Why did you treat those slugs in such a pesky

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Sorry I don't kno. your young and prettv

«i" Smi«. But I have a Piece Of advlj '
Next t.^ ,e. ,^ ,, ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^_^ ^^-

P-ecr.be Grindelia for inten^al ,«e . Ifa too .

l-flra «^,^ 1. ^ ^ 1T> 8 tOO ffluch

'" """ "^^ *^ ™°"- -. ^«% or oCher af r,otad
part. a.^,r^ -^ twenty .l„„t,. for .bout „
hour. al«j™ putting th« on . uttl, hotter tta th,
patient can stand.

OrlndeUa i. 10,^ „ore aff«ti„ „^ j„ ^^.,
«y »» ,h„ .,pn«, mi .tr„^h fr» th, bottU.
Sine, th, arplictJon of hot .t.,. i«,.. t^, *i„ ,
littl, t,™tor. It 1. ^,,^1, ,, ,,^ ^^^j^_^ ^^ ^^ .

«oxnt th, «:rf«« ,ith a .oothlrg u,«u,nt.for which
mo., r tao, nothing b,tt.r th„ t,„ «,«i,^t„. ,^j^.
»a, and sold .t ,„ R^„i. ^, ,j.„ „j^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^

a^i raiar co^rt.r 1„ th. %rr, ».mir^ (,^,^,^^ ,„.
trance )•

««. any ^?lrb5?s t'^t*;srLf i*%'s"ri:' "."
nth io« to ym both. ^ "°™*-

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Dr. H. A* Sifton.

519 Astor Street^,
Ifilwauked, Wi8<

Ify de r Sir:

T^jry maiy tharics for your kindness in

sanding trhe grizzly skulls* Thdy arrived a ccigple
of days ago in excellent conditj on, and I an ex-
ceedingly gilad to see tbsau The female 18 a very
old individual of Ursus stikcnensis and the skull
Bomeiftiat smaller than any I have saem The males
also are of considerable interest, but I have not
yet had time to examine them critically.

Thankine you for your courtesy in the mat-

ter.

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2113 Third Avenue West,
Tancouver, B. 0,

Dear Sir:

Thanks for your letter of Pebrjary 25. I
regret to Uarn cf your accident but swi clad that
you are now well and that you have hopes of settir^
oat on a bear hunt about the end of this month. I
trust you will be successful in obtainirg one or mor«
grizzlies^

With best wishes*

Tery truly yours»

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March 12, 1915

Dr. William Bebt, tn 4. i o i. i

Norf^westem Univ. Dental Schcolt
(T^icBsrO^ III.

Dear Dr. Bebb:

The baar skull yon w^re kind enou^

to Bsnd us ca^e some time ago, but cmirr to pra?sura
of other matters I am very tardy in acknowledgiiTg

the same.

of the

It proves to bd a vary interesting skull

group and I would like mistily

to know irhere the beer was killed* It is rather small
and has a more slender rostrum than most skulls of
the srecies. The last uyper molar a^ees fairly well
with specimena from northwoctern Wyomir^, but is con-
siderably smaller th^an in s-aill« from Oolorado and
Idaho. I suppose V ere is no possibility of tracir^
it at this late day.

Thanking you for t'^e speci!non,vMch we are
very glad to add to the National Collection.

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Mr. Albert P. Morse,
Peabody Museum,
Salem, Ma-^a*

Dear Mr. Morse; .

You have baen vary kind to carry on
Inquiries concemir^ the orifrin of that California
grizzly skull, and I greatly a^^preciate your effort
in atten5>ting to run the thing down. It is now evi-
dent however that we shall never know exsu^tly where
the bear was killed and can only judge approximately
by the known rangs of the species to which it belongs.

Owing to a series ^f unprec«dontad delays^
I did not succiad taitil yesterday in seciuring a set
of prints of the ne^tives takan soma time ago of this
skull* I will return the specimen shortly, ^ong ^ith

the two polar bear skulls*

Very truly yours.

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March 12, 1915

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100 Grand Avenue,

St. Louis, Mo.

Daar Sire:

Thanks for your book liat on Indians re-
ceired to-day. Prom the saaie I am ^rlad to order tke
following:

Nevada. Journal of the Senate. 1866 $2.50
JJhea: History of Catholic Mission.. 1855 3.50
Ires: Rept. on Colorado River. 1861 3.00

Stansbury: Sreat Salt Lake. 1853 .'75

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Jfy da&r lb** Ia TleBcha:

Very raany thanks for sending

me the atory about the mother l»ar and her little
cubs. It i« a most interesting tale and I shall be

very glsd to ubo it*

With beet wishes and kind regards to Miss

Fletcher*

Very truly yoiirst

Mr* Francis La Fldsche*
214 First St*. S. fi.
Washingtont D

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Dear Dr. Goddani:

Many thanks for -he bunch of your
esparates which ca-ne tp^iay. They will be put to
good use*

^ Replyiilg to your letter of the 1st inst. ,
asking for contributions to the 'Anthror-ologist',
would sagr that I have on hand a considerable quantity
of material *aitable for iJbithropoloplst* articles,
but an so behind hand in other woric that I do not see
how I can prepare anything in the iamediate future.
_-_ 'or «ereral years I have be^n hopirg thai

you would giro me % chance to siMw you the material
I have collected^ relatirg to California ani Nevada
IndiaM«. I still hope that you will do this in the
not distant futiu^e*

Vith best wields*

Very truly yours.

Dr.

Pliny Iw Goddard,

American llusaum of Natural History.
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Uea- Sire:

♦

Last fall you asked ma to Idt you kn<* if
there was ai^y old book on Indians or exploration which
I particularly ^ranted. In the early sixties Alexander
S. Taylor published a eories of ar^.icles on California
Indians in a ^ater called 'The California Farner and

Journal of UsefU Science*; publis^^ed at San Fraacisco.
There articles ware entitled 'TheMMiwio^og^^o^^i^
fomia** I know of t^ coraplete sets which W(;jre cut out
and bound in book form. There may be others^ I am will*
ir^ to give $50* for a conrjiate set of the articles, either

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Mr. A. GottBchalckt Tytagr*^
Montana Armory.

. Bozaraant Montana.

Hear ^ir:

Your letter of the 11th inst. arrited to-day,

for which I am obliged. I accept your offer as to all
the lots of bear skulls except tiid so-called 'Pine Nut
Bear* which I had once and raturntd. Ton niay raaemhe**
that I purchased the skin of this bear several years ago.
The skull seems to be that of an old s'

TTorn teeth*

Th'j skulls yoe *iiay send nae as par letter of the

11th inst, are Lot l,Tiinbin7olf skuill, $2.50; Let 6, SI Saar
s^-O-illSt^eO; Lot 7,2 large Bear s'<alla^; Lot 6,3 niecJium
Bear skullsJ^S; Lot 9,2 fronts Of Bear s'<ull8 with teeth;?)2

In every case where you know W')are the animal

was Icllled, pleaare attach a tag to the skull stating the
locality whara killed. In cases of unci^rtainty do not
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In all caeds whara skulls are desired for
Museum purposes it is of great importance to have them
labeled with Jhe_^ocality where killed. The inform-
tion "Rocky Mountains" is far too lai^e an area to
serve for labeling. There are at least three apecie.
of Grizzlies in the reg-lon yo»a mention, na.iely northern
Idaho, western Montana, and Wyoming. I a>Ti tryii-g to
map the ranges of the savaral species by the skulls and
cannot of course -obtain any assistance from skulls which
are not labeled for locality.

Please wrap each skull separately ard in the
case of cleaned skulls put a pad of folded paper betw^san
the tseth to save breakage of teeth in transit, as tears'
teeth are exceedingly brittle. When the skulls have bsen
wrapped please pack carefully in one or more boies and
sand by express, charges collect, iddrass: U. S. Biological
Survey, Dept. of Agriculture, Washir^ton, D. (5,, and write
your own name on the outside so that the man icho unpacks
the box will know who it is from.

Very truly yours.

P. S.

Your skull photofrraphg I am returning herewith.

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New York City.

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Dear Mr. King:

Thanks for yoiirs of the 12tli inst* Yes,

I slull be very glad of additional details about that

moose of Stalter^s. particularly as to ho^r it hefpaned

to be taTie* Any facts about it will be of interests

You may be sure that I meant everything I
said about your Keani Hunt manuscript* It is a distinct
contribution to our knowledge of the naturiQ history
of the animals and I shall be glad to see it in print*

With best wishes*

Very truly yours.

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Mr. IVank S* Daggett,

Misetan Hiatory, Sciancd arxl Art,
Lo8 Ai^las, Calif.

Dear Mr. Dag/Tett:

At last I hbve racked ani rdtumad
the four bear sJcull* you ware so kind as to loan me
a little more than two jaontha ago. Sach waa carefully
packed separately and the four anclosad in a box which
•tarted for your Ifasdum by express prepaid to-day. Tlie
box contains five packages: t^ie two La Brea skulls, the
two recent skull., and a- fifth package (the smalisst
one) contalninc^iejugal bones and a few other fragments
beloi^irg to i^ big Arctoth^nn^m sVull. Wnen these

jugals and the attached piece of sqijaraosal are set in
place the zyroiia ic arches are cooiplsta.

I have taken careful aeasures^nfc* of these
Bkulls ard have four photogn^hs of the Arctt^thariim.
from different points of vi^. We have absolutlqr no
Acsiaihacim material in t^e tiational Museum so that I
waw unable to ccwpare yc.:r sballs with others. Dr,

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t^o 8rl«ndld ^laitflliliflciaa skulls fran the Potter Or.ek
cave, and I think frag:«nts of otiiers. so that he will
be able to detenalne whether or not the Rancho La Brea
.kull belor^to the same specie, as those fron the iJc
Cloud River.

/ The small fossil skull, as I wrote you at the

^ tlms of its receipt, is . female grizzly, very closely
/ related tolherecant species of the adjacent San Gabrael
Mountains. On close canparison however. I find a few
difference.. I will write J. '. ^erriam about t^se.

Of your two skull, of recent griwlie. from
the Yates collecti<«, the one with brokan zy^rarBtic
archas i^ a perfectly typical young^adult male of Ur«.«
ilftUlflXalail.- The o*her I have not bsen able to detemi
.atisfactcrlly. It most nearly t^ees with a Colorado
skull of grflM Imtrai. The j«r which came with it and
which I have returned with it. has nothirg whatever to
do with this particular skull.

Since all of these specimens are marked 'L 4'
I have difficulty in discriminatir^ than in my notes.

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In casa you f;iva them JiuBeum numbars, I shall ba
obliged if you will kindly lat ne know what the num-
bers are«

Later in the season when I come to Cali-
fornia I shall hope to see s^aie of the underjars of
the big Acclfiihailim- if J- '• ^^rriam ^^as tham at
Berkeley I can examine them there and com[rare them
with the McCloud River material. Otherwise I will ask
you to let me see them when I visit Los Angeles la^er on*

These skulls have been exsrainad with the ??:»«'*•
eat interest and some astonishment by various m^jmbers of
the Biclot^ical Survey and Ibseum staffs, as none of our
mamoalogists or palaeontologists liad ever seen an ^C&bP*
thariim skull*

Thanking you for your courtesy in loaning tham

to me, and trusting they wi 1 reach you in the sane per*
feet condition in which they arrived h&r^.

Vary truly yo^rSf

Ifarch 16, 1915

Section of AnthropolSrv and 1>«r«»,«i

waehington, D. 0, *

Bear Dr, Holmes:

Since the receipt of jo^xr letter I
have bsen cc^ltatlng on your request for eu^eetion.
as to the best parson or persons to lay before the
National Acadamy at its next maetir« the results of
recent prpgress In inthropolog5^ and the more I have
cogitated the less I have perceived in the way of
notable accaaplisha»nt during the past year. Of re«
suits in Psychology I om not compatent to sreak, but
Professor Oattsll and other aidmbdrs of the OoTinittae
will knoir if anything notable has been done in this
line*

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One of my principles in life has b:jen that
i^an one harlfel^ine In particular to say, it is bett(
to remain silent* Would it not be well to apply this
pollcjr to the Section under consideration?

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J- Ycurs cf just a ^onth ago to-day still r«-

To«M on my d8* imaRBWsjred. But this condib ion will.

not continufl. Am glad you wrote Dr. Howcoab^ of Tic-
torU about those buffalo horn cores ard so on.

It is good to knw that you ara goii^g; to
lijLis&k t>ui Rancho La Brea 6amiYord8 durir)g thia comiiig
sunnier. Shall you coma on hara this spring? If ^^ ^
hope you ^11 coma early, as wa are expecting to ptill
out for LafOTiitas during: the latter part of A^ril*

To-day I returned by express to the Los
A^gales Miisaum the four bear skulls loaned xm Isy Dag-
gett* Two of thepe were the speci-nens Z wrote you about
sane ^tne ^0 - & huge AtcljiLh^udlB^and a female grizzly
of the eaaid general tj^e as the recant one of the adja-
cent region on the north* This latter skull I ha^ ax»

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niticn^at least as a subspecies. And as you are shy
of material for comparison I enclose herewith a copy
of my notes on the skull.

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of interest here a? none of our mamialogists or palaaon-
tologlsts had orer seen one* Wa have absolutely no Arc*
^ totherlun material for comparison. But I have compared

It carefully with
four ejculls.

of which wa have three or

When I get to California I hope you will have
this 8 mil at Berkeley and that you will allow me to

compare it with your skulls from the llcCloud.

▼e ware all shocked at the news that Ohsrles

had been operated on for arpendecitis and that Malcolm
had been laid up with pneumonia. We realize the anxiety
you and Urs. Merriam must have suffered for some dajrs.
It is a joy to know that both boys have fully recoyared.

* ITith kindest regards to you all.

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Mardi 17, 1915

Dr. B. W. ivsmnann, Diractcr, .

California Academy of Sciences.
San ?ranciBco, <Jalii»

Dear Dr. Bvermaimt

Yoiir lett-er of the 11th inat. with

enclouiireB has just arrived. The docunwnts in relation
to the Acadamy ara most distressing. I Tiad hoped that
the matter of the buildir^ would hare been settled Vefore

thii

Kie extract froai a letter froa Raf ineaque to

Dr. John Torrey. written in 1832, Is certainly of Tery
great intaraat, and I hoje you Tdll jublish it in 'Science'
as you suggested. Before dolr^ this horever, it mi^t be
well to glance over sotw of Rafinesque's other writing* ,
for I think I remember exprersions to the same effect in
some of those which I have read* Ify memory is so poor

nowadays that I cannot recall a definite reference^

r anas Meefean in an article^in the 'Philadel-
phia Ledger* t partly reprinted in •Garden and foreat* of
Ap-il It 1891 (p«146)t remarked: •His theory^ for example »

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now universally adO«,^ade^d. that new species and
genera are being continually produced by derivation
from existing foms. appear edTutterances of a mad
mn and entirely outside the teachings of the theo-
Ipp-ical faith which before Darwin' s time had not
lost Its hold on scientific thou^t,- Where Ifaehan
got this I do not know. It might be worth while to
look in Rafinesqua's 'Analyse de la Naturrf. 1815. Jor-
dan published a note on this work in tha 'Proceedii^s
of the U. S. Nat. Hub., p.480. 188J and an article in
Topular Science Monthly' for November. 1886. The Utter
I cannot lay my hands on at this moment but would think
it worth looking up in this conmction.

Whether or not this eldmant of Rafinesqua's
philosophy has been broi^t out by his biographexs I
do not r«nember. You doubtless have access to the

book entitled 'The Life and Writir^s of Rafinesque*

by R. Bllsworth Call. In addition to this there is a

sketch of Rafinesqae's life with bibliography published

by T. J. Fltzpatrlck at Des Moines in 1911. This book

I have not read but it is said to bettemost cc«iiplete work
of the^ind thus far attempted*

With best w^ishas.

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Mr. Diri^t W, Huntington. .

S aonservation Society.

150 Hassan Straat.
New York City.

Dear Sir:

Tour letter of the 3rd inst. addressed to

me at tny su-Tiner home in Calif omia.has just reached

me here in Washington.

I am very glad to know that a bill has bien
introduced in the New York Legislature providing that
citizens of other states engaged in legitimate game
farmir^ W ship aixi sell in New York properly iden-
tified game raised on the farrtu

The present law forbiddirir. such s^les is a
severe blow to a worthy industry, and I trust that it
will be repealed at an early day.

Yery truly yours^

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UBSUS CALIPORNiaUS LABRBA

~ ■ Female adult, Los iaagalee Museum

Skull tractically perfect except: zygcraata and
lower iair lackim and posterior edge of palate trofeen,
i?J?eniSg J^curlte meUremant of palatel length. In-
cisors and big premolars (pti^) of bot^ sides ^<^
last uppar moUr (in^),on right side absent. Tbs m^l
pr^mol a-s (pm^^.and -2) were never present, there being
no trace of alieoli*

f2iacafiifin«- Skull lor^, lo», sjid narrow; teeth
of moderate size. Similar in general to ''emale califor-
nieus but snaJLler; fronto-rasal region less deprest; ca-
nines and incisors aboirt same as in gRlifcmleua^ but
molars (■?• and nP-) smaller; heel of a^ much smaller.
JIgrees in siza (basal length and interorbital breadth)
with fooale tu^arensis from San Fernando Mission (no.
15682 U. S. National !4a83um), but differs in less frontal
elevation, less projectirg pcstorbitals, less dsprest
fronto-nasal re£;ion, decidedly longer occipito-sphanoid
(85 mm. contrasted viih. 78nin. ); flatter and smoother
bulla*; decidedly narrower basioccipital; shallower inter'
pterygold^wlth pterygoid border of aliephancid low and

nearly horizontal; posterior opening of aliephenoid canal
closer to forsmien ovals; nasal 8 broader anteriorly; an-
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(ml and m^) decidedly smaller; heel of m^ much less alongata;
oahines apparently more slender [in our specimens of tula-
rensia the canines are badly cracked and expanded]; in-
ci-sors apparently larger (series loiter on alveoli).

Remarks*- The La Brea skiill is evidently close-
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March 17. 1915

Mr* T. Silbart Pearsorit

1974 Broadway t ^.

New York City

If no strings attached and not'^nng wanted for puhlication

Yes. Otherwise No.

0. Hart Merrlam

Sent in answer to following telegram: New York, March 16, 1913

Would you consider repif'asentir^ this association in
givir^ a series of four illustrated lectures on bird and
animal life at the University of California this su-mer
for two hundred dollars. Wire.

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March 18. 1915

Horaian OriddlOt Bflct^t

Dopt. of Agriculture.

Otta:Kra« Oaiiada.
Ify dear Sir:

7ei7 many tlianks for your psy^r on 'Sc:ija
Canadian Rodents Injiirioye to Agriculture*, a copy
of wMch rt^achsd r.ia this mornir^. If you have plan^iy
of separates I ehculd appraciata ancthar copy«

It is uncouraging to see that you and
eome of your relatives are giving bc rr!»Ach attention
to the sdiall marjimals of Oaioada, concaniir^ ?7hicb.
much re^ialns to le learned tcth as to their life
histories and economic relations.

Ten^ truly yours.

March 18. 1915

Forest a^ Stream Publiehinc; Co*.
22 Thames Streets '

New York City* ,

Dear Sirs:

Bnclosed please find my check for $3*70
for which kindly send m Paul G. Tomlinson's 'To

the Land of the Caribou*. ^I.IO, ai^ Sir John Rogers'
•Sport in Tancouver and Newfoundland. $2*60. as quoted
in ycOf list of sjortsraan's bcdcs* Please send re-

ceipted bill with the books*

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March 18, 1915

Dear Mr. Pearson:

Thanks for your letter just received,

which ccntains information I Bia glad to have. There
seami to be no reascn why I should not accept your in-
vitation to deliver four lectures before the SuKzner
School of the University of Oalifomia at Berkeley,
yo^jr only condition being that I tell Bornethini: of ths
work and aims of the National Afsociation of Audubon
Societies, which I sho^ild be gla^ "» ^o anyway as a
matter of course. I will therefore select fran my stock
of colored slides a few more then will be necessary for
these talks in order to give iiyself a little leeway when
on the ground. I will probably taVe &>.out four hundred.

I shall be gl&d to receive the outline of
your plan of work and so on when ready for distribution.
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dates of ny assignment as soon as the arrangements
for the sumner course are ccrapleted. And I assume
that the dates of these four talks will be near to.
gether - not scattered over a lorg period,

Very tmly yours.

Mr.

T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary,

National Assoc, of Audubon Societies.
1974 Broadway,

New York Oity.

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March 18, 191&

Mr* Jamas L# Clark,

1160-62 S0uth3 rn Bculevardt
Bronx, New York City*

Dear Ur. Clsik:

Rerlyir^ -o ycur letter of yeaterday.

would say that I shall he very glad to send you the
hear skull ycu mention, in order that you mgy make
casts of the t3 3th* I aBsume that you refer to the
large skull from the TJrper Stikine brought home by
Lincoln Ellsworth^for the reason t>^at Mr. King's
largest skull was a female grizzly fron the Kanai*
However, it occurs to me that the job you have in
mini would be better accomplished perhaps if I were
to send you skulls of adult m>lQ8 of sevaral species,
having teeth of different sizes* I could, for instance,
send a skull of the great Alaska Penineula Bro^m Bear,
Ilrgns gvaa^ one of the Kadiak Bear, Ursus middendorffi,

and one or two Alaska Qrizzlies* If ycu wish to cast

the teeth only (not the s'^-ulls), I cculd pick out youngish

skulls having much better teeth than those in the old animals.
Let me know ycijir wishes in the matter ard I will act accord-
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Forest Service,-

Telma, Wash.

Ify dear Ur. Rice:

Than;

just received. I m vary gUd to have the information
you give OB about the number of Black Bears killed in
ycur region in 1913 and 1914. I am especially rUd to
know that yon will be able to get the s<ull of the big
bear you mention as having t=.an killed last year and
which rresumably is a Grizzly. When you g^t it please
ship as before. Address: U. s". Biological Survey. Dept.
of igriculture, Vashir^ton, D. 0, Plsase attach a tag
to the p nil ,~ivinf the locality where killed and ap-
proxiaiate date, and also your own name so that we may be
sure whon the epecimen is frcm.

Vary truly yours.

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March 18, 1915

Mr. Herbert A.J?rait.h,
Forest Service,

Washington, u, ">.

Vij dear Mr. ?mith:

Your article on 'Hunting in tbe

Nationa Forests' recently TubUshed in 'American
Forestry' for March I have just read with great in-
terest. Should you happen to have plenty of separates
I could make good use of two or three copies.

I am interested in yoior account of the tree-
it^ of a sheep man by a she Grizzly somewhere in -yo-
.i.^. Oan you t,,ll me approximately w%re this occorred
.0 I m-^y be able to venture a gaess as to ^.ich particular
. species of Grizzly was t'le a^rreffsor?

Very truly yours.

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Mr. Noah Pamham Morrison,

314 West Jersey St. ,

Elizabeth, N. J.

Dear ^ir:

March 20, 1915

The hooks you sent me a short time ago
arrived safely alot^: wi*^ 7°"^ hill for $12. The
latter will be laid hy check frcra the Smithsonian
Institution on or about the first of April.

may

Very truly yoxirSt

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March 20, 1915

Hudson Book Co.,

25 West 42nd St.,

Hew York City.

Dear Sirs:

The books you ssnt me a slrrt time ago
arrived safely along with your bill for $12.50. The
latter will be paid by check fran the Smithsonian
Institution on or about the first of April.

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Mr. T. Grilbart Pearson^ Secretary^

Natl. Aaaociation of Audubon oocieties
1974 Broadway, *

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Dear Mr. Pearson:

Thanks for yaVrs of yestarday* In
reply to ybxir inqiiry I expect to leave for California
about the end of April, We should like to go by way
of Panama but Mrs. JJerriam feels it necessary to
reach our place at Laminitas at least two weeks ahead
of the A. 0. IT* meeting in order to open the house
.and put thinp-s in shape before the maitlig.

Thanks for your offer of the loan
of slides taken on Govermient Raservations and Audu-
bon Bird Reservations. In view of the fact that these
lectures are under the auspices of your Society, I

think it would be a good plan to show sone of your pic-
tures.

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March 20. 1915

Mr. Jag2;^|%s^.

Alberta.
Dear Mr. Simpson:

^anks for yo,r letter of the 16th

Inst, just received. The*'^^t**b ,

ine^skull has not arrived y«t

but doubtless will co^ in a day or two.

By all means send me the two other
Bkulls you mention having at your ranch, no matter
If the teeth are broken and one of t^e jaws gone.
They will he worth something to na anyway. PUase
also let me know where they were killed.

Very truly yours.

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March 22, 1915

Dear Mr. Warren:

Yesterday I borrowed your rlantt

albums from ^fr. Oovilla^and both Bailey and I looked
them over with a £*re8.t deal of interest* We were sirr- -
prised to find that you had baen able in so 8hor£ a
time to photograph such an immanse number of species*

If you are prepared to dispose of prints
^ of some of these, I should be glad to purchase a few
as per enclosed list*

With best wishes and thanks for the oppor-
tunity of examining theee albums.

Very truly yours^

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1676 Calth^ '■»t**^ilffflli

— Rosamont, July 29, 1914

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Woodland Park, July 6, 1914
(with seed -pod^olo. Springe, Aug. 7, 1903

Crested Butte, June 28, 1903
TlridlfloniB Oolo. Sprir^a, June 1, 1904

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June 26, 1912 (2nd print)

Douglas, Fyo.,Aprlll£, 1903

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San Acacio, Costilla Co..

Jun3,24, 1912

Mr. B. R. Warren,

20 West Cararnillo St.,
Colorado Springs,
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March 22, 1915

Mr. James Brewster. '
Banff.

Alberta.

Dear Sir:

I have bian infcrmsd that you hava hunted
bears in the Kinbasl^et Lake country anl on the Xoop
of the Oolumbla. Have you any skulla of Grizzly
Bears from these localities or from any other parts
of British Oolumibia or Albert*?

I am anxious to purchase as f^mny skulla as
possible of Grizzly Bears and will pay good prices
for the same, according to sex. a^e.an! condi^on. pro-
vided each skull is tagged idth th» locality where kill-
ed and arproxima^e date if known.

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Ifr. J. 0. Miles
1710 Broadway.

Denver, OoIq,

Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 17th inst. la at hand.
For tho female Grizzly skull and skin complete and
in good shape for a ^lisaum specimen, of i,hich you
write, I will o^fer from $35 to $46. accoitiing to
the age and condition of the same.

If you care to eell It at this price, please
ship by express. chaiiEres collect. Add-ess: U. «•. Bio-
aogical Survey, Dept. of Agriculture. Washington, D. 0.
In case the skull has been cleaned, please put a pad
of folded paper between the jaws to prevent breakage
of the teeth in transit, the t»«th of bears baiig ex-
ce»dlr^ly brittle.

Very truly yours.

a^6

Mr. H. A. O'Leary-

1483 Flatbush Avenue ,
Brooklyn, K. Y.

Bear Sir:

March 22, 1915

I tlank you for yotar Special List No. 41 and

from it I should be glfid to order the followiags

#S2 ?olk-Lore of a Vanishing Race' hy 3. f . Deming .35
#66 ISH-PAU-BB-KAU and the White Bear* hy Kah-Von-Dek . 50

=#67 Have the Standing Rock Indian* bean Fairly
Treated? 'by (Jeorge K'nnan

#244' A Wolf -Hunt' by P. l^- ^. Selmes

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Dear Ifr* Hen«hair:

Your letter ef the 19th inet* arrived

this morning alorg with the liet of separatea of my pa-
per# 'wlildi you already have* By this mail I ski eendir^B
you a batch of additionB, corBprisir^ all I am at preeent
able to lay my hands on except certain numbers of ^lorth
American Fauna* and •Annual Reports of the 'Thief of th©
Biolop-icaJL Survey. I assume that you already ha^'e m. coia^
plete set cf Morth Amsrican Fa;ma'; if noi.t I ehall be
glad to supply jnissiiTg numbers so far ae poseibld.

I regret that I have no complete duplicate
copy of my •MaonBls of the Adircndacks. * This was pub-
lished in- two parts, the first in 1862 and the aeccnd in

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sending but of tha former I have not had an extra copy for

cauny yaars

ith best wishis

Vary truly youm.

Mr. SaTiual Renc^'aw,

'Curator Wis. OoOT:atatiy9 /^oclo^/,^
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Ottaw-a, Canada.

yty dsar Gilaon;

Hone time ap-o you ware kiril enough
to send m a separata of V^a 'Arctothdrium' papsr
for which I aiskad, I know you aaust bars j^-one to
some trouble to find this, and I greatly ajpraciata
ycur courtesy in the matter,

Very truly ycjurs.

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Mr.

Robert D* Oars on. Superintendent,
Philadelphia Zoolo/^rical Garden,
34th and Girard Ave ,
Philadelphia, Pa*

Dear Mr. Oar son:

Yesterday I returned by express prepaid

the skull of "Rosa*, one of the two grizzly skulls you
so kindly loaned roe early in February*

The other skull, the ona frcm South Perk Will-
iams River, Oolorado, I am takirg the liberty to keep
for a little longer, as I am anxl ous to compate it with
other skulls from the Rocky Mountain region which have
been promised for some time, and some of which are now
on the way. It is an interestir^g young male of the spe-
cies described by vae as Ursua shoBhona. I will return
it before leaving for Oalifomia the latter part of April.

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Mr* &• H. LirpBt ^

Indi^m School.

Carlisle, Pann.

Dear Sir:

Referring to ycnr circular letter received

today, I taka pleasure In enclosing herewith iny cheek
for $1 in payment for renewal of subscription to the
•Red Man* for the preser* year. Not having recaited
a hill I was not aware that my suhscription had ex-
pired.

The 'Red Man* always interests me. Its me-

chanical 3iake-up andt artistic ill^jistrations always ap-
peal to mst and in nearly every nimber I find eorriathing
worth reading from my point of view*

Nevertheleas^ I am soraetimas pained and even
shocked by the condemnatory tone of sonB of the arti-
cles and paragcaphs. For instance tha March number;

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Vhich can© today, has an article on *The Piute Country*
in which ^ho author sajm very nasty things about Teenegat

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^° has recently been brouAt in k n

i« true Of. ""^^ ^" ^^ General Scott, it

^rue of ccirse that Tsenecat VA^^ a
whatwwreth« • ""^^ '^'^^«'* * ?'fexican,but

The author of this art</.i-

•ni *»»!.*«* X ^"^ region

-Jacent county, .pp^^ntly .eri.i^ his info^.

tlan from catUe men. who are naarlT «J« u
I«li««. *'^' ^'•^r. hostile to

to unH ,. .!' '' ""^ '"""''' *' •^•^* ^^^ '^^ ^•
to uphold the I«aan and point out hi« ^

, ^°^°^ <»«t his good qualltie.

rather than parade his misdeed, and c«nH*», i..

^ , ^^ "" condemn him without

trial?

Very truly yours.

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Houlton Book Co. ,

1000 11. Grand Avenue,
St. Louie, Mo.

Dear Sirs:

finclosed is ^ check for $7.25 in payment

of enclosed bill. The hooks arrived all ripht.

I am returning herewith the list yo>a sent
me as you m^ h. ahle "O use it elsew^^ere. X an not
interested in worke on archaeolo^, or in general works
on anthropology, or in Eastern Indiat^. but am interested
m publications relatii^ to Indians of Oallfornia. Hevada.
and Utah^and in works on early exploration In the Wast.

Very truly yours.

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March 25, I915

^-j^A.Andersen.

eOWest 40th*St..

New York Olty,

% dear Ifr. Anderson:

You have been a great hunter

in your day. and niaybe your day is not ow yet.
What I a. driving at Is thi.: you have kiUad grizzly
baar., I beliav. both in t'^ fiocky Mountain, and in
AU.ka or British Col^U; have you saved the skull,
of my of these?

As yc« doubtless know. I have been for some
years at woric on a monpgr^h of the Big Bear, of North
Aiwrlc «id am now making a great effort to see as many
skulls as possible before completing the work. If you
have any skull, which you are willing to loan me, I
8hc«ld he greatly obliged if you would kindly ship the
sane.cWge. collect. Addre..: U. <?. Biolorical Survey.
Dept. of Agrlcilture, V'ashiTBton. D. .1. It is well to
place a pad of folded newspaper between the jaw. to pre-
vent breakage of teeth in transit as bear.' teeth are

-- "remely brittle. v«>nr f i

very truly your..

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March 25. 1915

Mr. iS. R. Robinson,
410 River Street,
Troy, K. i«

Dear SlrJ

I thank jm for Catalogae No. W just re-

ceived.ard from it I wotdd like to order No. 585 -
J. M. Buckley*a 'TVo Weeks in the Yosemite aid Vi-
cinity, price $1.

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Ulse Hel«n Hughea,

2100 Sixteenth Street.
Washirgton, D. •'.

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The past winter, althonfji unusually
mild, has been a hard one for charltaVle institutlonB
and consequently has put a rather severe strain on people

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For rasjiy years I hare not contributed to Tash-
li«ton charities but have saved iihat I could afford to
give for the benefit of California Indians » rhose condi-
tion in most cases is very unhappy. Many of these poor
Indians die every winter from the indirect affects of

stsrvatl on. Their white neighbor s claim the accm crop
for the hogs and drive the Indians away« sometimes with

shot-gune, so that the Indians who for thousands of years
hav3 subsisted on acwm nrsh and aconi bread » becofrxe so
poorly nourished t^^at they die of tlie first disease that

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l«i - to break ^ record, and your letter of the 22nd
i«t. is causing ^ to V.ea. it a^ x ^ averse to
Pl-ea. Of a^ Und a«| therefore take the liberty to
.nclose a «ali check herewith for the benefit of the
Toung tonen's .Thrletlan Association.

Very truly yours.

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March 25 , 1915

March 25, 1915

Mr. P. S. Ridsdale, ^

Anierlcan Forestry Abboc. ,
1410 H Street,

WaehingtOTi , D. '-•

Dear Mr. Ridsdale:

Maiy thanks for your cctrtesy in

sendir^ me three copies of VLr^arican ForestlT ^^ ^lardi,
containing Herbert Smithes article on 'Hunting in the
National Forests'. These copies have just arrired.

Very truly yowrs.

Mr. Plndley Bums,

Forasb Sarvlce,

Washington, D. C

Dear Hfr, Bums:

Many thanks for your latter of yester.
«ftT. gl^ng m the locality of the Grlzsly epieode in
Mr. Smith's article. I am obliged alao for the three
•xtra copies of 'American Forestry' for March. contain-
h% Mr. Smith's article, which hasre just arrived.

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Mr. ?x*anci8 Kermodet

Provincial Musoum,

Victoria^ ^« *^*

Skulls not received. Were they shipped yia Seattle and hy what
expresB Company?

C. Hart Merriam

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yoreBt and Stream Pablie>iing Oo..
22 ThamsB Street,.
Neir York Oity.

Dear Siret

On llardi 18 I «ent you my check for $3.70

m payment for two book, which I ordered at the aame
time, and aa^.ed you to eerd rtceipt. The hook, have
itrriTed. but no receipt. Inaenwch aa I am making
theae purchaae. from a apecial fund in which the re.
ceipt. are neceaaary a. Toucher.. I will be obliged
4* ««n will kindlv forward

Tery truly your..

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Dear

Ho receipt has as yat reached me for the
$3.50 aent you on Pebruary 16 i„ pay„«nt for two books
•ent:Be. On March 2 I wrote you as follow:

m payment^ J*^^ Jf f«^U~ ^ ^"^ ^^ ^^-^O

fi^sr^^'^sSa-f!' ' ^'^ ^ Obliged ?f^;::U'i"^^

Being unwilling to believe that you would in-
tentionally treat a customer with such pronounced dis-
courtesy as to" decline to send a receipted biU. I renew
my request for the same and enclose herewith a return

•nvelopa.

Very truly yotu*B,

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over the sinner who repented. That was a small affair
c4'ied with-tlB rejoicing in the Merriam family over
the news that you are positively engaged to Miss Dodge.

When your letter came a few minutes ago
our family ^M at lunch and I read the opening part
of your^seStence at the tame, going as far as that
YOU wished to announce that --then they all guessed,
either that you were engaged or that you were actually
married. Then I read the rest of the sentancA

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You have done the best thing for yourBslf
In try judgBfWP that you have done for many years ♦ for
I fully believe that you will derive more pleasure and
more good health from this lirW^totment than from all of
the other investments you have ever rnade* And you sursly
were lucky to get that fellow to build the garage for you
on such astonlshir^ly liberal terme* On the other hand
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matter of car insurance. I pay less than $25 a year
for more than three times the value of your car. But
I insure only against fire ani theft.

I have not heard any criticism of the Dodge's
cooling system.

•d„ ^® ®^e°^- ^0 ^ T^est the last week in AprU
or first 0 f May^ Mrs. Merriam says she wants to he there
by the end of April and, as you know, she ^ieneimUy ^^s
out. I hope we shall see you out there >«fore the end
of the season.

week,

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I suppose they have started Bast by this time.

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With best wishes from us all.

Very tnily yours ^

Mr* Wilfred H. Osgood,
Field Museum.

Chicago, II L

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March 26, 1915

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Dear }Jir. Elliott:

Your letter of the 16th inst* came

several daye ago« I have delayed answering in otder
to see what I mirht he ahle to do about loanir^g you
the money you wish ($350), to purchase a hig team
and wagon« I have less than $100 on hand and toward
the and of next month shall have to pay the expenses
of my family from here to California^ Hoirevert I am
anxious to help you and have arrar^d with the bank
here to get the needed money about the first of the
month* I will then transfer the same to the Crocker
Bank of San Francisco and will send you a check for

the $350 you need.

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I hope business will be brisk at Lagunitas
this year and that you will have no rival in the work
you are going to prepare yourself to do.

With best wishes to yourself and family*

Tery truly yours

Mr. C. B. Elliott,
Lapunitas ,
Calif.

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March 29. 1915

Bear Schulta:

Thanks for your letter of the 20th Inet. ,
and for the skull of the hlac'c hear w'nch you wer« .
kind enough to send. There are Uo speciet of hlack
bears in Arizona: this on«^which is very closely re-
lated to our eastern hlack heaj arxJ ariothar species

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which hail wry inach larger teeth*

Congratulations on killing mich a noWe ex-
ample of my naznesake, MelsafT^ft ^rrimni. He must
have bean a whopper to measure four feat aix inches
from bill to t^M and mast have been a heary lug throu^

the snow.

Since writing you last I have received another

batch of bear skulls frcm Lilly, including a grizzly.

NOt J do not knoir General Mneworth*

^ In CSIS3 you come to San Francisco during the

BWOMT I shall be very glad to see you.

Have you received the book I sent yon some time
ago?

Mr. Jas W. Scholtz,

Ckf^^r. Apache Co.,
JLrizona.

Very traly yours t

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Dear Professor Ivenann:

March 29, 1915

, , ^'"^ i«^^t«r of the 22nd irrt

gust r^ceivad is doubly intarestin .

y mtarestlng to me, both on ac-

count or t., :^„„..^,,, ^,,^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^

rou d».t .no, he delisted I .. to U toU t.at WIU-
In. OF,«tlon. h»r. «t„.lly We„ ,-e.^a .^ t%t th.

.. «U«i fm- in th, cortraet. u^ thank, for th. d,.
■tall.. I triet that f-i. nark, the beginning of a na.
era for the ^caderoy*

It certainly is good to know that the sci-
entific man of the two universities ar^ coming back into
the fold. This epaaks wall for your administration.

With best wishes.

Very truly yours.

Prof. B. /*. Evemann,

Calif, teade^ of PcienceSt
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March 29, 1915

Dr- Frederick J- ^. Skiff , I5i^§9*f^t

Field MusaiCT of Nat^:iral History,
Chicago, Illinois.

}fy dear Dr. I5kiff :

Thanks for your Annual Report on
tha Field Mjseum this day received* I am always in-
terested in the progress of the Museum ani ara de-
lighted to learn tliat the urearlsome obstacles in trB
way of the new Ifiseixn site have finally been swejt
away, s-^ ^^^^ ^^® ^^^ building ie about to become
a reality* .

The return card aujconiparying your last re-
port mentions that the Museum is glad to receive pub-
lications In exchange. In compliance with thig re^
quest I am sending; a number of separates of my pub-
lications relatinr- to manmals, birds, plants, Halif-
fomia Indians, and a few other subjects*

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80 ^eet 40th -St.
Ifew York iJiiy,

^ear Mr. Andsreon:

Vary .Tiamr thanks r««

opAyinp: to mjr recent letter »ot*

» tiler asking for the

loan or W e^.. xt .U.. . . 3^ ^^, ^^ ^_
that those eplandid grizzly .^u cf y... ,3^. dee-
t«ry«i *t the fire on your ranch.

Tea. thank you. I e,Hculd be yarjr glad to
•wa tha skull -of your big tear from Alaska Tenin«ui^
*nd to know just where it was killed. If you wHl
-kindly send it to -ne hy express, charge s collect. I
shall U very nwch obliged and will return it in a .few
daya. .

Very truly yours.

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March 29. 1915

Sir Gilbert Parkar,

20, Oerlton Hovme Terrace ,
LoxidQii« S» W« ,
England.

Ify dear Sir:

Yery mahy thanki f or your

courtesy in sendipg me a padcage of
original official British paj^ere re-
lating to the present terrible war*
Moet of us here are in deep

8ympb.tby with your cause, believiig
that Bngland did a nobU act in tak*
ing the stand it did for poo> Belgium,

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Uarch 30, 1915

Capt. J. P. Hubrick,
McOarthy,
Alaska.

Ify dear Sir:

Your letter of the 10th inet. came yesterday

and the staill arrived in good condition today^ for uhich
I am very much obliged* I am obliged also for the photo-
graph post cards and for the most inter astii^ copper nug-
get, which you were kind anoiigh to send me, and i?hich^ap
you sufgest^ ^-^ill make a novel and in^.eresting paper
weight.

You wera vao^ good to taka so much trcwbla
to get the tuaks Wlon^ing to this skull. I suppose
that the exact site where the skeleton of this bear lay
could not be found. If it could ba located, it is possible
that the under-jaw might still be dug up. in which case
it would be of value as completii« the specimen.

* I aifi'lMfcying you the miimum price of $40^
for this ekuU, a check for which amount will be sent

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three days«

I am plad to know that you ar3 scon goir^ on
a lonr hunt for big bear* I shall be glad to purchase

all the skulls you obtain of grizzlies or big brown bears,
includiiTf: both Feezes cmd all ages, ard will pay good
prices for the sams, tha pricas varyir^ of course ««-
cording to sex, age and condition. So please brlTg mi\

all the slculls you csji get*

Pleasj attach a tag to eatfli skull statir^g the

general locality where killed, ssi: ±f you know it, and

approximate date, also your own name. Some tags are sent

you herewith in a separate envelope. Ship all specimens

by express.

s collect, addressed: U* ?• Biological

Survey, Dept. of Agricultiure, Washirgton, D. 0. I shall
be very glad to hear from you and learn the results of

your hunt<

If you know of any ot^er persons who have skulls

of bears from any localities in thej^Oopper River country,
▼rangell Mo^mtains, or Mt* ^t. Blias region, I should be
glad if you would purchase the same for me.

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Msrch 30, 1915

180 Uarlboroiarfi Street,
Boston t uase*

Dear Mr. Mixter:

Preble has turned over to me the skin

and s'^U of the young bear obtained by you at Barter
Island, iaaaka. on August 12. 1613. It afpaars to b#
a cub of the second year, trtiich at the time of it. death
in Aueast would have been two years and a half old.

rjan you tell me whether the bear was a male or
a- female' And did you hear or learn of other hoare along
this part of the coast? Anything you have found out about
the bears of this region will be of interest to me-

The color or your s-cin is most remarkable and
is quite different rrom jmy thing I have seen* We are
greatly obliged for the 8 aill and have entered it in the
Museum catalogue am? a present from you* The sKin I hold

subject to your directions for sMpment* Shall I send

it to your house or to Frazar?

With best wienies to all the members of your
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Crocker National Bank.
San Francisco.
Calif.

Dsar Sir:

Haronrith I encloeo check on the National
\Tetropolitan Bank of t^-is city for !^325, which I
shall be oblig-ed if you will kindly credit to my
account.

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A. T, Q.

Dear Arch:

It 18 rood to receive another bulletin

from you after a somewhat el oiigat ad interval. I
had heard of your safe return from your father and
suspected that I would hear from you direct soon

after*

It is plaAdant to know that Ifartinelli has
burned up t^e brush and rubbish and that the result
is so satisfactory to the eya; also that yo^a are under-
taking to see to the covering for our snail spring.

Thanks for information and su^^stion about
the garage roof. Thf only stuff put on it in the way
of water-proof ing was a so-called TOter-proof cement
paintt a can of which stands under the work -bench in
tke garage. The roof was ^Ym at least three coats
of this, and the side walls, inside ard cut. one or two
9oat«. I guasa I shall h^va to follftp your advica and
cona to tha tar and praral after all. although tha put-

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^ing on or the rtuff seats formiddaa* to 3». I don't
•99 ju8t hor Mrs. Merrlam is going to melt that big
chunk of tar in bar fryinp pan; still there may be eoijs
way of accoenplisHfejg I't, even if we have to us a tha
Iron pot in the flraplace. I know nctMr^ about the
details of aich jobs but should suppose that t>» whole
top opghfc to be covered at one spillii^, instead of put-
ting it on in pancakes in the hope that their borders
would ooze together.

Unless the next election generates a tem-
perature previously unknown at Lagunitas^ there will be
no danger of thj tar runnir^.

Than'^s for location of the improved brid^.
Wa now understand exactly where it is.^ It used to be
swuig off too far to tha scuth^ so that it was mighty
hard to make the turn in a oar the lengtib jff ours.

Glad to know that you and Mrsa Arch are get-
ting reccaTcflell to California and that your experience
at Lagunitas leads you to f ael that thare are worse
places even in Amarica. You had batter salt down a lot

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on ^ of the upper slopes while the Development Com-
pany l8 8ellir« off cheap. By the way. I hadn't heard

of this befora.

Have the f^fdwrdiag in the fern hoU helow

our 8priT« sent up new shoots? You have not said any-
thing about the floirers and wa are wondering whether
they are beginning to bloom yet. We have never been
there in time to see them and for several years have
hai an inward cravii« to behold the MiiHtfiM. LJusfi.,

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iy]^y|fATi4nn^ Icilllantt and numerous others whoee pods
and othar remains have freetad is on our belated arrivals

We are tidcled to know that you and your wife

are thinking of a enmll car* The Merriam fanily has

thoughts in the same direction* The choice seems to be
between the Little Chevrolet at $985 emd the Dodge at
$785« both with cooqplete electric equipment* Both seon
to.be splendid cars but we have not yet been able to
leam which Is the better. Several of our friends have
rec^^ntly purchased the new Dodge t so that we are likely
to know more about them when we return next fall* The

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they cannot afford to spend another wiiter in Washing-
ton without a car.

The time of our arrival at Lagunitas this
Spring ssems pretty definitely fixed. Mrs. IL feels
that she ought to "be there the last week in April in
order to get things well ^©ing before the A. 0. U.

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Chinamaiu But there are certain financial considera-
tions that have a bearing on the datd of departure^

- chief of which ie the monthly saJLaury check » due in
this instance on the first of May* For this reason I

think it

that we shall not set sail until May It

arriving at Lafxinitas on t»h9 4th or 5th* * If any mora
definite information comes to hand. I will let you know,
^e trust that you will not he^ve laft for parts unknown
before our arrivals

With love to you both.

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Hudson Hirer Book '.o.,
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West Hobcksn, N.

Dear Sira:

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If not already sold will you kindly oend
me item 51 California - The Wide lest, price $3.50
as listed in yow catalogue No. 2.

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April I. 1915

Prof. Oharles H. RiQ^f^Jion
Bean of Summer Seasion,

Univ. of <>lif °Pi^tf
Berkeley, Oalil-

Desir Professor Riebart

Very many thanks for ycr.tr coor-
taous letter of ^^rcb 25 just received. My talks for
the Audubon Society a. arranged -.ith >Ir. Pearson,are
not to be restricted to birds by any neans. but -vill
include m^enals as well, and will be rather fully il-
lustrated by lantern slides. I hava not blocked them
out yet. and should find it very difficult to do this
before leavlrig for California the latter part of thi«
month, a? my ti-iie betW39n noir and than is v^ry fully

engaged.

I 'lad surposed t>at the Strwner Session Ve-

gar earlier, bit as it does net I s^no-old oa rlad if
you could arrange for ny tal rs for t>.d Utter part of

June.

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Bear Sirs:

Will you kindly S3nd nfie a copy of your
illustrated ^^talogue, whic>i I trust includes head
forme for bears of yarioijis sizes and prices for
sam©? If this information is not incl^adwl, ^I ^ould
"be glad if you would send me a list of -prices and
such other details as you car. give.

Very truly years.

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Dear Mr. Elliott:

In accordance with my promise

of a f9w da3r8 ago to loan you $350, I am and osirg
herewith my chedr for that amount on the Crocker

Bank

I truet that you

will be abla to purchase tharawith a satisfactory
team and wagon, and that you will succeed in doing
a flourishing and profitable business durir^ the
coming season.

With best wishes to you all.

Very truly yours.

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Lagunitas.
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April 5. 1916

Ifr. W. I. AdaonB, Aceountsiit,

^oitihlionian Institution,
Vaahlt^on, B. 0.

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Herewith I am hflfiding ypu mjf expense ac-

count for Uarch, amoianting to $48. 36* •ni «^»* *^^ ^^^^ ^

lorir« biUfl which I shall ha obliged if you will kindly
pay from the Harriman Fund.

Very truly yourct

AecGDipanying billa:

Univereity of California Press
V. F« Morrison - Books
Hudson Book Co. - Books

$27.00
12.00

12.50
71.50
40.00

iug. Oottschalck « Bear skulls

J. P. Hubrick - Kale Grizzly 8>ull

from Lakina River , Alaska
Washirgton Loan and Trust Co. - Office 50.50

rental for April with telephone

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?®Tfi''' f^l^s^.'^O' Landsewr and Barrow: Sketch as
£. Morrison Par.r Co. Sut plies

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Janitor

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1915

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1 Tifriber Wolf skull

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McCarthy. AlaeJra

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Sear Sheldon:

Whan I wrote you Saturday we were having
a big storm whieh delayed the mails so that yo^^ let-
ter did not reach me until after five o'clodt. shortly
after I had mailed mine to you.

Tcu certainly laeurned mudi of interest in
the Pinacate country and I hope ycu will puhlish an ac-
count of your trip. If you saved a skull of one of those
woodrats we can eacily tall what epecies it 1b.

Glad you hit the desert at the time of flower
bless omir^* It is hard to say whether the deserts after

rain, or the Barren Grounds in s\iiuii9r, of f er the most inag-
nificent display of beautiful colored flowers*

•Outdoor Life* (for February ^ March and April)
contains a series of articles by a guide named Ifont G.
Jones, entitled 'Tb^ Greatest Bear Hunt Ever*. The hunt
took place ahout the end of April and early May, 1914,
between the North ar]d South Forks of Shoshone Riyearj western!

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Wycmir^. The members of the party who csffie from New
York appear to have been Arthur McAleenan^ Jcsajh Mc

Aleenan, John Ifurgatroyd, and Bob Boyd. Thi^y are said

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thirteen bears, of which six «era Griz*

zlies* Bo you happen to know €u^ of these men? I am
most anxious to see the sknlls of the old bears if such
a thing is possible.

I wish it w^re practicable for Urs. UarriAn
and !!i3r8elf to accept yout tempting invitation to visit
you^before leaving for the West* But as we must go to
California the last of Vne month, I fear it is out of

the question this year*

As ever yours.

Mr. Charles Sheldon,

8 West 9th Street,

New York City.

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¥. I. Thayer, Baq. ,

Thay«r Garage, , _ , ._
' San Rafael, Oalif.

Dear Mr. Thayer:

This is nmnly to let you knot that we

eiject to reach California about the first of Ifcy, and
->that you are likely to see me most promptly after our
arriya* I >^op9 therefore that yc.i will hare our car
in first class shi^w. I assume that you have already
put on new brake straps, cleaned out the gas tank and
taken care of the carbon deposit, and that you have

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waBhed out the crank case and differential case irith

kerosene. Would it not "be worth while also to wash

out the transmieeion with kerosene and refill with 600«r?

Did you find the cause of the body squeak?
Perhaps it was due to ^Iry springs, and it may U worth
while to graphite the springs as t^is haa not been done

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is properly diarged.and attend to any other things
about the car which seem to you to need attention.

The absence of the cr has bean a great
deprivation to our f«:nily during t'oe past open win-
ter,and we never mean to be without one again.

With best wishes to Mrs. Thayer and to
your father and brother.

Very truly yours.

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Harry P. !M)ori 8sq[»^

Wilmii^ont

Dalaware.

Wf dear Sir:

Curious accidents haj^pen at times* About

four and a half years ago you wrote n» askir^ if you
might adapt for th8 use of little children some of the
Indian stories in my book of Mewan Myths > This letter

was forwarded to me irx Oalifcmiat where I wm at the
time.- I replied pronjptly under date of September 8,
1910«and supposed that the letter had been mailed to
you at once* But on lookirg over some package of pa-
pers brou^t from California that year, I find your let-
ter with my reply attached t showirg that by some accident
the letter was never mailed* For this please accept my

belated apology* Ify former le ter. new four and a half
years oldt is enclosed herewith*

Tery truly yours<

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