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United States district attorney to seize it as smuggled 

 from old Indians without paying duty ; or else as a 

 Fenian weapon intended for invading New Brunswick. 

 I will ask Prof. Henry to let me send you a lot of showy 

 shells and birds to trade for this and other purposes. I 

 hope you will find out all the shell heap localities and 

 dig all you can ; there will be plenty left for me to do 

 when I come up again. I intend to make a specialty of 

 this subject and want to work it out thoroughly. Note 

 all 3'ou can about thickness and succession of beds ; 

 interpolation of gravel; position of best remains," etc. 



In a letter dated Washington, November 22, 1869, Prof. 

 Baird writes : ' ' Ridgway is now hard at work upon the 

 North American hawks and is doing a good work. He 

 finds a species like the European Merlin, but differing 

 both from that and from the Pigeon Hawk. I will show 

 it to you when you come. Write soon and let me know 

 when we may expect you. I hope you will arrange so as 

 to pay us a good visit on your way south." Writing to 

 Mr. Boardman, who was then in Florida, January 27, 

 1871, Prof. Baird says: " The fish bill has passed the 

 House and has a good chance of going through the 

 Senate so that you may yet be called upon to furnish 

 ofl&cial information of what you know about fishes and 

 you will please be prepared." To this letter a postscript 

 is added from Mrs. Baird : "I send a handkerchief left 

 here, thinking you may want it. — M. H. C. B." 



" I would like very much," Prof. Baird writes from 

 Woods Holl, Mass., July 25, 1871, "to 'knock off' 

 work here and go with you up Princeton way to shoot 

 young ducks ; but I rather think I had better stick to 

 my business the present summer, hoping that perhaps I 



