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exhibition specimens away and expect before this you 

 have heard of the safe arrival of Prof Goode. I feel quite 

 an interest in how the show will take on the other side. 

 If we do not get a good account on this side from the 

 newspapers you must write me about it, or, better still, 

 come down and tell us all about it. It is now our turn 

 to have the fish commission down this way. Province- 

 town, Gloucester and Woods Holl must be about worked 

 out and I know there must be some new fish in Eastport 

 waters that require looking after. * * * Do you ever 

 hear anything from Henry E. Dresser? Did he ever 

 finish his birds of Europe ? He sent me thirty-six num- 

 bers and I have lately written him but as yet get no 

 answer. I should be pleased to hear of his prosperity 

 and that the book was finished and made to pay. You 

 wrote me last year that there was a prospect of the 

 Water Birds (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway) being pub- 

 lished by the Cambridge people ; I hope they may do so. 

 Is there anything new ? I have added another bird to 

 my list taken at Grand Manan — a Fulmar Petrel. I 

 expect they are often about the fishing grounds only not 

 looked after and hence not discovered." 



" I called when in New York," Mr. Boardman says 

 in a letter written at Boston under date of May 29, 1882, 

 "to see Dr. Holden at the American Museum. He said 

 they wanted a good taxidermist. I told him about Mr. 

 Webster of Rochester ; that I had recommended him to 

 you and that I thought he was partially engaged to you. 

 I hope you may have him in Washington and from what 

 I saw of his work at the meeting of taxidermists at Bos- 

 ton last winter, think he is just the artist for the National 

 Museum, who with Hornaday, Eucas and Marshall would 



