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Cambridge, Jan. 5, 1903. 

 Dear Mr. Henshaw, — Enclosed please find a copy of that portion of my will 

 which relates to my natural history collections. 



As I cannot use them any more nor take that care of them which such objects 

 demand, I hereby offer them at once to the Museum of Comparative Zoology on the 

 terms set forth in the enclosed section of my will. 



Yours very truly, 



Samuel H. Scddder. 

 Article 6. 



Will of Samuel H. Scudder. Dated Feb. 23, 1897. 



6. I give my natural history collections of whatever nature, and my cabinets to 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology in said Cambridge, on condition that, within 

 six months after receiving the same, the said Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 shall give to the said Boston Society of Natural History such New England speci- 

 mens of Orthoptera and Lepidoptera mounted on pins or in bottles, excepting 

 types, as the said Boston Society of Natural History may select ; and on the further 

 condition that, after the said Museum of Comparative Zoology shall have selected 

 from the series of fossil insects one specimen of each species (as arranged by 

 me) the said Museum shall give to the United States National Museum at Washing- 

 ton in the District of Columbia, the privilege of selecting for its own use, a second 

 specimen of each species, when there is in my collection such a second specimen. 



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Cambridge, June 3, 1903. 

 Dear Mr. Brewster, — I saw Dr. Woodworth a few days ago, and turned 

 over to him for the Museum the Bryant collection of birds, which has been here 

 on deposit for the last few years. The gift of the collection to the Museum is 

 unconditional and absolute, and the conditions of deposit, stated in our last letters 

 on the subject, are therefore no longer in force. With the skins are of course 

 included all the tin cases in which they are contained. 



Yours very truly, 



Henry B. Bigelow, 



W. S. Bryant, by H. B. B. 



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Royal College op Science, London, 



South Kensington, S. W., 7th April, 1903. 



My dear Professor Agassiz, — I hope that you had a very pleasant voyage 

 back to the States. 



I have just sent off to you at the Museum the set of samples of Funafuti slices, 

 which I hope will reach you safely. I had to submit them to the Royal Society 

 Coral-Reef Committee, and they at once agreed to my sending them on the under- 



