in reply please refer to CDW 
and date of this letter. 
SUBJECT: 
Allotment . 
Address all convmunicatiohii to 
Director, U. S. Geological Survey^ 
Washington, D. C." 
PMB 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. c, Marcii 23, 1905. 
Dr» F« ¥• True , 
U« S« National Museum, 
Washington, D. C . 
Dear Dr. True: 
I have been considering your letter of 
March 7, in relation to the paleo-vertebrat e work being car- 
ried on by the Survey • 
As you ar@ probably aware, we have three of Professor 
Marshes volumes under way* I find that they will take so much 
money this year that we cannot make any appropriation from the 
limited fund (|lO,000) available for paleontology. 
I should like very much to aid in paying your field and 
traveling expenses, if it were practicable to do so. You 
might have a talk v/ith Dr. R. S. Woodward, President of the 
Carnegie Institution, and see if he ¥/ould favor making a grant 
of five or six hundred dollars for the work. 
Director. 
