^ alexandek WILSON. xliii 
stating his oharaot mentioning Wilson’s desires, 
mending him a '‘?'i“^''®™ents, and strongly recom- 
m that imports f eminently qualified to be employed 
datory letter \ cnterprize. In this recommen- 
himself, application from Wilson 
^ewofhisextcnsivTp'ianr'''’ “ ^ 
To His Excellency ’Thomas Jeffeuson, President of 
the United States. 
ooUccting'SS ‘''o«o several years, in 
With the^drsl: r""""’" oatlire, 
United States of AmeiWr'fo VeT^ Oinithology of the 
‘7 ” r"’"”' ’ “■■■ 
oan only he taken froin r representations of these 
drilled, I had ppinti l . ’'“tiire, or from birds newly 
Uittshurgto tlieML”"-^’'?'"’,'*'”" river, from 
'o contimm Orleans, and 
I had ol j ‘'y 1“'><1 in return to Philadel- 
Bartra'm nf ‘■■onipauiou and assistant, Mr 
'roll as zooloirv knowledge of botany, as 
o^ the voyaee^^’ 1 °" enabled me to make the best 
‘’^ose dep Jrtmem ^kecimens in both 
taken on the ®^‘^*ohes of these were to have been 
preservation subjects put in a state of 
Pormit. -in’ onr drawings from, as time would 
*0 begin,,; «ed “> set out from Pittsburg about 
September ^ expected to reach Kew Orleans 
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