Dictated 
Mr 
Cambridge, Mass., 
P. M. Chapman, 
American Museum of Natural History, 
New York City. 
May2,1890. 
Dear Mr. Chapman,— 
This is not to be underitood as an answer to 
your kind and very interesting letter of April 27th., to which I 
will reply more informally as soon as I can find timeiCri must 
send you a few words with regard to the set of photographs which 
will go to,you with this. They all relate to our trip on the 
Suwanee river excepting a very few taken at the market in Charles¬ 
ton, S.C. To show the black vultures which, as you doubtless know, 
congregate there daily. I am having an enlargement made of the 
best of these buzzard pictures, the one with the four birds in the 
street, two of them squabbling over a long piece of entrail. If 
it comes out well, I shall probably get a number of copies, one of 
which I shall be happy to send you, if you would like it. As to 
the Suwanee pictures, you probably will not recognize all or in¬ 
deed many of them;; but,m when I am in New York, I will look them 
