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BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
Berkeley Street, 
Boston, Mass., cT Sill • X * 1 QQ9L • 
H 
V/illiam Brev/ster ,"Esq., 
Boar Sir, 
I thank you in the Society's 
name for your proposed gift of the fifteen 
birds supposed to be Wilson's types, and desire 
to add,in reply to your propositions for their 
preservation, that we agree to take measures 
for their storage and preservation which shall 
be approved by you, the approval to be consid¬ 
ered a necessary part of the donation. Mr. 
Batchelder, who is present and has seen this 
letter, agrees to make a settlement with you 
which shall be satisfactory to you. 
Yours respectfully 
Curator. 
