BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
Berkeley Street, 
Boston, Mass., J On . 8 , 
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My dear Brewster, 
I have lust received your two com¬ 
munications and feel that the matter cannot 
pass over without further acknowledgment. I 
feel deeply obliged to you for your remarkably 
generous conduct in this matter, and shall be 
only too glad if some day you give me the oppor¬ 
tunity to return the obligation. I entirely 
agree with you that the dismounting of the 
birds would perhaps more or less do away with 
the evidence of their being Wilson's types, and 
I shall be extremely careful not to do anything 
with them which you do not first approve of. I 
shall take your letter os a guide with regard 
to what to do. You may rest assured that they 
shall not be dismounted or the present condi¬ 
tion interfered with until you have been noti- 
