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Did you ever meet Vinal Edwards of food's Hole?He has been there ever 
sinoe Baird's time and perhaps before.He used to captain the Blue Wing when C. 
H-was there,and was rated as Zoological Collector to the Fish Commission.He has 
just died.If you ever heard of him it was probably in connection with birs of 
which he had a small collection.Among a few raretiss he had an ivory gull col- 
ledted at Wood’s Hole.What will beoome of his bird oolleotion-perhaps there were 
as many as SCO of them-I do not know.Nearly all-perhaps all-were mounted,and not 
very badly either.Sam Henshaw might want to buy them,and he could easily find 
out all he wants to know eother from Forbush or Bangs.They oould probably be had 
cheap,and as a matter of fact they would not be worth very much sinoe most of 
them were common.I think all of them were collected at or near Wood's Hole.id- 
wards was a very intelligent and nice old fellow,and knew the waters of his regio 
better than any living man. 
Was down to Hart's office the other morning, and talked with him for a full 
hour about the old times when we were boys.It is in a way pathetic to see him 
hard at work,as indeed he has been for many years,still accumulating data and 
storing it away in his safes with a view to utilising it a little later which 
time will never come.He does not now work evenings much but he is hard at it 
Sundays,and is always complaining of laok of time bo do this,that,and the other 
because of the pressure of work.Sven now he has suffioient material stored away 
to keep him busy lioking into shape for publication for fifty years.Foresee is 
just like him in her fondness for work but not attall like him in desiring to 
immediate 
hoard away her aocummulated facts.She is all forApublication.I receive a lecture 
from her: every time I go there because of my laziness but I fear that the good 
seed she would sow falls on barren ground. 
Sincerely YOurs 
