HUN N EM AN & BALCII 
Counsellors at Caw 
504-507 MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING 
60 STATE STREET 
CARLETON HUNNEMAN 
FRANCIS N. BALCH 
TELEPHONES 
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5005 
MAIN 
CABLE ADDRESS, HUNBALCH 
boston, 6th January, 1910. 
Mr. William Brewster, 
145 Brattle Street, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Brewster: 
I ought to have answered your interesting letter of December 
23d before but during the week after Christmas what little time I could 
spare was taken up with the meeting of the zoologists while after the 
ending of that meeting the New Year's business had to, be done. 
I wish I could see you to talk over the nomenclature matter. 
I daresay you have heard what happened at this meeting. There was quite 
a lively scene but it seems to me everything came out very well and that 
probably no great harm can have been done while probably some good has 
About the brant and Mr. Forbush, I should be very glad to be 
shown that I was mistaken about him and I willingly admit that it is 
possible I may have been. My information is largely second-hand although 
it comes from a thoroughly reliable man. To make me think that Mr. Por¬ 
bush had acted in a fair and straightforward manner I should have to have 
some kind of rather solemn denial from him and also an explanation of the 
incidents on v/hich my information was based. In other v/ords, the man who 
told me may have been mistaken or may have misunderstood, but he is not a 
liar. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Porbush’s attitude year before 
last and was present when he made the admission I mentioned in my last 
letter. 
I forgot to tell you one or two things he is said to have 
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done. He exhibited a stuffed brant to the committee and told them it was 
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