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other having them crossed
([drawing] more or less so). The toads
are both the same, though
differently colored. Bufo americanus

It is perfectly proper that
you should charge the S. I. with
the amount of your necessary ex-
penses. We are not very flush
of money at present. the fund
for Nat. Hist. operations having
been pretty well run out with
some enormous california freight
bills (146.00 in one week!): Still
your operations must not be crip-
pled. Suppose you take 20 or
25 dollars as a limit for the
present year. Will that answer
your views: let me know as
to this.

I have been delayed
with your apparatus for want
of Lino for bags. which I cannot
get here. I hope soon to have some
and then will immediately
forward the traps. I have
ordered one of the jointed