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[stamped] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION [written] 1106 [stamped] WASHINGTON D.C.

[handwritten] July 10, 1855

My Dear Robert

I am glad to learn that your ague has left you; be careful not to start out too soon and bring it all back.

Your account of the booming of Prairie Chickens is very amusing and interesting; and no doubt correct.

Your Mississippi cousin is a valuable relative; encourage her by all means with the mammals. There will be no risk in putting the squirrels heads and (of smaller sp.) in alcohol without cleaning; indeed you had better not attempt this; it takes too much time where you cant boil.

I should be glad to have the Aureola Onuder if you can spare it

I look daily for arrival of a live grizzly bear. brought

when young from the rocky mts. I got an antelope some months ago.

Yours truly

SF Baird

Robt. Kennicott. Ill.