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Smithsonian
Washington Oct. 20. 56

Dear Robert
I was truly glad to hear of
your success in taking the prizes,
and still more of the honorable
and just dispositon of them I
wish they were ten times as many

I want the striped squirrels
or Spermophilis very much to con-
vince the skeptical that Dr Hoy
was not wrong when he called
them carnivorous. The Franklin's
Marmot is the most Bloodthirsty
fellow I ever saw. I would also
like all the different squir-
rels, Fox, black, gray - red:
particularly the two former. Any
live wild mice, moles, or
shrews, weasels - the like would
be acceptable.

Please get me just as many
more Arvicolae in alcohol as
you can. I have not half enough
from Illinois. I worked at

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J. Kennicott Brenton Collections