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[printed letterhead]
No. [written] 1678 [printed] Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.

[written]
A part of a Zoological Museum
will be a source of skulls & skel-
etons of mammals & other ver-
tebrata. You cant have too
many. A hundred ^skulls of each will
not be a superfluity.

Very truly yours
S.F. Baird

Rob. Kennicott
Chicago

P.S. You can live in Washington
for about 30 dollars a month
to include board, washing, &
Possibly less. – not much however