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in the army I introduced him to Dr
Newberry who gave him certain inform
ation he wanted etc etc then we
talked a little further and we
drank some ale to will's astonish
at my drinking, [written between lines]
ment / --He evidently thinking that nat-
uralists somehow lived on bird skins & snakes.
I subsequently demonstrated to his satis-
faction their capacity for the consumation
of Bivalve mollurca as well--
So I went to bed rather late -- Monday
morning I worked on spinmophiles and
in the afternoon Will Walker came
to the S. I. and as Miss Gould and Lucy
Baird were over here and wanted an
escort in visiting the Gov not[underln] Greenhouse
and Navy Yards we went with them
--While out [word crsd out]at the greenhouse we met Judge Skinner
&d an daughter of chicagn with Miss Jayne
a sister of Mrs Drumhull -- as Lucy
Baird wished to become acquainted
with the latter of whom she'd heard
through one of her friends I was
glad to have the opertunity of introducing
them -- Judge Skinner somewhat
to my surprise expressed much in-
terest in me and my operations
and especially in getting a museum
in Chicogo -- He asked me to write
to him about it etc. As[word crsd out] We were
rather late in getting back to
Prof Bairds - tho this was Miss
Goulds