Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-02-07)

                     2                               Feb. 7, 1879

nine assistants, collecting </u birds> only. They will visit Salangore but </u not > Borneo. Davison says they have plenty of birds eggs and will soon be ready to sell duplicates. If some of your energetic assistants had sent me your Catalogue of Foreign Birds Eggs I might now come to an arrangement with Davison for getting as many eggs as you want at your own price. But since my instructions merly say "Pay 1/5 prices in the Catalogue "and I haven't the Cat- alogue - (& neither has Dr Dennys.) I am not likely to do much with eggs.

    Davison says "A naturalist" in London

wrote to him last year offering 10. pounds each for 10 large Skeletons of </u Gavialis Gaugeticus >. but he won't tell me the fellow's name. I never sent any skeletons. Davison is very much impressed with the magnitude of your estab- lishment, but I don't know whether or not he knows how often I have borrowed money of strangers. I am quite pleased to hear that M. Bailey has an opportunity to make $4. or $5. pr day once more, and that he will after all succeed in making his pile of $10,000 out of the "God-damned - blue- belly - Yawkey!" I have no doubt he