Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-03-22)

ybg </em Society of American Taxidermists > FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART. Office of the Executive Committee. </em Washington, D, C., > Mar 22nd 1883 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. " 29 My dear Professor:

    To save my soul I can't think of any

fertile subject for a Bulletin article. I have actually racked my brains to find an answer to the question "What </u can > I write about ?". I </u want > to help you out with something. but hang me if I know what it can be. If you can suggest a topic that is within my range I will try to hammer something out of it. I am completely stuck for once, I confess !

    I have to write an average of six letters per

evening on a/c of the S. A. T. besides devoting all day Sunday to the same delightful recreation. I am getting so that I think daily & dream nightly of the Exhibition, & almost nothing else. I will be glad when the strain is over. There will be 32 Exhibitors, and I think at least 400 entries. Everything is going well, and I think we will have things so arranged that the affair will go off very smoothly and comfortably, if we are not worked </u quite > to death. I hope Wm Critchley will be there. We will have only Saturday & Sunday in which to unpack and get everything in order, and it will take </u sharp work >. I also hope your boys will have some fine large mammals ready. Cannot you borrow those specimens of Bienstadt. - Mt. Sheep,