Transcribe Jackson, J. A. Letter to Hornaday, William Temple (1879-09-09)

than for Nat. History :

  The Exposition Building is still there.

The college scheme failed, and nothing else seems to be in the wind.

   As to the "State Zoological Society" -

it is nothing. It is all a fabrication of a superficial young man by name of Boubright, who knows about as much about science as one of your stuffed orangs. He is simply a curiosity col- lecter, uneducated, excessively vain, and simply wants to advertise him- self as Secretary of some institution in order to get green horns through the State to send him specimens which he would place in his own collection. He wanted to be Secre- tary of our </s new > Academy but was rejected because of his general unfitness and because he could not