Transcribe Lucas, F. A. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1882-03-03)

everything was tumbled in pell mell. Have taken for Cambridge Macropus major, M. Rufus, one each of the smaller Kangaroos and other mammals and they shall be proceeded with in due season. Will you please send the Marsupial Volume of Waterhouse by mail ay once? I know the descriptions are carefully disguised, but think I can hunt down some of the species. So far contributions to the Bulletin by me are as follows, How to rough out skeletons, A much-travelled Walrus (3 illustrations), Osteological Abnormalities (7 cuts), Answers to two correspondents, Reviews of New Eng;and Bird Life and How to Collect Insects, Common names in Natural History, A level head (1 cut) and half a dozen brief notes. I think that there should certainly be an index to the contents and have so held from the first. Likewise the paging should be consecutive and not run from 1 to 16 in each number. What do you think of taking suitable advertisements? They will be an aid to getting the Bulletin entered as second class matter. Have read over the regulations regarding matter of the second class and it seems to me somewhat difficult to squeeze in a paper circulating from a thousand upwards and having only about a hundred and fifty </s could > regular