Transcribe Lucas, Fred A. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1882-03-04)

yet, and besides until finished I can not tell what it has cost to be mounted. You ask me if Rhinoceros goes to Cambridge, a question which if I did not ask you I most certainly intended to.. I now ask if you wish the Rhinocerous packed and sent to Cambridge, freight prepaid. I agree with you in thinking $125. & $85. too much for Shark and Ray, and will enclose to you estimates of their cost. Bailly and DeKempeneer were put from Osteology to Taxidermy in order that they might do something that might bring in money, and because it would at the same time give DeK. a chance to improve a little in his Taxidermy, and you wrote that if he was going to Australia he would need to understand that art. In all matters of importance I have consulted Mr. Howell before going ahead. Regarding mounting skeletons, Gueret can supply the demand amply, the only trouble is to keep the men going at what is likely to prove profitable in the end. You go away for a year with only general instructions as to what is to be done in your absence, and leaving to your assistants the responsibility of doing what in their judgement seems for the best. Then if anything is done which seems to you at a