Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Bickmore, Albert Smith (1882-09-02)

                             Ward's Natural Science Establishment
                        No. 2 College Avenue opposite University
                                          Rochester, N.Y. Sept. 2

Dear Porf. Biskmore,

    O had my </u contracts >  all made in

duplicate, on Wednesday but failed to see you before you left Montreal. Now I enclose them for you to present to Mr. Jesup and Mr. Colgate for their signatures.

  You will observe that both of these contracts leave

unprovided for some species which may be oversight of Dr. Holder or myself, have been overlooked in the printed lists. I have no great apprehensions from this in the Jesup order, although in one half of it the Birds, - I have not given any attention to your collec- -tion, but only to the list which Dr. Holder has given me to fill. But I have to call your attention to the Colgate order in this connection.

  My original (</u printed >) list of the  Inadrurmana

was a copy of that of Dr. Gray's British Museum Catalogue of </u 1870 >.To this you and I added in </u writing >, four new forms which came up while (in July) we were considering the list. Since then I have studied, read, and corresponded widely on Inadrumana. I have also received several consid- -erable consignments of these skins. How I have