Transcribe Hyatt, Alpheus. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-04-11)

ybg BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, Berkeley, cor. of Boylston St. Boston, Mass. April 11 1876 Dear Prof. Ward

    Your letter of Apr 8

and Postal card of Apr 10 are both before me, The first is very satisfactory the latter as my friend Carpenter would say is "beastly". As soon as I found you were anxious about your Gorgonial I named all I could and to my surprise found I could give a title to nearly all of the Florida forms. The Cape of Good Hope specimens were beyond me and not one could I get an idea of. If I had a chance to go to Salem perhaps this could be done, but this would be remote.