Transcribe Baird, Spencer Fullerton. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-04-12)

47,438. BOARD Col. S.C. LYFORD, War Dept. Chairman Adm'l THORNTON J. JENKINS, Navy Dept. Hon. A.W. TAYLOR, Treasury Department. Hon. JOHN EATON, Interior " Dr. C.F. MACDONALD, Post Office " WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Esq., Agricultural Dept. Prof. SPENCER F. BAIRD, Smithsonian Institution

        and Commission of Food Fishes.

WM. A. CAINDEY, Secretary. Col. JOSEPH S. CONRAD, U. S. A., Disb. Officer. International Exhibition, 1876 BOARD ON BEHALF OF U. S. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS, Washington. April 12 187 6

Dear Professor,

      Thanks for your letter of the 10th,

& your willingness to lend us some aid in the matter of the collection. Unless I have an ^actual^ appropriation, however, made available at a subsequent period, say the 1st of July, I could not borrow the money to which you refer. Perhaps, however, you can make use of enough of the ^money^ to cover the cost of the batch of skeletons which you forwarded some time ago; & for which, if we get no appropriation we will furnish you entirely from our duplicates that will answer the same purpose to you as the money. Sincerely Yours, Spencer Baird Prof. Henry A. Ward Rochester N Y