Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-02-25)

ceived there for Prof. Ward but we do not know anything about it, and have not tried to get it ,came yesterday." </u Friday >,

  W.ell, I looked for the cans to come to

</u my > address by all means, if they came atall. and to the hotel; for they might come a dozen times to you, and I would not be able to get them, </u especially > in New York.

    I am very sorry we missed getting them,

and cannot help thinking it very unbusiness- like in who ever sent them to not send a single line of advice concerning them. Regular Hamburg style! I see very clearly that I made a big mistake in not following up even the faint trace I had of "a package" for you. But we are getting along very well without them, as we had a large round tin can with a cover made in Bridgetown, (for $2), and we have bought 3 square 5 - gallon tin kerosene cans @ 6d each, and are using them to good advantage.

    We brought our Barbados specimens along

with us, all boxed for shipping home, and will keep them here until we have two or three more boxes to send home.

     </u Well, > this island bids fair to turn out

well. We have got but little in the 4 1/2 days we have been here, as we have been busy hunting up men about the Orinoco, and endeavoring to get all </u possible > infor- mation on the Manatee question before making a start. I must say that I feel more hopeful of getting at least one, </s towo > two or three specimens than I ever did before, - in fair I feel confident now that we will be successful in that particular.