Transcribe Haast, Julius von. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-01-10)

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added some If I do not wish to sell any of them, but you can send me in return for them in ethnological specimens, what they are worth to you. In the same manner I shall send you a collection of Dinornis remains containing at least 2 skeletons incomplete that they can be articulated besides a series representing nearly all the known species & I wish that you will send me for them also good other logical specimens prehistoric & recent. In such a kenner our accounts will not be mixed up. - I can not yet tell you what species the 2 skeletons will be, one of them however is most probably [Dinornris camarinus] & the other ^an^ order of the middle sized birds. - They will however not be so perfect as the specimens I sent to New York. In fact if you