Transcribe Steele, M. R. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-08-30)

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[page 2] I was much sur- prised to find that the specimen, tho charged the highest price, $5.00, was deprived of this it's characteristic sponge as shown in the cuts in Wyville Thompson's Depths of the Sea & in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly. These are left only the cables, with in- crusting corals. Cert- ainly this is not fair; and I shall not be satisfied, un- til tou send an en- tire & perfect speci- men of hyalonema-