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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary

G. BROWN GOODE, Assistant Secretary,
in charge of U. S. National Museum

Washington, December 31, 1891.

Professor O. C. Marsh,

Honorary Curator, Department of Vertebrate Fossils,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Professor Marsh:-

Your letter of December 26, addressed to Mr. W. V. Cox, has been
received. I note what you say regarding Mr. Peterson, but regret that I am
unable to comply with your wishes as to holding the money which would have
been paid to him, since the regulations do not permit the retention of money
in connection with contingent appointments. This being the case, the em-
ployment of another man in his place will necessarily have to come up as a
new matter. I regret slightly that you did not let us know at the beginning
of the month that Mr. Peterson had left you.

I believe that Mr. Gibb is still with you. As it happens, I can find
no authorization of his employment, and it occurs to me that you can without
inconvenience tell me in a few words what work he is now doing for the Mu-

New Haven, Conn., January 4, 1892.

Dr. F. W. True,

Curator in charge, National Museum.

Dear Mr. True,

Your letter of December 31 was duly received, and I reply at once, as you request.

In 1890, I made a definite arrangement with Prof. Goode about placing on exhibition in the National Museum a large series of vertebrate fossils, collected in the West by my division of the U. S. Geological Survey. Prof. Goode, on the part of the museum, agreed to have a large case built as soon as possible, and to pay the salary of Mr. Hatcher, ($150. per month) while he was preparing the specimens for exhibition, either at New Haven or Washington as the work could best be done. If Mr. Hatcher should not be able to continue at the work, I was to have the privilege of replacing him by one or more other assistants. Mr. Hatcher began work December 1st, 1890, and continued two months, when I was obliged to send him West. Mr. Gibb and Mr. Peterson took his place, and continued the work, mainly at New Haven, but Mr. Gibb went to Washington with Mr. Lucas last July, and aided him in putting the first instalment of the collection on exhibition in time for the Geological Congress. Since then, Gibb and Peterson have continued the work here until December 1st, when the latter left, and went to

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New Haven, Conn.; March 23, 1892.

F. W. True, Esq.,

Curator-in-Charge.

Dear Sir: -

Your letter of yesterday is at hand. I regret that
Mr. Hedderman's appointment was not made in time for the middle of this month,
and I should now like to have it arranged so that he can begin April 1st, and
continue for the remainder of the ~~fiscal~~ year, at least, otherwise I cannot
secure his services. An early answer will oblige

Yours, very truly,

( Signed ) O. C. Marsh,

Honorary curator.

S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary
G. BROWN GOODE, Assistant Secret
in charge of U. S. National

UNITED STATES NATION

(Washington, March 31, 1892.

Prof. O. C. Marsh,
Yale College,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter of 23d. instant, in regard to
the employment of Mr. William Hedderman, I have to state that,
I have recommended to the Secretary his appointment for a period
of three months, April 1 to July 1, at $65. per month, and said
recommendation has been approved.

I have this day written to Mr. Hedderman, instructing
him to report to you for duty on April 1.

S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary
G. BROWN GOODE, Assistant Secretary
in charge of U. S. National

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Washington,

February 23, 1893.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

Honorary Curator of the
Department of Vertebrate Fossils,
Yale College,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Professor Marsh:

The Annual Report of the Museum is now being prepared, and it is desirable to obtain, as early as possible, a report from the Curator of each Department, for embodiment therein. Most of these reports have already been submitted, and it would afford me pleasure to receive from you, within the next week or two, a review of the work accomplished in the Department of Vertebrate Fossils, in accordance with the letter of the Assistant Secretary, dated July 1, 1892.

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Washington,

February 23, 1893.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

Honorary Curator of the

New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Professor Marsh:

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Washington,

August 30, 1893.

Dear Professor Marsh:-

I regret to inform you that it will be necessary to fur-
lough Mr. Gibb, who is now your assistant after September 15th, on
account of the reduction of our appropriations. I trust that it
will be possible to give you assistance again after a time, but at
present we are obliged to cut down the Museum force in many direc-
tions, in order to avoid a deficiency at the end of the year.

I enclose a letter addressed to Mr. Gibb.