BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY,

BERKELEY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS., Feb. 25,

18 90.

Dear Professor Marsh,

Your letter of February 24th
has just been received. The skulls of the five
Galipagos tortoises have been received and they
were acknowledged to Dr. Bauer, and his receipt was
destroyed. There was nothing on the box which indi-
cated that it had come from you. This letter is
of course a sufficient receipt to you.

I feel much gratified at your high opinion of
my little book on the "Genesis of the Arietidae":

BERKELEY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS., Oct. 31, 1893.

Dear Professor Marsh,

In reply to yours of the 28th, I regret to say that it is hopeless for me to think of going to the meeting of the Academy at Albany. I can never be absent, as a rule, from Boston at that time of year. I doubly regret this on Mr. Beecher's account, since I could undoubtedly read his paper with more earnestness, on account of my special interest in his researches, than almost any one he may be able to get. Please use my name to the utmost in praise of Beecher's work, whether it be essential or not to further the introduction of the paper. I have the highest opinion of every thing he has done, and especially of his researches represented by the paper on Trilobites.

BERKELEY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS.,

July 14, 1896.

Dear Professor Marsh, -

I have just received the drawings of
Triarthrus Becki and also the specimen of the
antenna. I desire to express the great grati-
fication of the Society at the reception of
this specimen and the drawings, and to say that
they will be placed upon exhibition as soon as
possible. It illustrates a very important
point in structure, and fills out a noticeable
blank in our exposition in the Synoptic room.

by H.B.

Dictated.