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say that we expect no fees from
correspondent members other than
in their facilities they can send us
in specimens, facts, communications
and whatever may be of interest
to us to receive or know - [pecuni?]
ary there is none. Our President
Dr Jeffries Wynan is our only
member that suggests himself
to me as interested in mammals.

I do not wonder you of Northern
Illinois who did so splendidly
should lament the ignorance
and perverseness of Central and
Southern Illinois. But is it not far
worse for our Winthrops, our [illegible]
our Kirtlands and our Everetts, who
can enter no real plea and have
not even the excuse, poor as it is,
of ignorance - to have done no
better than the long and [illegible]
men you speak of. I could ex
cuse them, while I lemented
their short sightedness - but more