RK-367

[printed letterhead] No. [written] 898 [printed] Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. [written] July 8 [printed] 18 [written] 57

Dear Robert

The box of specimens came a day or two ago, and that for Mr. Binney will go off today I have not unpacked the alcoholics. The mole appears a true S. argentatus. the Arvicola is A. pinetorum.

Baron Ostensacken says that the long legged diptera Tipula are better without legs, than nothing. He advises all diptera and hymenoptera to be pinned dry.

Yours truly SF Baird

Robt. Kennicott

[page turned written in left margin] Toxicophii is true piscivorus