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Lancaster, Mass

June 7th, 1902.

Dear Mr.Bigelow,

Your mother will, no doubt, have told
you of the correspondence I had with her last winter about Mr. Howe’s
work on the bird collection, and Mr. Howe writes me that he is to see
you about it as soon as you get back. He wishes me to send either to
you or to him a list of the mistakes which I have discovered in order
that he may rectify them before leaving Cambridge for the summer. I
have replied that I think it better for you and him to meet me at the
Museum so that we can look over the collection together and decide what
is best to be done. I have suggested the forenoon of June 12th, as the
time for this meeting as that is almost the only day of this month when
I can visit Cambridge, although I might perhaps arrange to go there on
the 20th or 21st, if the 12th will not suit your convenience.

Mr. Howe seems to think that the mistakes of identification
which ho has made are of trifling im-portance and that many of them
relate to matters covering which ornithologists may hold different
opinions, but some of them which I have noticed are really inexcusable
on the part of one who has been supposed to possess a fair technical kn
knowledge of North American birds and this fact, taken in connection
with the large number of mistakes (upwards of thirty, if I remember
rightly) which I found in looking through only ten or a dozen of the
trays, has led me to fear that more or less similar errors will be
brought to light when the whole collection is critically examined.

2 .

In addition to verifying all the identifications of the specimens it
will be also necessary, I should say, to make sure that the data on the
original labels have been carefully and accurately transcribed, al¬
though I have no reason, at present, to distrust that part of Mr. Howe's
work.

It will give me pleasure, of course, to aid both you &. Mr.

Howe in these matters to the full extent of my ability but, unfortu¬
nately, I shall not be able to give much time to it before July.

Yours sincerely

William Brewster.

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(Mr. Henry Bryant Bigelow,

251 Commonwealth Ave., Boston).

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