5676. NATURAL HISTORY, Elk and deer.—[continued].
You give me hopes of being able to procure for me some of the big
bones. * * * A specimen of each of the
several species of bones now to be found, is
to me the most desirable object in natural history.
And there is no expense of package or
of safe transportation which I will not gladly
reimburse to procure them safely. Elk horns
of very extraordinary size, or anything else
uncommon, would be very acceptable.—
To James Steptoe. Washington ed. i, 323.
Ford ed., iii, 62.
(1782)
