Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to S.S. Haldeman, [ca. 1850?] Nov. 13.

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Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to S.S. Haldeman, [ca. 1850?] Nov. 13.

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Asks for specimens for a monograph on "etheostomoids" (Etheostoma, genus of fish [darters]; never published as such?); notes that he is also collecting specimens to advance the studies of his son (Alexander, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1849); apologizes for dictating the letter, owing to the state of his eyes.

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