From W. W. Cheshire   15 December 1881

Prof. Charles Darwin. | England.

Please accept from the undersigned, who is one of your friends and readers of this Continent, the enclosed photograph.¹

It represents the breast bone of a wild goose, into which, at right angles to the vertical section, had been shot a bone arrow head 9 inches long. It grew fast in the aperture it made and formed quite a callous as you will see represented in the picture.

Will you be kind enough to acknowledge the receipt of it?²

Very Respectfully | W. W. Cheshire. | Supt of Schools