WCP2409

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE,

WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.

July 2^d. 1889

Dear Dr Wallace,

I have received your book¹ and we will place it in the library. I have not yet had a chance to read it, but I hope to soon. I am glad to see you picture in it.

We have had a pleasant winter and a long summer unusually two weeks longer than usual. Professor [illeg.] is just back from H[illeg.], where he has been successful in getting a record of the [2 words illeg.] on the initial stages [2] of the alligators eggs. He found [3 words illeg.] the eggs had developed on the way home which several stages were just beyond his recovery.

I have found in our [illeg.] that you were [illeg.] of [2 words illeg.] and several pure white [2 words illeg.]

With best wishes and thanks for the book[.]

very truly yours | Franklin Carter² [signature]

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