WCP691

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ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM,

TRING,

HERTS, ENGLAND.

August 10th 1903

Dear Sir

I have shown your letters re collector in Cuba etc. to Mr. Rothchild.¹ We cannot at present engage another collector for this museum, as too much material is coming in, but should be pleased, if your young friend² would communicate with us when he has succeeded [2] in reaching Cuba or another tropical place. I do not think that there is a collector of Coleoptera at present in England who would advance money, unless it be Mr. Schill³ at Didsbury, Manchester.

Most collectors are nowadays specialists who take only certain families.

Mr Schaus,⁴ a rich bachelor, lives at Trentham House, Twickenham. He confines himself to American Heterocera. He has collected himself in Mexico [3] Brazil, Cuba etc.

They are building railways now in Cuba. Perhaps your young friend, who is a skilled workman, may find life cheap there, as he will be useful acquisition to a [illeg.].

Believe me, | Yours faithfully | K Jordan⁵ [signature]