and how to prepare skins. However if we should employ him he will be glad to receive any further instructions which you may see fit to give.

He would be willing to work on half to full time, keep track of time spent etc. so I would judge that $40 to $75 per month could be spent to advantage. I could oversee and keep tab on the work and you could arrange the financial part of it to suit yourself.

I do not need to tell you of the great variety of topographic and other conditions effecting [sic] the fauna only that the more one travels here the more he realizes it.

I send you a list of the fauna of the country as nearly complete as Mr. Thorne and I can make it offhand. It is, of course, very incomplete as our observations have necessarily been so. Some things in the list are,