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identifier/filename
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371-00171b
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title
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Letter, R. A. Cooley to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, Mar. 21
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description
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Typewritten letter, 2 pages , attached to Apr. 11, 1905, from R. A. Cooley to Lawrence Bruner, "I am writing this morning to ask…"
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Transcription
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The Montana Agricultural Experiment Station Bozeman. Mont. Department of Entomology R. A. Cooley, Entomologist State Entomologist Apr 7 Ans'd March 21, 1905. Prof. Lawrence Bruner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Dear Prof. Bruner: I am writing this morning to ask if you have an advanced student or graduate student of ornothology who is enough of a taxidermist to set up our common birds with reasonable skill and rapidity. The situation is this: The Butte Electric Railway Company in Butte, Montana has a park known as the Columbia Gardens, which is a pleasure resort at the end of one of their suburban lines. In the pavilian they are accumulating a collection of plants, animals, minerals, etc for the education of their school children and for an attraction for the public. The manager, Mr. J. R. Wharton has authorized me to expend $500.00 in making a collection of bird mounts and nests. All duplicates to come to this institution as compensation for the trouble of arranging the matter for him. I have decided to offer about $100.00 a month as a salary for a man to come into the state and work for about three months. I will allow him $20.00 per month for camping expenses and will pay his transportation from place to place in the state besides furnishing him a camping outfit. It is quite probable that I can arrange to have one of our students with the man, collecting insects, shooting birds, etc. My plan is to have the men locate themselves in camp in about four or five different localities in the state; one in the lower Yellowstone where the upper Sonoran life-zone comes in; one near Flathead Lake in the northwest corner of the State; one down near Three Forks, this Coun-
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date
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3/12/1905
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source/RG#/MS#
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MS 0371
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isPartOf/Collection
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Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
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language
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English
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