Great Nebraska · Letter, Agnes M. Dawson to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, June 2

Letter, Agnes M. Dawson to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, June 2

identifier/filename: 371-00181c
title: Letter, Agnes M. Dawson to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, June 2
description: Handwritten letter, 2 pages, attached to June 1, 1905, from Agnes W. Dawson to Lawrence Bruner, "Your letter of June 1…."
Transcription: Occasionally, too teachers have the Wallaces mount uninjured birds that are found dead. I do not know of anyone aiming to get more mountings than these. The expense of such collections for the schools would be too great for the individual pocket-books even if it were desired to slaughter birds to the extent of supplying our forty buildings. I regret to say no action has as yet been taken toward a city collection at our Library. On two recent visits which I made to the Wallace shop to identify hawks and water birds a youth named Lindberg or Lindholm who is helping D. D. Wallace, talked a good deal and repeatedly said he wished he had a permit to kill—for in this way he would be able to learn them so much faster. He has been out a couple of times this spring with two or three teachers who are just beginning the study. It is probable that his influence and the prospects of an increased revenue have been the largest factor in inducing the mild D. D. Wallace to ask for a permit. This is the extent of the
date: 6/2/1905
source/RG#/MS#: MS 0371
isPartOf/Collection: Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
language: English