MAY 1 Ans'd

Lawrence Bruner,

Lincoln, Nebr.

Dear Sir and Friend:-

Received your letter. Sold my two volumes of Bendire, too heavy to pack around. Will keep "Hawks and Owls."

Leave for Sonora, Mexico, Sunday night at 11 P.M., going into the center of the Yakui Country, plenty of trouble there and I may run into some of it. During last year I have made a few mine examinations but have been experimenting most of the time to find a safe, effective, worm remedy, - something that will kill and expell blood-sucking worms of genus Uncinaria. Have made a new discovery in this line, and found a perfect remedy for any old worm, in any old dog, ok in man and other animals (this is [illegible]).

Remedy is now on market - "Ruffon-Wurms" - and cleared $60.00, mail order, in first month, April. I enclose literature; if you know of a case of Wurms just advise me.

Yours Very Sincerely,

Rupert. E. Preston. 3035 Vine St.,

K. C. - Mo.

1905, March 15

Lincoln, Nebr., May 1, 1905.

Prof. J. Dickinson,

Weeping Water, Nebr.

My Dear Sir:-

I am sorry that no one was about the department on Saturday so as to give you a Nebraska Bird Book. We had to take our regular field trip for bird work and it appears that everybody found it necessary to go along so as to supervise the observations. We have a list of fifty two birds, not including the bluejay catbird, mocking bird and other other common birds which we should have seen.

I am sending you herewith a cloth bound copy of the book which you desired. It is seventy five cents.

By the way, there will be a field meeting of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union at Dunbar on Sat. the 6th instant. We will try to meet on Friday evening for a program. The Dunbarites have agreed to entertain visiting ornithologists. Can you not be present?

Yours very truly,

Lincoln, Nebr., May 3, 1905.

Prof. J. R. Collins,

Springfield, Ill.

My Dear Sir:-

     Your favor of April 12 has been "snowed under" on my desk and hence the delay in the reply. I note what you say concerning the so called Jack-o-lantern" or "Will-o-the-wisp" in connection with the various species of herons. While I myself have not definitely determined that the herons are responsible for these mysterious swamp fires, I have obtain- my clue from a remark given in Holden's book on Lights in Nature. If you will examine a heron of any species, you will see upon its breast and other portions of its under side, tracts of downy feathers strongly coated with a powdery substance, the use of which has never been determined. With these few remarks I will leave the subject to your investigation.

Yours very truly,

1905, April 12

Office of Dr. Frederick Eiche

1134 O Street Telephone 861

Over Western Union Telegraph

Office MAY 16 Ans'd

Lincoln, Nebraska, May 15th 1905

My Dear Mr. Bruner

I cannot say that I long to become a warbeler like Patti. But I do wish to get acquainted with the Warbeler family. A permit to cultivate that acquaintanceship will be thankfully recd. Hoping that I may able some time to return favor.

I Am

Resp. F. Eiche

Lincoln, Nebr., May 16, 1905.

Miss Agnes M. Dawson,

3510 Jackson Ave.

Omaha, Nebr.

My Dear Madam:-

On Sunday when Miss Wood and Miss McDonald were down here looking up the birds of the salt marshes of this vicinity they intimated that they would like to have some of us come up there and chaperon a party of bird-loving Omaha people on a trip to Child's Point. We have been looking the matter up and find that it will be possible for us to make such a trip this coming Saturday. In case you can get together a crowd please notify us at once. We would leave on the early train and could meet the party about seven A. M. at the Paxton Hotel from which we could take a car to Albright and then walk in the woods.

Yours very truly,