Letter from Spencer Baird to Winfrid Stearns

Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to his colleague Winfrid A. Stearns about sending supplies to Quebec at the address of George Tanguay. These include "one dredge; two dredge nets; one four-gallon tank, and about eighteen jars of alcohol." Baird anticipates that Stearns will have some trouble with the alcohol because of the duty for importing it.