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Dear Baird

As I wrote you at the time, I could not execute your commission about beads, and I wrote transferring it to [...] Consul Harris at Venice, who informs me that he has attended to it and reported to you.

I cannot give a satisfactory answer to Prof Haldeman's curious questions about the bead, but Castellani, the great antiquary, was on his way to Phila'da. can if any body can.

Meanwhile the eminent archeologist Helbig has taken the

drawing & will let me know in a few days, all that can be learned in Rome about it

I have another No of the Bolletino for Lucy, & hope I may find a chance to send

Yours trulyG P Marsh

Prof Baird

References in this letter:

The entomologist Samuel Stehman Haldemann (1812-1880) was professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Marsh sent him specimens from Constantinople.

Wolfgang Helbig 1839-1915, an archaeologist.

Archaeological Bulletin of the Muncipality of Rome Rome. Commissione Archeologica. Bulletino: 1872-1920.