My Dear Sir

Your favor of the 10^th of August arrived during my absence.¹ I was glad to hear the book arrived safely and that its appearance pleased you—² I hope you have found some of my observations to interest you. Let me add one observation since the book was written. I castrated two young Wapiti³ last winter. On the oldest, little knobs sprung up in places of the antlers $\frac{1}{2}$ inch high but on the other nothing appreciable of the sort is observed— I think it safe to say if the deer is castrated before it is three months old, the growth of the antlers will be entirely suppressed.

It will afford me the greatest pleasure to present Sir Victor Brooke with a copy of my book and should feel highly honored if he will take the trouble to peruse if you will but favor me with his address.,⁴ but please ask him to remember that I am not a professed Naturalist but only an amature, my studies in this direction having been pursued as a recreation since I retired from judicial. The labor of my life has been in my profession.

Most truly yours | J D Caton