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[[underlined]]AIR MAIL[[/underlined]]      September 17, 1956

Mr. William T. Miller
Christiansted
St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Dear "Fish" Miller:

Sorry that I did not have your post office box or a more exact address, but I am hoping that this communication will reach you in time. Do you remember that deep-water fish that you let me take along? It has been identified by our Dr. Ernest A. Lachner, associate curator of the Division of Fishes, as [[underline]] Polymixia lowei [[/underline]] Günther. He says:

[[indented]] "These berycoid fishes have never been reported as 'common' off the Atlantic coast. The species was originally described by Poey, I am told, but the name is credited to Günther, as you will have seen. Following Poey a single specimen was taken in 1933, and until 1933, when a Harvard expedition did some deep-water trawling in the Greater Antilles, ^[[got]] [[strikethrough]]getting[[/strikethrough]] 150 specimens, were the only two of which we knew. Your specimen is our largest representative of the species ^[[in our collections".]] [[/indented]] 

Thank you.

Sincerely,
^[[signed: WS]]

Waldo L. Schmitt
Head Curator
Department of Zoology

WLS:eek
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