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[[underline]]Mch 30 1907[[/underline]]
[[par.]]Went to Chesapeake Beach with [[?Abel?]]. Found the tide high and very little on the beach, but had the good fortune to find a skull resembling [[underline]]Cystodelphis[[underline]]in the [[marginal note]] Eurhinodelphis[[marginal note]] green marl, about a foot above the beach & immediately to the North of the Sunset Hotel. This point is just a few feet South of the steps which lead from the South end of the board walk as it now stands - The skull,including the beak, was about 3 ft. long, and was nearly all present. It lay with the dorsal surface downward and the right frontal exposed. The long axis was oblique with the face of the bank. The skull parted more or less in getting it out, but I got all the pieces.
Did not leave anything in the bank & did not see any vertebrae.[[par.]]
[[underline]] May 11.1907.[[/underline]]
[[par.]] Went to Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore again. Ran over the notes made on types previously and made detailed notes on the whalebone whale skull from Langley's Wharf. Mr. Berry said there would be no objection to publishing on this skull and that the necessary photographs could be made at the University.[[par.]]
[[par.]] I do not expect to go back again at present & the specimens will be put away- Mr Berry told me they had a "barrell of vertebrae" down in the cellar which I was at liberty to examine later, if I wished[[pb]]