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[[par]] He showed me a very remarkable fossil having the appearance of the end of the bill of a  swordfish or billfish, but apparently mammalian. It was 8 or ten inches long, narrow long & somewhat depressed. Sharp at the distal end and a broken off square at the proximal end. At the latter end in section it showed two distinct canals, with a vertical median partition between them. The outer surface was rather rough and the texture hard and  tooth-like, but it is not a tooth. Can it be the end of the rostrum of a ziphioid or [[allien?]] cetacean?

Expenses:-RR ticket 1. [[underline] 25 [[/underline]], parlor car .50; lunch 60 cts [underscore]; street-carfare .05

[[underlined]] June 3 to 11 1907 [[/underlined]]

Went to Philadelphia and examined the types in the Academy of Natural Sciences. Mr. Stone took the specimens out of the cases and brought them down into one of the offices on the 2d [underscore] floor where I could work on them more conveniently than in the Museum. I found about all the types that were definitely stated by Cope, Leidy, etc. to be in the Academy, including some not found by Case.
Of types which the record indicated might be in the Academy, but whose presence there was uncertain, none were found. I left a list with Mr. Stone showing what types were still undiscovered, and he promised to see whether he could find any of them. I put small red stars on all the specimens which I was able to determine to be types.