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[[underlined]] cetus [[/underlined]] is extant and in good hands.

I hope you will publish some good [[insertion]] ^ photographic [[/insertion]] figures of it [[insertion]] ^ using [[strikethrough]] some preparation [[/strikethrough]] a wash that will make it light enough in color to bring out the form of the many regions [[/insertion]]. Harlan's & Cases's figures are practically worthless. I judge that the specimen is badly in need of the services of a skilful preparator. The atlas ought to be separated from the occiput and cleaned up, as well as all the back part of the skull.

It is possible that the type of [[underlined]] Agorophius [[/underlined]] (=  Zeuglodon [[underlined]] pygmaeus [[/underlined]] Mueller) has strayed away to Cambridge? I have been trying to locate it for some time but without success. It is not in New York, Philadelphia or Charleston. The Smithsonian has an unpublished plate of this species about 50 years old which I am just now preparing for publication.
I have been engaged for about a year in collecting specimens of fossil cetaceans [[insertion]] ^ for the Museum [[/insertion]] and have got together [[strikethrough]] about a thousand pieces [[/strikethrough]] some 1200 pieces so far - I am planning a full revision of the American species and next winter shall