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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATE NATIONAL MUSEUM
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MEMORANDUM
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[[stamped]] A.A. NOV 13 1906 [[/stamped]]


Nov. 12. 1906
To Dr. R. Rathbun
Assistant Secretary in charge
National Museum

I desire ask your stamp of approval on this statement of a transaction in which I became involved some months ago, and regarding which you have already expressed approval in a general way orally.

Last Spring, Mr. Gridley on returning from a visit to New York, handed me a specimen which he had received from Prof. C. R. Eastman, and asked if I knew what it was. I recognized it at once as the type of the fossil cetacean, [[underlined]] Anoplouassa [[/underlined]].  Mr. Gridley left the specimen with me, and as I had a little time, I made a study of it and prepared a brief manuscript, with the intent of publishing the latter in some journal.  Before I finished it, I received a letter from Prof. Eastman, asking whether I had received the fossil and inquiring whether I would express an opinion regarding it, to be incorporated in a paper he was preparing.  I wrote him