This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[upper right corner]]3[[/upper right corner]] publish it in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comp. Zoology. I think the foregoing covers all there it to be said regarding [[strikethrough]] the receipt of[[/strikethrough]] this important specimen from a official point-of-view. Though I was exceedingly glad to examine it, it [[strikethrough]] came [[/strikethrough]] was sent to me without an solicitat on my part. Yours respectfully [[?]]