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[[insertion]] [[Delphinapteus?]] [[/insertion]] [[circled]] 1. [[/circled]] [[preprinted]] GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, A. P. Low, Deputy Head and Director. [[/preprinted]] Ottawa. Oct. 15, 1906 [[insertion]] Ansd Oct. 1906 [[/insertion]] To Dr. F. W. True. Dear Sir, [[left margin]] V [[/left margin]] In the Am. Journ. Sc. & Arts for March, 1850, - the late Prof. Zadock Thompson records the discovery [[left margin]] Spec. 1. [[/left margin]] of a large part of the skeleton of a small whale, which he called provisionally [[underlined]] Delphinus Vermontanus [[/underlined]], in past tertiary days about twelve miles south of Burlington, Vt., in Aug. 1849. But Prof. Thompson distinctly says that he regards [[underlined]] Delphinapterus [[/underlined]] Lacepede, as only a subgenus of [[underlined]] Delphinus [[/underlined]]. [[left margin]] V [[/left margin]] On page 919 of the Geology of Canada (1863) [[left margin]] Spec. 2 [[/left margin]] it is said that "several of the caudal vertebrae of a cetacean, [[underlined]] Beluga Vermontana [[/underlined]]" were found in the Leda clay (pleistocene) "at the brick yard of Messrs. Pool & [[strikethrough]] Compte [[/strikethrough]] Comte, at or near the Mile -end quarries, Montreal. Those vertebrae are st[[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]]ill in our Museum, & were doubtless identified with [[underlined]] B. Vermontana [[/underlined]] by the late E. Billings. In vol. V of the "Canadian Naturalist & Quarterly [[insertion]] Journal of Science [/insertion]] for December, 1870, E. Billings records the discovery