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[[insertion]] [[Delphinapteus?]] [[/insertion]]

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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA,
A. P. Low, Deputy Head and Director.
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Ottawa.
Oct. 15, 1906

[[insertion]] Ansd Oct. 1906 [[/insertion]]

To Dr. F. W. True.
Dear Sir,
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In the Am. Journ. Sc. & Arts for March, 1850, - the late Prof. Zadock Thompson records the discovery
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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]].
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On page 919 of the Geology of Canada (1863)
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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