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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
77TH STREET AND CENTRAL PARK WEST
NEW YORK

DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALÆNTOLOGY
PRF HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, CURATOR
DR. W. D. MATTHEW, ASSOCIATE CURATOR
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Feb. 10 1909

Ansd Feb 11.

Dr. F. W. True
National Museum
Washington D.C.

My dear Sir
In reply to your letter of 6th inst. to Dr. Bumpus, in regard to a skull of ?[[underlined]] Argyrocetus [[/underlined]] in this museum, Professor Osborn desires me to inquire whether it would be agreable to you to publish a short description with figures of this specimen in our Bulletin, if it is of sufficient importance to deserve a special notice, and to include it in your studies upon American fossil Cetacea. If so we will forward the specimen to your at once, and if you will send us when you are ready a memorandum of the approximate length of the description and figures desired, we can make out requisition for its publication as is our usual form.
I may say further that we would be very