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[[underlined]] Details    Balto Phila & Annapolis [[/underlined]]

July 2, 1907

D[[superscript]] r [[/superscript]]. R. Rathbun
Assnt Sety [[?]] USM
Dear Sir:-

I have the honor to report that [[strikethrough]] I finished the del work [[/strikethrough]] on June 29, 1907. I finished the work on the types specimens of fossil whales for which I was detailed under dates of Jan 26 and Mch. 22, 1907. [[strikethrough]] I visited [[/strikethrough]] In this connection, I visited Baltimore six times, between Feb. 2 and May 11, and examined all the types which were discoverable in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] [[insert]] ^ the collection of [[/insert]] Johns Hopkins University, the Geological Survey of Maryland, and the Womans College. Having learned that three types were contained in the exhibit of the Maryland Geological Survey in the Capitol of Annapolis, I visited that place on June 29 and examined them. 

Earlier in June, I went to Philadelphia and [[strikethrough]] studied all the  [[/strikethrough]], spent a week in studying all the types [[insert]] ^ and related specimens [[/insert]] which were to be found in the Academy of Natural Sciences. 

Of the total number of 78 species of North American fossil ceta-