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[[underline]] ^[[fossil whales]] [[/underline]]

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The Charleston Museum
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
PAUL M. REA, DIRECTOR.

CHARLESTON, S.C. [[/preprinted]] October 18, 1909.

Dr. F. W. True,
U.S. National Museum,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Dr. True:
In reply to your letter of October 16th I would say that Prof. Holmes' collection was removed from the Charleston Museum at the time when Prof. Holmes terminated his connection with the institution. A part of the collection is now in the American Museum of Natural History in New York and I understand that more of it is in Philadlphia.  At any rate we have been unable to identify any specimens as being those figured in his Pleiocene and Post-Pleiocene [[insertion]] ^[[ ^ Fossils]] [[/insertion]]. If I later come across any teeth of this character I shall bear you in mind.
I am still accumulating Xiphioid whale heads and now have seven as well as three or four more which I have located in town but not yet acquired for the Museum. Sometime I think it will be of interest to you to examine this collection.
Allow me to take this opportunity of thanking you for your paper on Fossil Cetaceans from Santa Cruz which I recently received and read with interest.
With kindest regards, I am,
Very sincerely yours, 
^[[P.M. Rea]]
Director.
PMR/W