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[[underlined]] Jan. 22 .07 [[underlined]]
Dr. R. Rathbun
Assistant Secretary [[Mg?]]
Dear Dr. Rathbun:-
As I wrote you last year,
I should like to spend a little time this winter and next spring in examining the types of American fossil cetaceans in the Museums of Johns Hopkins University and the Womans' College, Baltimore, and the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia -  It would be most convenient to go to Baltimore first, [[begng?]] perhaps next Saturday or the following week-  I would propose [[strikethrough]] po [[/strikethrough]] to go on Saturdays only, as the expense [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] would be [[/insertion]] less, [[insertion]] than on other days, [[/insertion]] amounting to about $1.50 [[insertion]] for [[/insertion]] each trip ($1.25 for round trip ticket & 25 cts. for lunch).  [[strikethrough]] I presume Several trips would [[insertion]] doubtless [[/insertion]] be necessary, as I understand some of the specimens at least are stored away, and I should probably have to help to sort them out spy out the right ones and get them put where they [[insertion]] could [[/insertion]] [[underline]] can [[/underline]] be seen studied.  It is not possible, of course, to say in advance [[/strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] to what extent the various specimens would prove [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] I am unable to say in [[/insertion]] advance exactly how much time [[insertion from below]] in all [[/insertion]] would be required [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]]

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Richard Rathbun was assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution