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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
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MEMORANDUM 
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Mr Gidley,
Please look this up. Prof. P.M. 
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Jan. 29, 1906.

To Dr. Merrill:-
Leidy stated in 1876 that the type of his fossil ziphioid whale [[underlined]] Proroziphius macrops [[/underlined]] was in the "Smithsonian collection of the Government Departments of the Centennial Exposition" - Do you know whether anything has been seen of it here? It is a beak 2 1/2 ft. long & with "the density of ivory"-
F. W. True

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Can not at present locate this specimen. J. W. Gidley  
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