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received by the Smithsonian Institution on February 22, 1876, and from it a 

 plaster replica was made by JovSeph Palmer on or about February 23, 1876. 

 Reference to the U. S. National Museum cast book shows that the entry of 

 this specimen by William Palmer made at the time is "February 23, 1876. 

 Long-nosed porpoise, Hudson River, N. Y. John Wallace. Cast no. 19." A 

 cast presumably was part of the Smithsonian exhibit at the exposition held 

 in 1876 at Philadelphia. Cope saw this Dclphhms specimen either in Phila- 

 delphia or Washington, and in addition examined two casts of a small 

 Phocacna, two casts of a small Lagenorhynchus acutus and a large cast of 

 another individual of same species. He named these last as L. gubernator 

 and L. perspicillatus. 



Cope (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 28: 134, 1876) described all 

 these specimens but somehow got them somewhat mixed. His Phocaeiia 

 lincata is a mixture of a view of one or two small Phocacna casts, the stuffed 

 skin of DelphhiHS dclphis from the Hudson River at New York, and a 

 Phocacna skull from somewhere else. Nevertheless, Cope stated that "this 

 new porpoise is represented by a single specimen, which was taken in the 

 harbor of New York, not many months ago, and sent to the Smithsonian 

 Institution, where the skeleton is now preserved, etc." The skeleton was 

 not forwarded to Washington, only the mounted skin with the skull inside 

 (see True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36: 117, 1889). 



"As I remember, the stuffed dolphin was destroyed in 1877 by the writer, 

 the skull saved, and the data written on it by Dr. G. B. Goode at the time 

 or shortly afterward. It was the common practice at that time for the 

 writer to take out skulls and clean them and for Dr. Goode to write the 

 data on them in very black ink. The cast of this stuffed skin is still in our 

 storage room, but the skin was destroyed because it was dirty, oily, and 

 unshapely. 



"When Coi)e's paper was published there was no cast of a long Phocaenn 

 in the museum. There was none until September 30, 1880, when a mould was 

 made from one sent fresh from Cape Cod by A. H. Clark through E. G. 

 Blackford of New York, a cast of which we still have and which was long 

 erroneously supposed to be the type of Phocacna lincata Cope. 



"Cope evidently saw the stuffed skin of Wallace's Dclphinus and he must 

 have seen the teeth ; but he could not have seen the skull since it was not 

 removed from the skin until just before June 16, 1877, the skull being first 

 entered on that date. The skin number 12481 was entered on January 20, 

 1876, as a Phocacna, subsequently changed to Dclphinus, and afterward 

 changed to 'Phocacna lincata Cope Type.' The locality and collector are 

 given as New York Bay and John Wallace, respectively, all in several hand- 

 writings. The specimen thus has three numbers, 12481 for the skin, 15781 for 

 the skull, and 16255 for the cast. The name painted on the stand for the 

 cast of this long-nosed porpoise is Dclphinus erebentius Cope." F. W. True, 

 manuscript note. 



^Phocaena vomerina Gill. Cotypes. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 17: 178, ordered published Sept. 26, 1865. 

 —Phocacna phococua Linnaeus. See True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36: 118, 1889. 



4149. Eostrum and part of brain case. Adult. Puget Sound, Wash. 



Collected by C. B. K. Kennerly. Cataloged July 18G0. 



Skull Grade C. 



