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solving what may now perhaps be considered the most in- 
_ teresting problem in the science of Natural history. 
(Copy.) Wiscasset, May 22, 1904. 
To the Honorable Joun Q. Apams, corresponding Secre- 
tary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
- Sr, 
As one object of the Academy is to notice and preserve 
discoveries in atural History, 1 am induced to communi- 
Wished. I therefore wrote Mr. Cummings, and in reply, 
received a statement more in detail, which accompanies this, 
and is marked B. 
was afterwards informed, that George Little Esq. - 
commander of the Boston frigate, saw @ sea Monster simuar 
