State of Vermont 
OFFICE OF STATE GEOLOGIST 
BURLINOTON.VT. 2bth.l908. 
Dr.F.if.True, 
My Dear Sir: 
I am under much obligati!«in 
to youifor so promptly examining the photos the bones 
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of thejHalifax whale. I r^aM fael mnoh l^r^s uncertain in 
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what I publish because of your tnost highly valuad opinion. 
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As to the periotio of the Ha 1 i f a x^?^ p e a i m e n , M r . A nd r e ws 
wrote mi Mist before he left "As soon as I looked at the 
periotic of this spec imen ( Ha 1 i f ax ) i t seemed to me that it 
r 0 s e ra b 1 e ci very closely the corresponding bona of M o n o d o n . 
A comparison shows that in point of size and general shape 
it agrees very much better with M.raonooeros than with D. 
i e u c a s , i n fact the vf h o 1 e shape of the bone is d e c j d e d 1 v 
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m D e 1 p h 1 n a p t e r u s . . I n order to verify my o p i r\ ^ ^ ^ ^ I 
showed the specimen to Dr . W . P . Ma tt hewa and he agreed wl-'-.h 
m^hat, while there are some points of dirferenca between the 
peYxuiiG of this specimen and M^nodon^yet it is certainly 
c^*D0r zo that genus than to D e 1 p h i n ap t e r u s , " 
rj^v/ the st quer^ that arises is whether the Halifax speor. 
men is the M.monooeras or something else. As I f. 6 m pa red 
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