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Division of Reptiles ck Amphibians 
National Museum of Natural History • Smithsonian Institution 
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560 • TEL. 202- 38l~SX71 
28 September 1977 
James F* Lynch 
Chesapeake Lay Center for environmental Studies 
Smithsonian institution 
Route h, Box 622 
Edgewater* Maryland 21037 
Lear Jim: 
Herewith a print out for the Mexican material you forwarded along 
not too long ago. These specimens represent a decided step forward 
in our Mexican salamander collection and its" re grateful for your 
consideration, be 1 11 look forward to goodies from your future trips 
and don't give all the best things to Berkeley! 
Jeremy Jacobs and I trooped out to pick up the sea turtle yesterday 
and we roughed it out for skeletonization* 
will accession it 
and the barnacles off its bad 
data* 
Please dropyme a line giving the 
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