Letter of the Day: May 17

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 03882

May 17, 1899.

Mr. H. G. Johnson,
Lambertsville, N.J.

Dear Sir:

I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt, on the 16th inst., of a malformed duckling, and to thank you for this contribution to the Museum collection. The malformation consists in in [sic] there being but one socket and either but one eye or two eyes immediately side by side. There is also a corresponding malformation of the brain.

This Museum issues no publications, and I can, therefore, send you no printed description.

Very respectfully,
Dallas Bache
Col. & Asst. Surgeon General, U.S. Army
In charge of Museum & Library Division.