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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Letter of the Day: August 12
REEVE 001551-1 Anatomy, comparative. Opossum skeleton, Australian, front view. [Bones.]
United States National Museum
Washington, D.C.
Aug 12/85.
Dear Sir.
I trust that you will kindly overlook the delay in calling for the balance of skeletons transferred from the Army Medical Museum to the U.S. National Museum. This delay arose from several causes, the principal being lack of accommodation – until recently at the U.S.N.M. Then too I have but one assistant to do all the osteological work and the arranging of specimens in the Museum. Trusting that I may have caused no serious inconvenience I remain
Very respectfully
Frederic A. Lucas.
Ass’t. Dep’t. Comparative Anatomy
W. Matthews M.D.
Asss’t Surgeon U.S.A.
REEVE 001561-1 Anatomy, comparative. Ornithorynchus, duck-bill mole, side view.
[Bones.]
REEVE 01558-1 Anatomy, comparative. Salamander from Japan, sirboldia maxima[?], side
view. [Bones.]
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