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| Description | Includes correspondence with WP Jobson, Sabellum Trading Company Limited, some relating to walrus and narwhals; correspondence relating to the acquision of a dugong and fish from the Australian Pavilion and the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, including letters from J Rawlings, Commissioner in Control, Australia House, and a photograph of the 'dressed' dugong after being caught at Collier Bay, Western Australia; letter from FA Lucas, American Museum of Natural History, enclosing photographs of casting and 'roughing out' a Sulphur-bottom whale [Blue whale] in 1903, 4 May 1925; letters from FA Lucas, American Museum of Natural History, relating to casts of Cetaceans, 1 and 6 Apr 1925; letter from FA Lucas, American Museum of Natural History, relating to the outlie of the flukes and flippers of the Chinese freshwater dolphin, 1 Jan 1925.
Contained a specimen of baleen that has been retained by Mammals Collections. |