Field Notebook: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York
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I would advise our Museum to take the entire series material and have Prof. Drickamer throw in the Hesperorius material which is now in me drawer. If this cannot be done the three genera should be represented by that $2,500. In this case Prof. Drickamer would desire to first compile a list of the material he will have so that we can see what we will get for the money. Of the peccary Platysgonus leptor- hinus he can let us have a nearly com- plete skeleton. The Hesperorius material or exhibition is entirely worth for the preservation of parts of the feathers. The duplicate material consists of vertebrae and other thoracic parts. That set is much broken but patient work will bring much of it together. In any event it is worth having.