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into the condensing process or leave
out several chapters, such as
" [illegible] Unity of the Race"; Chro-
nomatical measurements as
applied to the Anatomy, of
man" etc.

If I were in vigorous health
& capable of prolonged exertion
I would send to the printer for
parts of the MS. & remodel
it, so as to embrace the most
[illegible] parts of [illegible]
out the most I can [illegible] is
[illegible] from day to day, I may
correct the proof as it comes in
I wish I could figure & describe
your skulls. I regard them as
confirmatory in an [illegible] de-
gree of my theory, when I get
to that part in my proof I can
add a note & if the public can
[illegible] a repetition of the dose I
will figure them in a second [E.?]
[illegible]. The facts are too val-
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uable to [slumber?] & we must de-
vise some means to have them brought
out in full.

That [illegible] [les.?] [illegible] —
I hesitated about mentioning it
because it was an "isolated find"
it rested on the testimony of an
uncorroborated observer & there is
a possibility that it may have
dropped from near the surface
[illegible] I have many isolated cases
like this [illegible] I have failed to men-
tion. You gave a bird like figure
(6) which in general [illegible] is like one
in Mr. Perkins collection except
that his has large eyes. Of this I
give a figure.

That gravel ridge which [illegible]
the base of the Rocky Mts from Wy-
oming to Pikes Peak, from which
Mr. H got his specimens, is full
of Flint flakes, according to a [illegible]
paper by [Berthould?] & wonderful
as it may appear, are associated
according to [Conrad?], with shells
as not [illegible] them the Older