Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated January 10, 1849.
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Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated January 10, 1849.
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- Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
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- Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated January 10, 1849., Original located at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washinton, D.C., file 7002., http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/gpmsfb490110 (accessed May 22, 2013)
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated January 10, 1849.
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Washington Jan 10 49
Dear Baird
In Gray's appendix to Griffith's Cuvier, I find
Gen. 2[...] Salamandra
*Toes 4 Salamandria
*Toes 4.5 Salamandra
a --------
b --------
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f ---- skin and paratoids smooth, minutely punctated, lateral line none, toes longs and free, molge.nob. (then follow several European & Asiatic species) be add. Probably the following American species belong to this section. (then follow the names of forty or more species, without description, among which -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- are S.[...] a white faced salamander Green; Capt [Beechy's] salamander S. Beechii, Gray; Green's salamander, S. Greenii, Gray;
g. skin and paratoids smooth, minutely punctuated; lateral line none; toes very short webbed, & he enumerates only.
S. variegata. Gray. S. Platydactylus Cuv. Mus. Paris. Brown with irregular-dorsal bands, Mexico.
And this is all Master Gray saith. N.B. don't accuse me of not distinguishing between punctated & punctuated. I copy literatim. Item. Next time you want to use platydactylus in the feminine, don't make it in a. Greek compound adjectives you know c.
As to the Bilder-Lexicon -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- is worth [...] 'translate a few pages, & note the time. It is worth certainly #1' per page of the German text & perhaps more. You will of course correspond directly with Garrigue on the subject.
Will you give me General Churchill's present address?
Yours truly
G P. MP.S. The above extracts are from the 9' vols. of Griffith & Pidgeon's Cuvier, Animal Kingdom London 1831. Synopsis of the species of the clan Reptilia by J. E. Gray c c pp 105-107
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