On CD's instructions EL has forwarded a case containing part of the head of [Megatherium].
I beg to enclose you bill of lading for a Case of Specimens of Natural History which by
direction of M
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- f1 244.f1The cranium was described by Richard Owen in Fossil Mammalia, pp. 16--35, as that of a `gigantic extinct mammiferous animal, referrible to the Order Pachydermata, but with affinities to the Rodentia, Edentata, and Herbivorous Cetacea'. Owen named it Toxodon platensis.
- f2 244.f2See letter to J. S. Henslow, [20--7] September 1833.