Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1874-01-14)

also. Have a good many fine trumpet sponges, and others that it would be hard for me to describe intellegibly. Am collecting a number of every species. The shells were all small and are about like the general run of little sea-shells.

    Yesterday I went six miles down

the bay, (rowing every step of the way) to where a Manatee was wrecked some time ago. Found a number of bones on the beach, and at low tide got every one. Took an iron rake, and raked the beach both in and out of water for rods around. You will find a list of the bones in another place. Altogether the bones numbered 43. The skeleton has lain there in the water for some time, and the softer parts have rotted badly. The </u solid > bones are all right. i.e. the ribs &e. The </u ends > of the processes on the vertebrae (some of them) have rotted away, and a good many of them are not perfect.