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Newport Aug 30/87

My dear sir

I have your letter of the 27th. I had sent you a dispatch stating I did not care for the whale and also write you the reasons for my refusal. With the little space at my command. I ought not fill the space I have with a skeleton so nearly akin to the finback -- the addition xxx building has nothing to do with Zoology. I have come to the end of that space to be devoted to that. Whatever much is geology and geography and 78 feet is larger than any space I have in the building. xxxx A Agassiz ---