... Imagine my surprise and delight upon learning, soon after landing. that a native had recently found a nearly perfect skeleton in a good state of preservation, and that he would sell it.
I took the first opportunity to examine the skeleton, and was not slow in deciding that it should be purchased for our National Museum. The skeleton was found in 1891 by the same native who found the one which was sent to the Czar. It was embedded in the sand to a depth of a few inches, and lay several rods from the present water-line. It is in a good state of preservation and proves to be very nearly complete. The cervical vertebre are complete and show that the number is seven instead of six, a point that was in dispute until settled by the study of this skeleton made by Mr. Lucas of the National Museum Unfortunately the anterior limbs are incomplete, and whether Steller's seacow had any hand or Finger bones must still remain an unsettled question.
Der erwähnte Mr. Lucas war Frederic Augustus Lucas, Kurator des Washingtoner National Museum. Dort befindet sich nur ein komplettes, zusammengesetztes Skelett, 1882-84 von Stejneger gesammelt. Ausserdem einzelne Skelettteile, möglicherweise von dem zerlegten Evermann-Exemplar..
Das Stejneger-Skelett.