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NOTES 



NoTic ON A Fossil, SticklivDACk Fish from Nevada 



In tlic Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, vol. 32, for 

 19*^7. P- -/I. fig- 12, Dr. Oliver P. Hay describes a fossil fish from 

 the Lahontan beds of the Truckee irrigation canal near Hazen, 

 Nevada, under the name of Gasterostcns 7villianisoiii Icplosonius. 



In Publications of the L'niversity of California, Geolog}^ v, no. 5, 

 p. 131, figs. 25, 26, the present writer has described the same species 

 from the same region, under the name of Mcrrianiella doryssa. 

 From the incom])lete material, the relationships of this form were 

 thought to be with the Atlicrinidcc, but the photographs given by Dr. 

 Hay show clearly that the little fish is a genuine Stickleback; in fact, 

 the species can not be separated, on the material photographed, from 

 the genus Gasterostcns, the typical grouj) of living Sticklebacks. Its 

 slender form and longer spines sut^ciently distinguish it from the 

 living Gasterostcns ivillianisoni, Girard, which is probably a fresh- 

 water form or ontogenetic representative of the common marine 

 Gasterostcns cataphractus, Pallas. 



As my paper was issued in April, 1907, and Dr. Hay's on May 18, 



1907, the species should apparently stand as Gasterostcns doryssns, 

 Jordan. I am indebted to Dr. Oill for calling my attention to the 

 identity of these fossils — a fact still earlier noticed by Dr. Merriam 

 and by Dr. Hay. — David Starr Jordan. 



Congress oe Americanists 



At the suggestion of tlie vSniithsonian Institution, the Department 

 of Slate has designated I'rof. Franz P)()as, of Columbia University; 

 Prof. Marshall H. Saville, of Columbia University ; Prof. George 

 Grant MacCurdy, of Yale ITniversity ; Prof. Charles Peabody, of 

 1 larvard University, and Prof. Paul Haupt. of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, to represent the United States at the Sixteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, to be held at A^ienna, September 9-14. 



1908. Dr. Franz Boas wnW be the official representative of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Smithsonian Grants 



A grant from the Smithsonian fund has recently been approved 

 to enable Dr. George P. Merrill, of the National Museum, to inves- 



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