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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



vol. 59 



of American Ethnology, and the collections which they made, as well 

 as the later ones, are preserved in the National Museum. While 

 remains of the extinct species of mink were abundant in the shell 

 heaps referred to, and have also been obtained from heaps on the 



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Fig. 52. — Naskeag Point, Hancock County, Maine, looking from the Indian 

 shell-heap on the shore. Photograph by True. 



shores of Casco Bay, the fauna as a whole was found to correspond to 

 that now existing- in the region. 



EXPERIMENTS ON MARINE WORMS AT WOODS HOLE, 

 MASSACHUSETTS 



During the summer of 191 1, Dr. J. E. Benedict, Chief of Exhibits of 

 the Department of Biology in the National Museum, made some 

 interesting experiments at Woods Hole, Mass., in preparing speci- 

 mens of marine worms and some other invertebrates in such a manner 

 that they would aid in interpreting the fossil forms obtained by Dr. 

 Walcott in the Cambrian strata of British Columbia. By submitting 

 the specimens to presure and afterwards casting them in plaster, 

 some data were obtained which serve to explain peculiarities found 

 in the fossils. 



STUDIES OF THE FISHES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

 For a year or more, Messrs. B. A. Bean and A. C. Weed of the 

 Division of Fishes in the National Museum, have availed themselves 



