APPENDIX. 



FOSSIL MAMMALS COLLECTED AT PEDRA VERMELHA, 

 BAHIA, BRAZIL, BY GERALD A. WARING. 



By W. J. Holland. 



Introductory. 



On my journey to Argentina in the autumn of the year 1912^'^ I 

 formed the acquaintance on shipboard of Mr. Gerald A. Waring, who 

 took passage at Bahia and went with us as far as Rio de Janeiro. 

 In the course of conversation he told me of his discovery at Pedra 

 Vermelha of a considerable deposit of fossil remains and kindly 

 presented me with some interesting fragments, which he had in his 

 possession at the time, promising at a later date to send to the Car- 

 negie Museum the remainder of the specimens, which he had collected, 

 and which he had left in storage at Bahia. This promise he subse- 

 quently fulfilled, sending to the Museum a large box containing a 

 number of specimens. 



The fragments given to me on shipboard by Mr. Waring were 

 taken by me to La Plata, where I had an opportunity to compare 

 them with the fine material preserved in the National IVIuseum at 

 that place, receiving the assistance in so doing of Dr. Santiago Roth, 

 the learned and amiable Curator of Fossil Vertebrates. The larger 

 collection, subsequently received, was under my direction unpacked 

 by my assistant, Mr. O. A. Peterson, who devoted some time to their 

 preliminary study, accessing them, and assigning to them numbers 

 in the Catalog of Fossil Vertebrates in the Museum. I am thus 

 indebted to Mr. Peterson for having lightened the task of preparing 

 the list, which will be presented in the following pages. The entire 

 collection is accessed under the Number 4759, and falls into the 

 Catalog of Fossil Vertebrates under the Numbers 11028-11035 in- 

 clusive. 



Before presenting the record of the material it is proper to state, 

 that, as nearly as I can now recall the oral account given me by Mr. 



" To the River Plate and Back, by W. J. Holland, 1913, G. P. Putman's Sons, 

 New York, pp. 1-387. 



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