THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 

 THE COLLECTION OF FOSSIL FISHES. 



||HE John Strong Newberry Collection of fossil 

 fishes has been added to the important series al- 

 ready at the Museum. This is probably the most 

 important assemblage of American species which 

 is in existence. It is very large, its catalogue in- 

 cluding about six thousand entries, and it contains many of the 

 type specimens described and figured in Professor Newberry's 

 monographs on the Paleozoic Fishes of North America and the 

 Triassic Fishes of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley. The 

 new acquisition comes as a deposit through an agreement with 

 the trustees of Columbia University. 



Among the collections of such fossils previously in the posses- 

 sion of the Museum may be mentioned the Triassic forms from 

 Sunderland, Mass., part of which were obtained with the James 

 Hall Collection and the remainder as the gift of the late Mr. Robert 

 L. Stuart ; the specimens from the Eocene Tertiary beds at Twin 

 Creeks, Wyoming, the gift of the late Mr. J. M. Constable; the 

 Jay Terrell Collection from the Devonian rocks of Ohio, presented 

 by the late Mr. William E. Dodge; the extensive series obtained 

 with the Cope Collection and embracing forms from the Devonian 

 of Pennsylvania, the Permian of Texas, the Carboniferous of 

 Illinois and Ohio and especially from the Green River shales 

 (Tertiary) of the Rocky Mountain region ; and the collection of 

 Cretaceous fishes from Mt. Lebanon, Syria, which were obtained 

 for the Museum by Mr. Morris K. Jesup from the Syrian Pro- 

 testant College at Beirtit. 



This expansion of the collection of fossil fishes has made it 

 necessary to provide an exhibition hall for its proper display. 

 Consequently the Tower Room opening from the Hall of Fossil 

 Reptiles (Hall No. 407) has been set aside for this section of the 

 Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology, and the work of prepara- 

 tion and installation has been begun under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Bashford Dean, one of Professor Newberry's pupils, who 

 has been appointed Honorary Curator of Fossil Fishes. For 

 purposes of ready comparison recent forms will be exhibited 



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