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Aniericii.' " He was i)r()f()un(lly iinprcsscd with the almost absolute lack 

 of arclia>()l()<,qcal knowlcdjic concerning this tcrritoi-y, in contrast with the 

 very great contemporary general interest of ethnologists and the iicknowl- 

 edgcd imjjortancc of arclueological data to supplement the results of their 

 investigations. He was further stimulated to take up work in this region 

 hecause of the somewhat primiti\c chai-jiclei- of the feu arclueoldgieal re- 

 mains so far reported. 



In 1907 1h' began e.\i)lorations in this field, starting in at the southern 

 hdundary of Wyoming. The iiortherti and eastern parts of the state were 

 \isited the following year where he made imjjortant discoveries of pre- 

 historic quarry sites as well as other important traces of prehistoric races. 

 A j)reliminary report of these investigations was ])ulilished in the Bulletin 

 of the Anicriean (jcodraphicdl Society, July, UUO. 



For the Museum to do without Mr. Smith's services is a distinct loss but 

 sinc(^ h(> was the first to develop the archa?ology of western Canada and 

 perhai)s the first to do serious systematic work in that field, he was the 

 logical man to take up the problem when the Canadian Government felt 

 ready to give the subject especial inquiry. 



COLLECTING FOSSIL FISHES IN OHIO 



By Bashford Dean 



DrillXG the summer of 1911 the Department of Fishes and Reptiles 

 arranged for its Associate Curator, Dr. Louis Hussakof, to 

 visit the localities in Ohio which had yielded rich finds in fossil 

 fishes — an expedition made possible through the Cle\cland H. Dodge 

 Fund. It was from these localities that many forms of Devonian fishes had 

 been obtained, which were described in early papers of Professor J. S. New- 

 berry, and which have ever formed a lengthy and important chai)ter in 

 the ancient history of fishes. 



The forms from Ohio included mainly huge creatures whose head and 

 shoulders were closely coAcred with plates of bone and whose dentition 

 showed that they were easily the dominant animals of their early age. 

 Unfortunately in spite of numerous earlier collections, few details could 

 be discovered to show clearly what kind of animals these "placoderms" 

 really were, or to make clear their lines of evolution, and it was hoped that a 

 renewed exploration of the classic localities would yield material which in 

 later years had become weathered out of the banks of shale and that from 

 these specimens one could obtain additional light on the problem of these 

 fishes. Dr. Hussakof accordingly made a tour of the state, visiting Cleve- 

 land, Lorain, Delaware and Sandusky, with a short (»\eiu'sion into Kentucky, 



