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after the advent of the horse, yet such a conclusion cannot be definitely 
reached without an accumulation of negative archzeological evidence, 
or without making sure that mythological, ethnological or historical 
evidence may not eventuaily lead to an opposite conclusion. 
Haran I. Smira. 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
N the interest of the collection of fossil fishes, Professor Bashford 
Dean recently visited several European collecting localities and 
has brought to the Museum a number of accessions. ‘Thus he 
secured in the region of Solnhofen some exquisite and rare ganoids, 
in Weymouth several pycnodonts, in the Forfar country lungfishes and 
placoderms, in the north of Scotland (Lhambryde) placoderms and the 
curious and primitive “shark’’ Psammosteus. Exchanges also were 
arranged, notably with the museum of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and a col- 
lection of Scottish Devonian fishes has recently been received from 
the Edinburgh Museum. By purchase the Department has come into 
the possession of upward of two hundred teeth of a Tertiary species of 
the shark Carcharodon, by means of which it will be possible to re- 
construct the dentition of this, the most formidable shark that probably 
ever existed. Single teeth attained a height of more than six inches, 
and the span of the mouth could hardly have been less than ten feet. 
Dr. R. M. AnpErson, who accompanied Mr. Stefansson to the Arctic 
regions for the purpose of collecting birds and mammals and making 
meteorological observations, has sent in a report under date of August 
11 from Herschel Island. All the way from Athabasca Landing through 
the great series of rivers and lakes leading into the Mackenzie River 
and down that stream to the Arctic Ocean hunting was done at every 
opportunity. Considerable material in the line of birds was obtained, 
but mammals of all kinds were found to be extremely scarce, in fact this 
has proven to be a trying season for the Indians, because it has been so 
difficult to get furs. 
Tne delegates to the International Fisheries Congress that met at 
Washington September 22-25 passed through New York on Monday, 
