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high and 3f inches wide just back of the gills, and it weighed lo 

 pounds 4 ounces. The animal was in fair condition, but was not 

 fat. If it had been fat, it would have weighed at least 15 pounds. 

 Its food was herrings, minnows, shrimps and clams. The bass 

 will be mounted for the JMuseum and a cast of it will be sent to the 

 Aquarium. In the Aquarium there are several others of the 

 same lot which are alive and in good condition. These fish have 

 been in captivity longer than any others in this country, more 

 than twelve years, and are of particular interest as showing 

 growth during existence in an aquarium. 



The important Warren Collection noted in the Journal for 

 April has been received, and some of the specimens have been 

 placed on exhibition in the Dinosaur Hall (No. 407 of the Fourth 

 Floor). The new exhibit consists of several slabs from the Con- 

 necticut Valley Trias (Newark system) showing the footprints 

 of many different kinds of dinosaurs, fossil mud-cracks, rain- 

 drop impressions and other features of the old estuary. 



Important advances have been made in the installation of 

 the collection of fossil fishes, which may be found in the tower 

 room opening off from the Dinosaur Hall on the Fourth Floor. 

 The most striking feature of this series consists, probably, in 

 the representations and restorations of the great armored fish, 

 Dinichthys, from the Devonian rocks of Ohio. These so-called 

 "fish" were of uncertain relations, but they must have been 

 formidable denizens of the ancient seas on account of their great 

 size (length, 20 feet) heavy armor and strong jaws and teeth. 

 The armored fishes disappeared at the close of the Devonian, 

 leaving no descendants which have survived to the present time. 

 The sharks are illustrated in their phases of development from 

 the primitive forms upward. 



Samuel B. Hoffman, Esq., has generously provided funds 

 for the continuation of the work of the Hoffman Ethnological 

 Expedition in the Black Mountains of North Carolina, and the 

 curator of the Department of Entomology, Mr. W. Beutenmiiller, 

 is now in the field collecting. 



