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were prepared by Professor Whitfield. In the succeeding years, he 
contributed many articles to the pages of the “Bulletin,” and the last 
piece of work that he did in connection with his department was the 
preparation, during the latter half of last year, of the text and drawings 
of the descriptions of several new species of fossil shells from the Mt. 
Lebanon district of Syria. The drawings, to be sure, show the effects 
of advancing age and infirmity, but nevertheless they indicate clearly 
the master hand that prepared so many thousands of antecedent figures. 
Although never a man of strong physique, Professor Whitfield usually 
enjoyed good health and was able to accomplish an immense amount of 
work. The Hall Collection of fossils was his idol, and its care and 
interests were constantly on his mind. Naturally methodical and 
systematic himself, the arrangement of the collection reflected these 
characteristics of the man and was the joy of the visiting scientist who 
desired to inspect a particular species with or without the assistance of 
the curator. Almost punctilious in his attention to duty and to his 
ideas of Museum work, he was always to be found either in the exhibi- 
tion hall or in the laboratory, never going away on collecting expeditions 
except within the limits of his usual brief vacations. Remaining ac- 
tively engaged in his department to within so short a period of his 
demise, his removal means much to the Museum and his familiar figure 
and his counsel will be greatly missed. 
Epmunpb Otis Hovey. 
THE DODGE EXPEDITION TO MISSISSIPPI 
HE Museum collection of fishes is poor in “ ganoids’’— sturgeon, 
gar-pikes, amia, shovel-noses and spoon-billed catfish or paddle- 
fish 
should be exhibited adequately in the Hall of Fishes. One reason for 

-and it has seemed desirable that this ancient group 
the interest in “ganoids”’ is that they are known to be the race of fishes 
from which all the modern types such as perch, cod and salmon are 
descended. Accordingly, thanks to the aid of the Dodge Fund, an 
expedition was sent in March to spend several weeks in a region which 
is peculiarly rich in these rare forms for the purpose of obtaining material 
to show their structure and development. In the northwestern corner 
