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as often presenting reversions. He emphasized the evolutionary 
tendency in man to proximalization of the points of attachment 
of the shoulder muscle group, referred to cleavage variations 
in the anterior portion of brachio-sphalic sheet, and compared 
these with ontogenetic characters in anthropoids. Human 
anomalies in this group are best interpreted by cynocephaloids, 
and not by the higher forms. 
The paper was referred to the Publication Committee. 
Professor EK. B. Witson, ‘‘ On Regeneration and the Mosaic 
Theory of Development,’ presented a brief critique of the 
latest results of Rovx and Wersmann. 
The following paper was read, illustrated by specimens and 
maps : 
THE SUNAPEE SAIBLING: A FOURTH NEW ENGLAND 
VARIETY OF SALVELINUS. 
BY JOHN D. QUACKENBOS, 
The sudden and unaccountable appearance, in large 
numbers, of a valuable food and game fish in any of our 
inland waters, would be hailed as a most important event, both 
in the angling and the ichthyological world. Assume that fish 
to be a prolific and rapidly growing salmonid, surpassing all 
congeners in symmetry and brilliancy of coloration, equalling 
the most delicate in table merits, and excelled in game qualities 
by the land-locked salmon alone—and you may readily compre- 
hend the enthusiasm which, some seven or eight years ago, 
greeted the discovery of a New Hampshire charr characterized 
by such a synthesis of traits. 
Until the year 1885, but three species of trout, or more prop- 
erly charr (a Gelic word, meaning red or blood-colored), were 
recognized as native to New England, viz.: 
I. The Salvelinus fontinalis, or common brook trout. 
II. The Salvelinus namaycush, the longe, togue, lake, or 
Mackinaw trout. 
III. The Salvelinus stagnalis of Jordan; oquassa of Girard 
and Gunther, the diminutive blue-back of the Rangeley Lakes 
of Western Maine—the last, closely allied to species widely 
spead through Arctic America, as well as to the European 
saibling. 
