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REFERENCES 



The early fishes make hut little shoio in a museum, 

 both on account of their small size and the conditions 

 under which they have been preserved. The Museum of 

 Comparative Zoologij has a large collection of these 

 ancient vertebrates^ and there is a considerable number of 

 fine teeth and spines of Carboniferous sharks in the 

 United States National Museum. 



Hugh Miller'' s '•''The Old Red Sandstone'''' contains 

 some charming descript'wns of his discoveries of Pterich- 

 thys and related forms, and this book will ever remain a 

 classic. 



Fig. 5. — Pterichthys, the Wing Fish. 



