(5(5 PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



S8. Form oblong-elliptical, the depth less than 

 one-third length ; profile slightly convex ; pec- 

 toral short, 4^ in body ; sides with longitudinal 



dark streaks C antharinus. * 



rr. Dorsal spines 13 (or 14) ; soft parts of dorsal 

 and anal scaly ; preorbital very narrow, its 

 width much less than diameter of eye ; pec- 

 toral long, as long as head, 3| in body ; scales 

 very small ; color grayish, with narrow oblique 

 dark streaks iNORXAXUS.t 



Indiana University, January 3, 1882. 



THE KAPID PBE:PARATI0IV of JLARQE iTIlTOIiOaiCAr. SPECIiniflVS. 



By M. FEUX PI.ATEAU, 



Professeur d, V Universite de Gand. 



(Uead before the ''Association Frangaise pour I'avancement des Sciences," Congr^s de 

 Eeims, 1880. Stance du 13 Aoilt, IdSO.) 



[Translated by H. C. Yarrow, M. D., for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.] 



The laboratory of comparative anatomy of the Uuiversity of Gand is 

 of restricted dimensions. Its surronndings, sufficient for elementary 

 j)ractical teaching, are very modest, but, happilj', material for study is 

 not wanting, thanks, above all, to the administration of the Zoological 

 Garden of Antwerp, one of the richest of the continent, which gener- 

 ously donates to us its losses and carries the obligation still farther in 

 sending to ns the bodies of animals by express. It is thus that during 

 the academical years of 1879 and 1880 we have had at our disposal a 

 series of very rare monkeys, a kangaroo, a cheetah or hunting leopard, 

 a young American ostrich, the principal viscera of an adult African 

 elephant, and other interesting specimens. 



With the assistance of a single helper I have been able to utilize all 

 these objects and rapidly i)repare, during the few hours which my other 

 duties leave me, a great luiinber of permanent anatomical i)reparations 

 to enrich our museum, which is already comparatively comi)lete.|: Our 



* Pristipoma cantharinum Jenyns, Zool. Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 49, 1842. Habitat: Guay- 

 mas {Lieut. Nichols) ; Galapagos Islands {Jenyns ; Gthr.). 



\ Microlepidotus inornatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 256 = Fristijwtna 

 hrevipinne Steind. Ichthyol. Notiz. viii, 1869, 10 =^"1. Pristipoma notatnm Peters, Ber- 

 lin. Monatsber. 1869, 706. Habitat: Capo San Lucas {Gill); Mazatlan {Steind.; 

 Peters). Not obtained by Mr. Gilbert. 



tThe collections at Gand actually contain more than 3,000 preparations belonging 

 properly to comparative anatomy, and more than 1,600 specimens arc preserved in 

 alcohol. 



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