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is known concerning the fossil fishes of this region, and the numerous 

 and accurate pLates will enable him to determine thti name and character 

 of any specimen found. Dr. Newberry says : 



Fishes seeui to be e(iu;illy abundant in the Connecticut Jtiver basin. At Dur- 

 ham, Connecticut, and Turners Falls, Massachusetts, they are particularly numerous 

 and well preserved, while they have also been obtained at Middletown, Sudbury, 

 Chicopee, Amherst, and lladleys Falls.' 



In this list Sudbury must be changed to Sunderland, and Hadleys 

 Falls to South Hadley Falls ; and Amherst must be canceled, as only 

 coarse arkose occurs in Amherst, and no fishes have been found there. 



At Turners Falls, on the east bank of Fall River, a few rods above the 

 bridge, at the southeast corner of the island, a few feet above the point 

 where the dam abuts, and on the mainland directly north of this spot, in the 

 line of strike at the foot of the bluff's and near the water's edge, many 

 specimens can be ol>tained by digging in the black shales. 



At Whitmores Ferry, Sunderland, in the north part of tlie town, in 

 rocks exposed only at low water, numerous impressions may be found. 

 Good specimens, carefully and skillfully developed, can be purchased 

 of the owners of the mill adjacent. The slabs are left out during the 

 winter and split by the frost, so as to expose the impressions of fishes to 

 the best advantage. 



Hadleys Falls, mentioned by Newberry, must, I think, be South 

 Hadley Falls Canal, as fishes were found during the digging of tliis canal, 

 and are now deposited in the museum of Amherst College. The specimens 

 from this locality do not seem to have been exannned by Professor New- 

 berry, as he does not cite any species from there. Those in the Amherst 

 Musuem were by oversight not submitted to him. 



Chicopee Falls has not aff'orded anything, so far as I know, for many 

 years. The excavations made during the building of the dam and mills 

 may have supplied the specimens which fell into the hands of Mr. Red- 

 field, and furnished the material for the new species which Dr. Newberry 

 has named for this town. There are no specimens from this place in the 

 Amherst collection. 



I have given below a list of the forms which have been identified in 

 Massachusetts, and a word concerning the history of the more interestmg 



' Loc. cit., p. 21. 



