January 3, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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article of diet greatly relished by the Bicols, 

 among whom I have been stationed for the 

 past eighteen months. Rice and fish are the 

 staple articles of diet for most Filipinos and 

 in the provinces of the Camarines there is 

 little variation from these two. Fishes of every 

 size and many varieties are prepared in every 

 conceivable form, but the samples enclosed are 

 unique in that they are found here and no- 

 where else. * * * Many varieties of fish 

 abound in the lake, but by far the most numer- 

 ous are these minute specimens. They are 

 called in the native Bicol tongue sinarapan, 

 and when dried in the sun on a leaf are called 

 hadi. They are caught by a large sheet of 

 close web, which is dipped under wherever a 

 school congregates. They are put into tightly 

 woven baskets from which the water soon 

 drains, leaving a compact mass of fish. They 

 are not minnows or immature fish. They are 

 adults and attain no greater size. The natives 

 buy them eagerly; and when the little fleet of 

 fishermen return from their morning's quest 

 and place their baskets upon the ground on 

 the market place, they are instantly sur- 

 roimded by a crowd of waiting children who, 

 armed with every sort of dish, are anxious to 

 take home the family meal. They bring three 

 or four potato tubers, a handful or two of rice, 

 or a few copper pennies, and in exchange re- 

 ceive about a pint of fish. In the kitchen the 

 fish are made up with peppers or other spiced 

 herbs, and they do not taste bad. The soldiers 

 have become quite fond of this food, and liber-^ 

 ally patronize the little native restaurants 

 where it is served." 



H. M. Smith. 

 Washington, D. C. 



dinosaurs in the ft. pierre shales and 

 underlying beds in montana. 



In the summer of 1900 I made a collection 

 of Dinosaur and Mosasaur remains from the 

 Ft. Pierre beds, near Fish Creek, in Sweet- 

 grass County, in Montana. I have not noticed 

 any account of the collecting of Dinosaurs 

 from this horizon. 



The beds are composed of dark-colored 

 shales, with occasional very thin lenses or 

 layers of sand. Sometimes the shales have no 



grit, sometimes they contain much fine sand. 

 There are many brown or grayish, rounded 

 concretions or concretionary layers. These 

 concretions are often very hard. In these are 

 many of the fossils, both vertebrate and in- 

 vertebrate. The mollusca are principally the 

 well-known, characteristic Ft. Pierre forms 

 such as Ammonites, Baculites, Scaphites, 

 Nautali and many smaller forms. 



In this locality the weathered siirface of the 

 beds forms a rolling, grass-clad prairie with 

 occasional ravines cutting into the soft shales. 

 The bones are sometimes found in these 

 ravines and 'cut banlis' and sometimes among 

 the grass roots, some of the bones projecting 

 above the short grass. 



The harder sandstones in the formation 

 above form a line of bluffs or ' rim-rock ' which 

 for many miles marks the southern boundary 

 of the Ft. Pierre shales. There are also dark 

 shales interbedded with these sandstones. This 

 formation contains leaf impressions and many 

 fragments of Dinosaur bones, but the fossils 

 have not been studied and no characteristic 

 ones were recognized. 



Below the Ft. Pierre shales are hard, rather 

 thin-bedded sandstones with interbedded shales. 

 Still lower are hard and soft sandstones, the 

 latter predominating. These contain plant 

 impressions, fossil wood, a few apparently 

 fresh-water or brackish-water shells and Turtle 

 and Dinosaur bones. The latter, many of 

 them, were in a beautiful state of preservation, 

 but no nearly complete skeletons were found. 

 In these beds are bands of peculiar black or 

 very dark, hard nodules, that look something 

 like basalt. These sometimes contain bones. 

 The Dinosaur remains are of the Claosaurus 

 type. 



From the Ft. Pierre beds the greater part of 

 the skeleton of one Dinosaur and a good num- 

 ber of bones of another were obtained, besides 

 he skull and other parts of Mosasaurs. The 

 more complete Dinosaur skeleton is in the 

 museum of the University of Montana. It un- 

 doubtedly is a Claosaurus. The other portion 

 of a skeleton is in my collection. It is much 

 smaller and was undoubtedly quadrupedal in 

 gait. The sacrum is nearly complete and is 

 different from anything else that I have seen. 



