72 Report of the President 



RECENT AND EXTINCT FISHES* 



Bashford Dean, Honorary Curator 

 John T. Nichols, Associate Curator of Recent Fishes, in Charge 



The model of a large Hammerhead Shark has been pre- 

 pared by Mr. J. C. Bell from exhibition material secured at 

 Morehead City, N. C, in 1920. In view of the 

 small amount of exhibition space available and 

 the many other demands on Mr. Bell's time, progress on 

 preparation of other of this material is delayed. 



An "Angler's Collection" of game fishes has been installed 

 on the third floor near the elevator. The most desirable 

 members of a collection of personally taken mounted fishes, 

 gathered by Mr. Jacob Wertheim, and generously presented 

 to the Museum by Mrs. Wertheim on his death, formed the 

 basis for such a collection. These include a large tuna from 

 the New Jersey coast. A cast of a large salmon, presented 

 by Dr. L. C. Sanford, and the skin of a Red Drum obtained 

 by purchase, and now in the hands of the preparators, also 

 deserve mention. This red phase of the Sea Drum is not 

 well understood. It is not the Channel Bass {Scicenops 

 ocellatus), sometimes called "Red Drum." 



Two instalments of fresh-water fishes from China have 

 been received, incident to the work of the American Mu- 

 seum's Third Asiatic Expedition now operating 

 M t *al there, one collected by Mr. Harry R. Caldwell, 



the other by Mr. Clifford H. Pope. They are 

 well preserved, and with future such shipments, expected, should 

 form a basis for the first comprehensive study of Chinese fresh- 

 water fishes ever made. Chancellor David Starr Jordan of 

 Stanford University has made a collection of marine fishes in 

 the Hawaiian Islands for the department. In despite of ex- 

 tensive work already carried out in that locality, the great 

 richness of its fish life is attested by previously unknown forms 

 which still are found there. 



Under the Department of Ichthyology (see also pages 207 and 208). 



