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and almost completed the general Subject Index cards. 

 There is left only the section on Genera of Fishes, and it is 

 believed that this will not offer the difficulties attending the 

 preparation of the sections cited above. It is confidently 

 asserted that the end of this great work is in sight. 



"What Sharks Really Eat," in the May-June number of 

 Natural History, presents in popular form observations made 

 by J. C. Bell in 1920, reported on in more technical detail by 

 J. C. Bell and J. T. Nichols in the March number of Copeia. 

 A second article in the July-August Natural History, "The 

 Miami Aquarium," reviews the scope of that new institution 

 and possibilities of cooperation between it and the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Among other publications by members of the department 

 staff, is "Notes on the Morphology and Habits of the Nurse 

 Shark, Gin gly mo stoma cirratum" {Copeia), by Dr. E. W. 

 Gudger. 



