B U L.LETI N 



of the 



Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 



VOLUME XII 1918 



CATALOG OF THE FOSSIL FISHES IN THE MUSEUM 



OF THE BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL 



SCIENCES 



BY 



L. HussAKOF, Ph.D. and W. L. Bryant 



INTRODUCTION 



The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences possesses a collection of 

 fossil fishes numbering several hundred specimens. This collection 

 includes materials from many different localities, but by far the 

 larger part of it consists of specimens from the immediate vicinity 

 of Buffalo. As regards these, it is the largest collection ever brought 

 together, and as such is invaluable to students of the geology or the 

 fish life of the Devonic of western New York and the neighboring 

 region. 



But notwithstanding the great interest of the collection, it has 

 never been described, and only a few of the specimens have been 

 studied by paleontologists. In this catalog, therefore, we propose 

 to describe and illustrate this collection, and thus make it available 

 for scientific purposes to all students of the vertebrates. We hope 

 also that by directing attention to the rich fossil fields in the vicinity 

 of Buffalo, this catalog may be the means of stimulating the inter- 

 est of local collectors so that specimens may continue to accumulate 

 and make possible some day the solution of a number of interesting 



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