940 General Notes. [September, 
Zurich, Zug, des Quatre, Contous, Egeri, Katzen, Greifen, Mag- 
giore, Lugano, Como and Garda.— Bibi. Univ., Arch. des Sai, 
October 15, 1883, p: 349, and Journ, Roy. Micr. Soc., April, 1884. 
THE “ MAN-EATER SHARK,” Carcharodon carcharias (Fig. 1 and 
Plate xxx1)—The various descriptions given of this species are 
so very imperfect and confusing that it is safe to say, with Profes- 
sor D. S. Jordan in a recent letter to me, “ There is no good 
description of the animal extant. The earlier writers spoke of it 
without knowing it, and all had more or less confusion between 
it and C. lamna.” 
This shark was taken by me on the fourth day of August, 
1883, about two miles off Great Point lighthouse, Nantucket, 
ass. 
The experienced fishermen of Nantucket, with all their oppor- 
Fic. 1.—The Man-eater Shark ; position of attack. 
tunities for investigating this interesting family of fishes, We" 
‘enorant of the correct name of this specimen, and they regard 
it as a rare species in the waters of that vicinity. It therefore 
Sega to me an object of special interest and study. % 
© specimen which gives me the data for this note, I have 
placed in the museum of Vassar Brothers’ Institute in this Cit: 
Sec oF Aa A in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical 
