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intorcstocl may obtain turtluT intorination or send in contrihulioiis 

 tl»rou^;h The Mu,siolo<flsl. 



Dr. C H. Eigenniann, Dean of the CJraduate School, I'niveivsity of 

 Indiana, spent several days in New York attending a meeting of the 

 Association of American Universities which was held at Columbia. 

 Dr. Eigenniann, who is engaged in a comparative study of the fresh 

 water fishes of South America, called a couple of times at the Museum's 

 Department of Ichthyology. He was particularly interested in the skin 

 of a big armored catfish recently received from the Zoological Society's 

 tropical research station in British Guiana. This specimen is entirely 

 encased in heavy spined plates. The completeness of its armor is per- 

 haps due to its having reached a large size; but even so, Dr. Eigenmann 

 thought this fish probably represented an undescribed species. 



Dr. Russell J. Coles, of Danville, Virginia, spent a few hours in 

 the Museum several days ago, when passing through New York en 

 route to Canada. This last summer Dr. Coles cooperated with the 

 Ocean Leather Company of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, in furnish- 

 ing Mr. J. C. Bell, of the American Museum, with material for a series 

 of casts of sharks and rays. 



New material received at the Museum includes: a group of Colorado 

 wildcats purchased from Jonas Brothers; various forms of lava and 

 coral and lava carvings, presented by Commendatore Bartolomeo Mazzo, 

 of Naples; Japanese bow and quiv^er with ten arrows, presented by Mr. 

 Marshall C. Lefferts, of New York; a 1463-carat cut topaz from Japan, 

 presented by Mr. Mengo L. Morgenthau, of New York; a specimen of 

 hornblende in calcite, the gift of the New York Mineralogical Club; 

 and a Maori kumete, or ceremonial food vessel, purchased from the 

 Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, of London. 



The skeleton of a young girl, found in the Aztec ruin a number of 

 weeks ago by Mr. Morris, has arrived at the Museum. This skeleton is 

 especially interesting in that it presents an example of prehistoric 

 Pueblo surgery. The left hip had been badly fractured, in life, a portion 

 of it having been broken away as a unit. In the neighboring regions 

 there were other breaks and dislocations. In addition, the left forearm 



