GENEEAL NOTES 
145 
The Fur Industry Convention and what it may accomplish. 
Our fur bearing animals: their economic significance and future. 
Problems of fur production, including the care and management of foxes, 
nutritional problems, parasites, diseases, fox raising as a commercial 
proposition, raising and feeding foxes, and fur farming in Quebec. 
Registration of silver foxes. 
Rearing fur bearers other than silver foxes. 
Fur statistics relating especially to the annual fur output of the Province of 
Quebec. 
Marketing furs, including improvements of methods of marketing, trade 
names of furs, and a Canadian auction fur sale. 
Game laws and administration, including the sale of game, game protective 
associations, and a discussion of game laws from the standpoint of the 
legislator, the trader, the trapper, the fur dealer, and the fur manu- 
facturer. 
While this meeting was attended mainly by Canadians a number of Americans 
were present also. The papers and subsequent discussion disclosed the fact that 
Canadians evidently feel that the fur resources of their country are of prime 
importance. The annual returns from furs outweigh those from game. 
— N. Dearborn. 
A SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON CLEANING SKULLS 
Experience at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology indicates that after placing 
fresh skulls in a seventy per cent solution of alcohol it is better not to take them 
out again until one is ready to clean them. Be sure that the alcohol used has 
not been denatured with formalin, or the skulls will be very much harder to clean. 
Instead of cooking the skulls in an open pan, try cooking them in a covered, 
double boiler for a considerably longer period. 
— A. Brazier Howell. 
