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Personal and Scientific News. 
The large collection of fossil fishes, made by Dr. Clark, of 
Berea, 0., to which we recently called attention in these pages 
{see American G-eologist for July 1888, p. 62 ) has been purchased 
by Dr. Newberry. America is to be congratulated on the fact 
that so large and valuable a mass of perfectly new material in 
palaeontology has not been bought out of the country and taken 
to Europe as has already happened with many fine collections 
in the past. It is a thing greatly to be regretted that in so 
many instances the men who understand the value of such col¬ 
lections have not the means to buy them, while those who have 
the means do not understand their value. Some of the finest 
have been sold out of the country in years past and can now only 
be seen on the other side. This is the case with the fine arch¬ 
aeological collection of Messrs. Squier and Davis now in the 
Blackmore Museum at Salisbury, England. 
We understand that the same or a similar destination would 
ere long have awaited the fossils of Dr. Clark had they not been 
secured by Dr. Newberry. 
Just before selling the collection Dr. Clark was fortunate 
enough to find several specimens which appear to throw a 
new light on the structure of Dinichthys and perhaps of 
some other kindred forms. Doubtless Dr. Newberry will in 
due time announce his conclusions in regard to them and it 
would be premature to say more than that these last finds seem 
to place several of the large plates of the armour in new and 
unexpected relations. At least it is exceedingly difficult to un¬ 
derstand how these plates could have been found in the posi¬ 
tion in which they occurred if they were situated as shown 
in the published plates. 
