Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Washington District of Columbia 1906 - 1908
Page 29
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Transcription
"June trip to meetings of American Museums Association. June 2-1907 Left New Haven at noon arrival at New York 2.15; had luncheon at Grand Union and then started for the American Museum of Natural History. Lake "Dipnoans "Lung fishes "Fishes provided with a lung as well as gills; they breathe through nostrils, have three pairs of dental plates, and paddle-like paired limbs. At present they are represented by but a few species. They are in many respects (movement, breathing, etc.) little Dolomandus. "Lung fishes appeared early in the Devonian and attained their greatest development at the close of the Paleozoic." "Crossoterygii" another good label.