Note 526 — Chapter XIV

For instance, some of the Maryland specimens of Carcharodon megalodon. See an admirable memoir on the Fossil Squalidæ of the United States, by Dr. R. W. Gibbes, Journ. Acad. Nat. Science, Philadelphia. At the meeting of the British Association in 1851, J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. F.R.S. read some interesting observations on the comparison of these large fossil fishes with the recent Carcharias glaucus of Australia. See also Owen, Cyclop. Anat. Art. Teeth.