Show pROFESSOR J. J H. H LINFORD the popular and successful teacher teacher- of biological science in jn the Brigham Young College at Logan recently sent the Natural History Department the carefully carefully carefully care care- fully prepared brain of a skate The skate belongs to a division of the the fishes in which the skeleton is s cartilaginous inous instead of being bony In these fishes the mouth is broad and is situated under the projecting upper jaw Clo Closely ely related to the skate is the shark and the electric ray The brain of the skate is highly developed developed developed de de- for a fish but for some reason it does not live up to its highest possibilities possibilities possibilities and many fish with brains vastly smaller and less perfectly organized live freer and more active lives than the skate The skate is a flat fish and usually is found at or near the bottom of the ocean It belongs to a very ancient form of offish offish offish fish life and the class to which it belongs belongs belongs be be- longs probably may be regarded as the ancestors of our bony fish |