Carcharinus Nicaraguensis is Here, A Wee Bit Shrunk

Local ichthyologists are ecstatic today, for the world's only known specimen of a fresh-water shark is a weakened trophy in the basement of the University Museum. His name is Carcharinus Nicaraguensis, and it took the President of Nicaragus, an Army engineer, and three expeditions to get him here.

Carcharinus fired the ambitions of Harvard fish-fanciers a year ago, and one was caught in Lake Nicaragua, only to be sunk by a barbarous Hun submarine on his way north. Then President Somoza caught three of them, but lack of shipping facilities decayed everything but the President's snapshots. The last attempt pulled out "C. N.", as he's familiarly called by those who love him.

When landed, he measured five feet long, but shrinkage has set in and the poor fish isn't his old self. The only worry Harvard scientists have to disturb their elation is the problem of how the shark got from the sea to the lake. It has been established, however, that he did it "aeons ago."