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later known for his work on fossil forms, those of Mississippi, 

 Alfredo Duges, of Guanajuato, those of Central Mexico. 



Samuel Garman, at Harvard University, a student of 

 Agassiz, is the author of numerous valuable papers, the most 

 notable being on the sharks and on the deep-sea collections 

 of the Albatross in the Galapagos region, the last illustrated 

 by plates of most notable excellence. Other important mono- 

 graphs of Garman treat of the Cyprinodonts and the Discoboli. 



The present writer began a " Systematic Catalogue of the 

 Fishes of North America" in 1875 m association with his gifted 

 friend, Herbert Edson Copeland (1849-76), whose sudden 

 death, after a few promising beginnings, cut short the under- 

 taking. Later, Charles Henry Gilbert (1860-), a student of 

 Professor Copeland, took up the work and in 1883 a "Synop- 

 sis of the Fishes of North America" was completed by Jordan 

 and Gilbert. Later, Dr. Gilbert has been engaged in studies 

 of the fishes of Panama, Alaska, and other regions, and the 

 second and enlarged edition of the "Synopsis" was completed 

 in 1898, as the "Fishes of North and Middle America," in col- 

 laboration with another of the writer's students, Dr. Barton 

 Warren Evermann. A monographic review of the Fishes of 

 Puerto Rico was later (1900) completed by Dr. Evermann, 

 together with numerous minor works. Other naturalists whom 

 the writer may be proud to claim as students are Charles 

 Leslie McKay (1854-83), drowned in Bristol Bay, Alaska, while 

 engaged in explorations, and Charles Henry Bollman (1868- 

 89), stricken with fever in the Okefinokee Swamps in Georiga. 

 Still others were Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, the indefatigable 

 investigator of Brazilian fishes and of the blind fishes of the 

 caves; Dr. Oliver Peebles Jenkins, the first thorough explorer 

 of the fishes of Hawaii; Dr. Alembert Winthrop Brayton, 

 explorer of the streams of the Great Smoky Mountains; Dr. 

 Seth Eugene Meek, explorer of Mexico; John Otterbein Snyder, 

 explorer of Mexico, Japan, and Hawaii; Edwin Chapin Starks, 

 explorer of Puget Sound and Panama and investigator of fish 

 osteology. Still other naturalists of the coming generation, 

 students of the present writer and of his life-long associate, 

 Professor Gilbert, have contributed in various degrees to the 

 present fabric of American ichthyology. Among them are 



