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for this purpose. Artificial keys also would have been an addi- 

 tional advantage; but, as references are given in every case to 

 bulletins 16 and 47 of the United States National Museum, which 

 contain complete series of artificial keys, this feature was 

 omitted. 



The author hopes ere long to prepare a new account of the 

 fishes of New York, containing illustrations of all the species, 

 together with keys for identification, but can not complete such 

 an undertaking till after the inland waters of the state have 

 been more thoroughly and systematically investigated. 



TARLETON H. BEAN 

 Washington D. C. 1902 



