1913!] Reluctant Farewell to Fishes 



books in which you have appealed for a clean and manly life, 

 and your earnest exhortations to high thinking and noble action. 

 May your pen be increasingly active during the years that are 

 to come, and may God fill your life with the best success. 



During the spring Jordan, Tanaka, and Snyder 

 issued an extensive catalogue of the fishes of Japan, 1 

 1237 species arranged in about 600 genera - - being 

 therein enumerated. The same year, assisted by 

 Will F. Thompson, I wrote two elaborate papers on the 

 fishes obtained by me in Japan and Korea in 1911. 

 The results of this general study made a considerable 

 volume with which I intended to close my scientific 

 labors, afterward devoting myself to the promotion 

 of international understanding. Toward the end of 

 Linnaeus' work on plants he is reported to have said 

 "good night" to Botany by naming his final species 

 " Convolvulus bona-nox." Remembering the incident, 

 I called the last of my Japanese fishes, a "rat-tail" 

 or grenadier, " Corypheenoides bona-nox" It was not, 

 however, a final good night, as the onset of war 

 rendered further peace work futile, and I turned back Return 

 with genuine pleasure to the study of material fi rstlo " je 

 realities, my first considerable production being a 

 review of the Silversides or atherine fishes of the 

 world, written in collaboration with Carl L. Hubbs, 

 one of my students. 



During the early part of 1913 the anti-Japanese Ami- 

 agitation came to a head in California. This whole 

 matter is badly complicated by racial prejudice, 

 economic rivalry, political opportunism, and ignorance 



1 Published by the Imperial University of Tokyo. See Chapter xxxvin, 

 page 379. 



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