2 ART, I. — JORDAN, TANAKA AND SNVDER : 



Museum collections, by Hilgen'dorf from collections made by himself 

 about Tökvö, and by Steixdachxer and Döderlkix from collections 

 made by the latter naturalist about Tokyo, Köchi and Kagoshima. 

 Two local catalogues were published by Japanese authors, the one by 

 Namiye in 1881 (Classified Catalogue of the Specimens of Vertebrates 

 in the Collections of the Educational Museum) and the other by Ishi- 

 kawa and Matscura in 1897 (Prehminary Catalogue of Fishes, includ- 

 ing Dipnoi, Cyclostomi and Cephalochorda in the Collection of the Natural 

 History Department, Imperial Museum). In 1901, all these scattered 

 records were gathered together as a Preliminary Check List of the Fishes 

 of Japan bv Jokdax and Sxyder published in the Annota tiones Zoolog- 

 icfe Japonenses of the Tokyo Zoological Society. In that Check List, 

 686 species were included, man}^ of them onh^ nominalh^ known and 

 many not really belonging to the fauna of Japan proper. In the same 

 vear Professors Jordax and Sxyder visited Japan, making large collec- 

 tions at various points from Otaru to Nagasaki. The results of this 

 exploration, including over 250 species not previously recorded from 

 Japan, have been made known in a series of memoirs in the Proceedings 

 of the United States National Museum, written b}^ Dr. Jordan with the 

 aid of his associates, Gilbert, Sxyder, Starks, Richardson, Fowler, 

 Herre, Se ale and Thompson. These papers will give Japanese workers 

 a basis for local studies in bringing together the scattered literature of 

 the subject and indicating the names the different species should properly 

 bear under the rules of nomenclature accepted b}^ the zoologists of the 

 world. A second expedition under direction of Professors Gilbert and 

 Sxyder in charge of the steamer " Albatross " was made in 1900. Of 

 the specimens obtained, only the shore species have been thus far 

 recorded. The deep-sea species, upwards of 200 in number, are yet to 

 be recorded bv Professor Gilbert. 



Since 1906, numerous papers have been written on Japanese fishes. 

 Dr. Schmidt of St. Petersburg has described his collections from the 

 Ochotsk Sea. Dr. Bashford Deax has written on collections from 

 Misaki, Saganii. Specimens obtained by the veteran collector, Mr. Alan 

 OwsTox of Yokohama, have been described in various museums of the 



