50 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1§62 — Notes ou rare and little-known fishes taken at Madeira. By James Yate 

 Johnson, cor. mem. Z. S. No. II. <Anual8 and Mag. Nat Hist., (3,) v. 10, 

 pp. 274-287, Oct., 1862. 



1§70 — Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum. By Albekt Gcntiieh, M. A., M. 



D., etc A'olume eighth. Loudon: printed by order of the trustees. 



1870. [=Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidit, 

 Symbranchida;, Murienida', Pegasid*, and of the [orders] Lophobranchii, 

 Plectoguathi, [and sub-classes] Dipnoi, Ganoidei, Chondropterygii, Cy- 



clostouiata, Leptocardii, in the British Museum London : printed 



by order of the trustees. 1870. — 8°, xxv, 549 pp.] 



lS7d — Arrangement of the families of Fishes, or classes Pisces, Marsipobranchii, and 

 Leptocardii. Prepared for the Smithsonian Instittition. By Theodore 

 Gill, M. D., Ph. D. Washington : published by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. November, 1872. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 247. — 

 8", xlvi, 49 pp.] 



1§73 — Catalogue of the Fishes of the east coast of North America. By Theodore 

 Gill, M. D., Ph. D. Washington : published by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 1873. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 283. — 2 p. 1., .50 pp.) 

 [Published originally in "United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. 

 — Part I. — Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast 

 of New England in 1871 and 1872. By Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. — 

 With supplementary papers. — Washington: Government Printing Office 

 1873.— Pp. 779— 822=pp. 1—44 of Catalogue."] 



1877 — The Museum of Natural History, being a popular ace mnt of the structure, 

 habits, and classification of the animal kingdom, [etc.]. By Sir John 

 Richardson, [etc.]. With a History of the American Fauna by Joseph 

 B. Holder, M. D. [etc.]. Vol. II. New York : Virtue & Yorston. 



18§0— An Introduction to the Study of Fishes. By Albert C. L. GtJNTHER [etc.]. 

 Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black. 1880. 



1882 — Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. By David S. Jordan and Charles 

 H.Gilbert. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1883. [&'-, Ivi, 

 1018pp.=Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 16.] 



1883 — On the anatomy and relations of the Eurypharyngida\ By Theodore 

 <jIll and John A. Ryder. <;Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 6, pp. 262-273, 

 December 13, 1883. 



1884 — What are the Saccopharyngoid Fishes! [Signed Tiieo. Gill.] <Nature, 

 V. 29, p. 236, January 10, 1884. 



There are also a number of works in which Saccopharyngidse are cas- 

 ually mentioned, but it is here noteworthy that they find no place in 

 the systematic essays of Bonaparte, Kaup, Richardson, Cope, et al. In 

 the later zoological manuals {eg. Cams, Claus, Duncan) the views of 

 Dr. Giiuther are copied. 



11. 



HISTORY. • 



In 1824, Dr. S. L. Mitchill, in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural 

 History of New York (v. 1, pp. 82-8G), contributed a " description of an 

 extraordinary fish resembling the Stylephorus of iShaw." The fish in 

 question was presented to Dr. Mitchill by Capt. Hector Coffin, and " was 

 taken daring a voyp.ge from Londonderry to New York, in latitude 52 



