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i§56— Coutributions to the Ichthyology of the Western Coast of the United States, 

 from specimens in the Museum of Smithsonian Institution. By Charles 

 Girard, M. D. June 24, 1H5G. <^ Proc. Acad. Kat. Sci. Phila., v. 8, pp. 

 131-137, 185.'). 



[N". g. and n. sp. Paralahrax (n. g., 131), Homalopomus (n. j;.) Trowbrid^ri (132), Ohgo- 

 coitus (n. g., 132) maculosus (133), Lcioeottus (d. g.) hirundo (133), Artcd.iis (i. g., 134), Arte- 

 dius notonpilotus (134), Sebastes melanops (135), Oplopoma (n. t') panrherina (135), Gaste- 

 rosteus intermedins (135), Gasterosteus pugetii (135), Gobius Newherryi (13G), Embiottca argy- 

 rosoma (13t)), Coregonus Williamsoni (136), Platichtliys 'iimbrosvs (136), Pleunnichthys giMu- 

 latus (137), Ammodytes personatus (137), Rhiaoptera vespertiLo (137).] 



Researches upon the Cyprinoids inhabiting the fiesh water Fishes of the United 

 States of America, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the 

 Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. By Charles Girard, M. D. Sept. 

 30, 1856. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 8, pp. 165--213, 1856. 



[N. g. and n. sp. Mylocheilus fraterculus (169), Catoitomus (Acomuy, n. a. g.) gcncromix 

 (174), Catostormis macrockeilus (175), GatoUomus bernardini (175), Algansea (a. g.), Algan- 

 sea bicolor (183), Algansea obesa (183), Algansea formosa (183), Lavinia harengus (184), 

 Argyreus nubilus (186), Argyreus oncxdus (186), Argyreits notabilin (186), Agosia (n. g), Agosia 

 chrysugaster (\87), Agosia in etallica (1S~), Med a (u. g.) fulgida (19'^), Jiickardscnius (n. g.) 

 lateralis (20:}), Tiaroga (u. g.) cobitis (204), Tigoma (a. g.), Tigoma bicolor (206), Tigoma pur- 

 purea (206), Tigoma intermedia (200), Tigoma obesa (206), Tigoma Uu-mboldti (206), Tigoma 

 lineata (206), Tigoma gracilis (20b), Tigoma nigrescens (207), Tlgoiua crassa (207), Chconda 

 (n.g.), Oheonda Cooperi (207), Cheonda coerulea (207), Siboma (a. g.) atraria (208), Vtychochei- 

 lus rapax (209), Ptychocheilus lucius (209), Ptycliocheilus vorax (209). l 



Notic ■ upon tbe Species of tbe Genus Salmo of authors, observed cbiefly in 

 Oregon and California. By Charles Girard, M. D. Oct. 28, 1856. <] Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 8, pp. 217-220, 1856. 



[N". sp. Salm,o spectabilis {^V), Fario aurora (218), Fario argyretis (21^), Fario btcllatu>' 

 (219), Solar Lew isi (219), Salar vigina.is (220).] 



* 33d Congress, | 2d Session. > House of Representatives. < Ex. Doc. | No. 97. | = | 



Narrative | of | the Ex^,edition of an American Squadron | to | the China 

 Seas and Japan, j performed in tbe years 1852, 1853 and 1854, | under the 

 command of | Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, | by | orderofthe 

 Government of the United States. | — | Volume II. With illustrations. | — 

 I Washington: | A. O. P. Nicholson, printer. | 1850. [4°, 4 p. 1., 414 pp.; 

 [Treaty,] 2 p. 1., 14 pp.; [Index,] iii-xi pp., 1 1.] 

 Notes on some figures of Japanese Fish, taiien from recent specimens by 

 tbe artists of the U. S. Japan Expedition. By James Carson Bre- 

 voort. (pp. 253-256, pi. iii-xii.) 



[Contains notice of Ditrema and first notice of tbe recognition of the afiiniiy between 

 the Embiotocoids of Califoruia and the Japanese genus.] 



33d Congress, 2d Session. | Senate. 5 Ex. Doc. No. 78. | ^= ] Reports | of | Explo- 

 rations and Surveys, I to I ascertaiu tbe most practicable and ecouomical route 

 for a railroad | from tbe | Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean | made under 

 the direction of the Secretary of War, | in 1853-4, | according to actsof Con- 

 gress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August -5, 1854. I — I Volume V. | — | 

 Washington : | Beverley Tucker, Printer. | 1856. 



Explorations and Surveys for a railroad route from tbe Mississippi River 

 to tbe Pacific Ocean. | War Department. | = | Routesiu California, tocon- 

 nect with tbe routes near the thirty-fifth and thirty-second | parallels, 

 explored by Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps Topogra])bical Engineers, in 

 1853. I — I Geological report, [ by | William P. Blake, | Geologist and 

 Mineralogist of the Expedition, j [With appendix.] | — | Washington, 

 D. C. I 1857. = 



Appendix. — Article I. Notice of the fossil fishes. — By Professor Louis 

 Agassiz.— (pp. 313-316, and 1 plate ("Fossils plate 1") ) 



