MBMOIES 



OF THE 



CAENEGIE MUSEUM. 



V^OL. VI. NO. 4. 



RECORD OF THE FISHES OBTAINED IN JAPAN IN 1911. 



By David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. 



(Plates XXIV-XLII.) 



The senior author spent the summer and autumn of 1911 in Japan and 

 Korea in the interest of International Concihation under the auspices of the World 

 Peace Foundation. 



His naturahst friends in Japan at once began to make collections of fishes for 

 him, at the same time cheerfully assisting him in his efforts to study the fishes in 

 the scant leisure which his other occupations allowed. A large collection was 

 obtained and through the courtesy of Mr. Asano and Mr. Shiraishi of the Toyo 

 Kisen Kaisha delivered without charge in Cahfornia. About three hundred and 

 ninety species were obtained in Japan. This collection which forms the subject 

 of this paper is shared between the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, and Stanford 

 University. The types are in the former institution, as the new species are pub- 

 lished under its auspices. 



The collection consists of the following: 



1. A large collection made by Mr. Alan Owston of Yokohama, covering various 

 localities in Japan, the most valuable materials being dredged by him in his steamer, 

 the " Golden Hind." Many valuable specimens from Mr. Owston's collections were 

 obtained by Jordan and Snyder in 1900. Other new species obtained from him 

 have been described by Mr. Shigeho Tanaka, and by naturalists in Europe. 



2. A collection made at Misaki by Mr. Kumakichi Aoki, fisherman at the 

 Seaside Laboratory of the Imperial University of Tokyo, under the direction of 



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