U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 2 82 



Source of Material 



Representatives of the genus Noturus from the following collections 

 have been studied. The abbreviations are those used throughout the 

 text in referring to the material. If not included here, further data 

 pertaining to specimens in the collections indicated by an asterisk 

 may often be found in Taylor (1955). 



AF Mississippi State Game and Fish Commission, Jackson, 



Mississippi* 



ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia* 



BMNH British Museum (Natural History) 



CM Charleston Museum* 



CNHM Field Museum (formerly Chicago Natural History Museum) * 



CU Cornell University* 



DBUF University of Florida* 



FSU Florida State University 



INHS Illinois Natural History Survey* 



lU Indiana University (Note: Gerking (1945) listed his collec- 



tion of Indiana fishes now at Indiana University. An older 

 collection, formerly at Indiana University, has been 

 partially transferred to the University of Michigan. It 

 bears the abbreviation lU, in parentheses after the ab- 

 breviation UMMZ, since it has not been fully cataloged 

 into the Michigan collection.) 



KU Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas* 



MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 



MNHN Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 



NCSM North Carolina State Museum, Raleigh 



0AM Oklahoma State University* 



OSU Ohio State Museum (chiefly the former Franz Theodore 



Stone Laboratory collection), Ohio State University* 



OU Museum of Zoology, University of Oklahoma* 



SMF Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfort 



am Main 



SU Division of Systematic Biology, Stanford University* 



TNHC University of Texas* 



TU Tulane University 



Tulsa U Tulsa University* 



UGa University of Georgia 



UL University of Louisville 



UMinn University of Minnesota 



UMML University of Miami, Institute of Marine Science 



UMMZ Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan* 



UMoMZ University of Missouri Museum of Zoology 



USNM United States National Museum 



Vanderbilt U Vanderbilt University 



Specimens of the blind catfishes, in addition to those in Tulane 

 University and the United States National Museum, were loaned 

 by the Witte (now Texas) Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, 

 and the Instituto Mexican© de Recursos Naturales Renovables, 

 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. 



