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Teachers and others of this county formed an association similar to 

 that of the Academy of Sciences. Some one interested in a particular 

 branch was made curator of that branch and all specimens referred to 

 him. As a result we have a very fair collection of the fishes of this 

 county with exact locality labels, a complete set of the birds, including 

 several not known to occur elswhere in the state, {Dendro'ca kirtJandi) 

 and a similar list of the plants. Work as well done as this in every 

 county of the state would rapidly advance our knowledge of the habits 

 and distribution of the organisms in the state. 



Those countie^^ in which academies, colleges or universities are situa- 

 ted ought to lead in this respect. It is certainly the duty of the biologi- 

 cal departments of such institutions to make a survey of the surrounding 

 country and display its fauna and flora. While I deprecate the miscellan- 

 eous collections of odds and ends from nowhere and the ends of the world, 

 a systematic collection of the organisms displayed with proper labels 

 showing the geographical distribution would have a definite, scientific 

 and educational value. The data for the geographical distribution of In- 

 diana animals will be furnished in the reports of the survey. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDIANA FISHES. 



Indiana has had more than her share of American Ichthyologists ; in 

 fact, she has harbored at one time or another nearly as many as all the 

 other states put together. 



These have come in two widely separate periods. Rafinesque, the 

 author of the Ichthyologia ( )hiensis, and Le Sueur, both of whom were for 

 a time at New Harmony, published between 1814 and 1820. While works 

 of a general nature had an indirect bearing on the fishes of Indiana, 

 nothing appeared on the fishe* of Indiana between 1820 and 1875. All 

 the more recent work has been due to the presence in Indiana of David 

 Starr Jordan. It may be noted here that Jordan's first Ichthyological 

 venture was the publication of a description of the Sisco of Lake Tippe- 

 canoe, in 1875, and his last Indiana effort the description of a new fish 

 from the Tippecanoe river, 1890. 



About Jordan there arose a group of his pupils, all of whom have added 

 something to the knowledge of the fishes of the state. 



The names of these which owed their inspiration directly or indirectly 

 to Jordan are Copeland, Brayton, Gilbert, Hay, IMcKay, Rosa Smith 



