ADVERTISEMENT. 



The following Catalogue of the Fishes of the east coast of North 

 America was prepared by Dr. Theodore Gill as an Appendix to the 

 renort of the IT. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1871-2.* 

 Numerous applications having been made for separate copies of the 

 catalogue, it is now issued as one of the publications of the "Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections." 



JOSEPH HENRY, 



Secretary S. I. 



* United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. — Part I. — Report on the Con- 

 dition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of ITcw England in 1871 and 1872. By 

 Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. — With supplementary papers. — Washington: 

 Government Printing Cuke. 1873. (Pp. 779— 822=pp. 1—44 of Catalogue.) 



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