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Caudell, Crawford and Barber of Washington, and Professors 

 Osborn and Hine of Ohio State University. Helpful lists of 

 I^orth Carolina material in their collections have been received 

 from Cornell University, and from Messrs. Englehardt, of 

 Brooklyn, Nason of Illinois, and Fenyes of California. Of 

 persons now or in the past resident in the state and from whose 

 work valuable help has come are : Mr. H. K. Morrison, formerly 

 resident at Morganton ; Prof. G. F. Atkinson of Cornell, form- 

 erly at our State University; Kev. A. H. Manee at Southern 

 Pines, Mr. C. S. Brimley of Raleigh, and several men who 

 have been associated with the speaker in the State Department 

 of Agriculture, notably Messrs. Bentley, Woglum, Z. P. Met- 

 calf and more recently his brother C. L. Metcalf. Doubtless 

 there are others whom I have not mentioned but this is enough 

 to "show that the work upon our insect fauna has been by no 

 means a one-man task. Merely a good start has been made upon 

 this enormous, complex and yet highly important group. 

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We now come to 'the vertebrated animals, forms with which 

 we are more familiar, but in which each group contains, as com- 

 pared with the insects, only a small number of species. First 

 of these is the fishes. 



IV. the fishes 



Wliile E"orth Carolina is well supplied with streams and 

 these streams are inhabited by a representative variety of native 

 fishes, yet the vast majority of species which can be claimed as 

 belonging to the fauna of the state, are found in. our coastal 

 waters. Fresh-water forms have been collected in the past by 

 Messrs. H. H. and C. S. Brimley, and by such world authori- 

 ties as Jordan and Everman, but it was not until after the estab- 

 lishment of the Biological Laboratory at Beaufort, that com- 

 prehensive data began to accumulate in regard to our marine 

 forms, and it remained for Dr. Hugh M. Smith, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Fish and Fisheries, to bring the data together in the 

 'Tishes of ISTorth Carolina," published by our Geological and 

 Economic Survey in 1907. It is indeed a splendid volume, 

 and sets a high standard for works of this kind, and places our 



