REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. CXVII 



The San Marcos Eiver rises in a number of springs at the foot of a 

 limestone ledge or hill just above the town of the same name. These 

 springs together form a large, deep stream, from the bottom of which, 

 near the upper end, wells up the principal spring with such force and 

 in such quantity as to keep the surface of the river visibly convex 

 above it. Some distance down a dam has been built, and just below 

 the dam, at tlie edge of the town, is a tract of land about 25 acres in 

 extent, well situated for the purposes of a fish-cultural station, and 

 this will probably furnish the best advantages of any of the sites 

 examined. Just above the city of Austin, Barton Spring helps to form 

 Barton Creek, a good-sized stream, which empties into the Colorado 

 Eiver, and on the banks of which the State 'had formerly a hatching 

 station. The land here is still suitable for the same puri^ose, but its 

 extent may be too small. 



Prof. Evermann's report contains a full account of the features 

 observed at each of the places examined, together with brief notes on 

 the fishes and crustaceans collected, the preparation of a more com- 

 plete review of the aquatic fauna of the State having been necessarily 

 deferred until a later time. 



KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. 



The southern tributaries of the Cumberland River between Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., and the crossing of the Cincinnati Southern Eaiiroad in 

 Whitely County, Ky., a distance of over 150 miles following the main 

 curvatures of the river, were examined during August and September, 

 1891, by Mr. Philip H. Kirsch, superintendent of schools of Columbia 

 City, Ind. Fishes were collected in 20 different streams, including the 

 following affluents of the Cumberland, together with some of their 

 tributaries, namely: Stone Eiver, Spring Creek, Eound Lick, Carey 

 Fork Eiver, Eoaring Eiver, Obeys Eiver, Beaver Creek, and the Big 

 South Fork of the Cumberland. In Mr. Kirsch's report* the principal 

 characteristics of the several streams are briefly described, and the 

 fishes of each are enumerated in the form of annotated lists. The 

 largest number of species recorded from any one stream was 39 from 

 the Obeys Eiver. An account of previous investigations in Kentucky 

 by Mr. Kirsch and Mr. A. J. Woolman will be found in the last annual 

 report. 



INDIANA. 



Mr. Philip H. Kirsch began, on June 13, 1892, an investigation of the 

 fishes of the Eel Eiver basin in Indiana, which was continued into the 

 next fiscal year. This river, with its tributaries, lies between the main 

 branch of the Wabash Eiver and the Tippecanoe Eiver, and extends 



* Notes on a collection of fishes from the southern tributaries of the Cumberland 

 River in Kentucky and Tennessee. By Philip H. Kirsch. Bull. U. S. Fish Com., xi, 

 for 189J, pp. 259-268. 



