MEMOLRS 
OF THE 
CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
VOL. VI. NO. 4. 
RECORD OF THE FISHES OBTAINED IN JAPAN IN 1911. 
By Davin Srarr JoRDAN AND WILLIAM FRANCIS THOMPSON. 
(Purates XXIV—XLII.) 
The senior author spent the summer and autumn of 1911 in Japan and 
Korea in the interest of International Conciliation under the auspices of the World 
Peace Foundation. 
His naturalist friends in Japan at once began to make collections of fishes for 
him, at the same time cheerfully assisting him in his efforts to study the fishes in 
the scant leisure which his other occupations allowed. A large collection was 
obtained and through the courtesy of Mr. Asano and Mr. Shiraishi of the Toyo 
Kisen Kaisha delivered without charge in California. About three hundred and 
ninety species were obtained in Japan. This collection which forms the subject 
of this paper is shared between the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, and Stanford 
University. The types are in the former institution, as the new species are pub- 
lished under its auspices. 
The collection consists of the following: 
1. A large collection made by Mr. Alan Owston of Yokohama, covering various 
localities in Japan, the most valuable materials being dredged by him in his steamer, 
the ‘‘ Golden Hind.”’ Many valuable specimens from Mr. Owston’s collections were 
obtained by Jordan and Snyder in 1900. Other new species obtained from him 
have been described by Mr. Shigeho Tanaka, and by naturalists in Europe. 
2. A collection made at Misaki by Mr. Kumakichi Aoki, fisherman at the 
Seaside Laboratory of the Imperial University of Tokyo, under the direction of 
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