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Abbott, of Trenton, for much of his interest and assistance, 
especially in consenting to go over the work on Delaware River 
fishes and advancing many important suggestions. To Dr. Bar- 
ton W. Evermann, of the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington, 
D. C., for matter relative to this work. To Prof. Ulric Dahl- 
geren, of Princeton University, for some information on New 
Jersey fishes. Further I am indebted to Dr. Abbott, Mr. Witmer 
Stone, Mr. Thomas D. Keim, Mr. David McCadden, Mr. 
William J. Fox, Mr. I. N. DeHaven, Mr. Paul Lorrilliere, Mr. 
S. P. G. Lindsay, Mr. W. S. Sutch, Mr. H. Walker Hand, and 
many others, for much assistance, especially in conducting 
fishing excursions. Of these I am sure many will long be 
remembered with pleasure. Mr. Hand has been exceptionally 
kind in forwarding nearly complete information of the more 
abundant fishes of Cape May and has always exerted himself 
to the utmost to make our trips in that region a success. Mr. 
Fox has made very fair collections of the fishes of Sea Isle City 
and kindly placed much information at my disposal. Mr. Keim 
has also helped in every way to make our New Jersey trips suc- 
cessful, some of which are the most important we have yet 
realized. 
Special mention is here made of the permission extended by 
the Hon. Benj. P. Morris, President of the Fish and Game 
Commissioners of New Jersey, to the writer, to collect fishes 
with nets. This has been used in connection with his work on 
the large collections of fishes in the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia with most satisfactory results. 
The figures used in this report are reproductions of those pub- 
lished in 1884 by Dr. G. B. Goode in his Natural History of 
useful and aquatic animals, in the Report of the Fishery In- 
dustry of the United States. Also a number are taken from 
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 47, volume IV, comprising the figures 
to the Fishes of North and Middle America by Drs. D. S. 
Jordan and B. W. Evermann. Besides these I have added a 
few pen-drawings of my own. 
In concluding I may state that few realize the imperfections 
of this work more than the writer, and though making no excuse 
