8 THE FISHES OF OHIO. 
This was followed in January, 1889, by a second paper, more 
general in its nature, adding forty species noted at various points 
in the state, and making a state list of a hundred and ten species 
noted by himself. Localities were given for all the species 
mentioned. 
In 1892 appeared ‘‘ A Descriptive List of the fishes of Lorain 
County, Ohio,’’ as ‘‘ Laboratory Bulletin No. 2,’’ of Oberlin 
College, by Mr. L. M. McCormick. This list includes eighty- 
eight species ‘‘ resting upon specimens preserved in the museum,’’ 
with brief descriptions, and notes on occurrence and habits, and 
with plates of eighteen species. 
In 1893, Dr. Philip H. Kirsch, at that time Fish Commis- 
sioner of Indiana, investigated the Maumee River and its tribu- 
taries, under the direction of the U. S. Commission of Fish and 
Fisheries. Kirsch’s paper, ‘‘ Report upon Investigations in the 
Maumee River Basin During the Summer of 1893’’ (Bull. U.S. 
Fish Com., 1894), includes a list of eighty-seven species of fishes, 
with descriptions of the streams and lakes of the system, and 
many interesting notes. The report includes the unpublished 
notes of a small collection of fishes made in Defiance County by 
Prof. S. E. Meek, in 1887. Although the investigations covered 
portions of the Maumee Basin in Indiana and Michigan as well as 
in Ohio, the occurrences for each locality are definitely noted, 
and eighty-two of the eighty-seven species mentioned by Kirsch 
are recorded for localities in Ohio. 
In the summer of 1897, Mr. E. B. Williamson and the writer 
investigated the streams of Franklin County, and published the 
results in a paper entitled ‘‘A List of the Fishes of Franklin 
County, Ohio, with a description of a new species of Etheostoma, 
by R. C. Osburn and E. B. Williamson ’’ (Sixth Annual Proceed- 
ings of the Ohio State Academy of Science, 1898). The list 
includes sixty-nine species, with occurrence notes, and some color 
notes on the rarer species, together with many breeding dates, 
and a table showing distribution. 
A somewhat similar investigation was carried on in the sum- 
mer of 1898, by Messrs. J. B. Parker, E. B. Williamson and the 
writer, and the results appeared in the Seventh Annual Proceed- 
ings of the Ohio State Academy of Science, 1899, under the title, 
