202 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Apparently this prospectus and a first broeliiire of six leaflets accom- 

 panied by five plates, is all of this work which was ever published. Some 

 other parts and a number of original drawings, are among the articles which 

 LeSueur's family deposited in the library of the Museum of Natural History 

 at Paris. 



After the death of Thomas Say, a number of jears passed before any 

 naturalist appeared to continue the studj" of the fauna of Indiana. So far 

 as I have been able to learn it was not until sometime in the .50's that we had 

 another productive zoologist -wdthin our borders. This was Dr. Rufus 

 Haymond of Brookville. Dr. Haymond was a practicing physician of Brook- 

 ville with a deep interest in natural history. He apparently was a keen ob- 

 server with the instincts of a real naturalist. He not onlj' noted the species 

 of animals that came under his observation, but he studied their habits, 

 abundance, and distribution. He was especially interested in mammals 

 and birds. In 1856 he published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences of Philadelphia, a paper on the "Birds of Southeastern Indiana," 

 in which he lists 138 species. Thirteen years later, in the Eleventh Annual 

 Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture and the Report of Prof. 

 E. T. Cox, State Geologist, for 1869, Dr. Haymond published lists of the 

 mammals and birds of Franklin County, Indiana. 



On pages 203-208 of this report is found his list of the "Mammals found 

 at the present time in Franklin County." In this, the first faunal list of 

 the mammals of Indiana, Dr. Haymond records 32 species. The list is an- 

 notated with many interesting and valuable notes on the liabits and abun- 

 dance of the various species. 



Speaking of the otter, he thinks it barely i)ossil)le that a few still linger 

 along the Whitewater, but he had seen none for many years. He says 

 the last black bear was seen in the country aliout 1839. "They once were 

 very numerous and their claw marks may still be seen on the smooth bark of 

 hundreds of beech trees." Speaking of gray squirrels and black squirrels he 

 believed them to be different species, contrary to the view held by mamma- 

 logists. He states that "30 to 40 years ago about one in six of the squirrels 

 was black but now (1869) there are no black squirrels in southeastern In- 

 diana." 



Pages 209-23.') of the same report are devoted to the "Birds of Franklin 

 County, Indiana." This list is an extremely interesting one. The total 

 number of species recorded is 163, and Dr. Haymond remarks: "This con- 

 cludes the list of all the birds of the county which 1 have observed and been 

 able to identify. Doubtless many others visit this section Avhich I have not 

 observed, and I have seen manj^ which I have not been able to identify." 



His annotations are so interesting that I feel constrained to quote a few 

 of them, as they will impress us with the great changes which have taken 

 place in our avi-fauna in the last 50 years. 



