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some of the Lakes of Northern Indiana" was transmitted to Prof. E. T. Cox, 

 State Geologist, December 31, 1875. It is printed as pp. 469-503, of the 

 Indiana Geological Survey Report for 1875. 



Caleb Cooke, who was Dr. Levette's assistant in these investigations, 

 was one of the curators in the Peabody Museum at Salem, Massachusetts. 

 Dr. Levette speaks of him as a "gentleman of extended and varied experi- 

 ence in collecting and preserving natural history specimens for museum use, 

 as well as for scientific study." Mr. Cooke being associated in the same 

 institution with Prof. F. W. Putnam, an arrangement was effected by which 

 all the fishes collected would be examined by Professor Putnam, and full 

 suites of the species collected, properly labeled, would be supplied to the 

 State Museum at Indianapolis; and all new species figured and described in the 

 Indiana Geological Survey reports. This arrangement, however, was never 

 carried out. 



While Prof. E. T. Cox was not a zoologist, he was nevertheless appreciative 

 of the importance of making known the fauna and flora of the state. He 

 did much to call attention to these natural resources of Indiana, and in his 

 various reports as State Geologist are found numerous references to the birds, 

 mammals, fishes and mollusks of our commonwealth. 



Ichthyology 



The greatest impetus ever given to zoological research and investigation 

 in Indiana occurred when David Starr Jordan (Gainesville, N. Y., Jan. 19, 

 1851 — ), came to Indianapolis in 1874 as a teacher of natural history in the 

 high school of that city. He was then a young man scarcely out of his teens, 

 of great physical and mental vigor, with unbounded energy and enthusiasm, 

 and already appreciative of the richness of the fauna and flora of the state. 

 After one year in the Inaianapolis high school Jordan was called to the pro- 

 fessorship of natural history in the Northwestern Christian University (now 

 Butler University) at Irvington, and his college chum at Cornell, Herbert 

 Edson Copeland, came to take his place in the high school. Copeland was 

 also interested in fishes and he and Dr. Jordan spent many a happy day along 

 Fall Creek, Pogue's Rim and White River observing, collecting and studying 

 the fishes which inhabit those waters. This was the beginning of serious 

 study of the fish fauna of Indiana, and one of the most delightful nature 

 stories that has ever been written resulted directly from these days spent 

 along Fall Creek. I refer to the story of the "Johnny Darters" by Jordan 

 and Copeland, published in the American Naturalist for 1876. 



Herbert Copeland (1849 — Indianapolis, 1876) was an enthusiastic student 

 of these fishes, and a most active and well-equipped naturalist, whose early 

 death at Indianapolis in 1876 deprived American Ichthyology of one of its 

 ablest workers. 



Fortunately for the Indianapolis schools and for Indiana, another of 

 Jordan's college associates came to take the place in the high school made 



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