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vacant by the death of the lamented Copeland. This was Alembert Win- 

 throp Brayton, our o'wn distinguished fellow member, Dr. Brayton, who has 

 ever since been a resident of Indianapolis, who has brought honor and renown 

 to the city and the state, and whom we all love and delight to honor. Pro- 

 fessor Brayton at once became associated with Dr. .Jordan in ichthj^ological 

 investigations. 



Dr. Jordan's career as ichthyologist and all round naturalist may be said 

 to date from his arrival at Indianapolis in 1874. Indeed, the first new species 

 of fish Dr. Jordan ever described came from Indiana. This was the Cisco 

 and the type locality is Tippecanoe Lake. The specimens were collected 

 by Judge J. N. Carpenter of Warsaw, Indiana, and were by Prof. E. T. Cox 

 turned over to Dr. Jordan who described them under the name Argyrosomus 

 sisco, in the American Naturalist, Vol. IX, for 1875. And it is an interesting 

 and singular coincidence that the last new species of fish Dr. Jordan has de- 

 scribed from Indiana is Etheosloma tippecanoe from the outlet of that lake. 



The considerable collection of fishes made in the small lakes in northern 

 Indiana in the summer of 1875 bj- Caleb Cooke under the direction of Dr. 

 Levette, and which, it Avas originalh' intended would be reported on by 

 Professor F. W. Putnam, was really turned over to Dr. Jordan who published 

 a full report thereon in Vol. 29 of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia in 1877. In this paper 10 new species were described. 

 From this time on fish papers from Dr. -lordan's pen or from those of his stu- 

 d'Uts and collaborators came thick and fast, and many of these papers related 

 to the fish fauna of Indiana. 



I do not know that I can do better than to enumerate the students and 

 others who received their inspiration directly or indirectly from Dr. Jordan 

 and who have contributed to our knowledge of the fishes of Indiana. In 

 doing so I may be permitted to comment briefly on the work they did. 



As already mentioned the first to be associated A\ith Dr. Jordan in ichthy- 

 ological Avork was Herbert Copeland. Then came Alembert W. Brayton, 

 Charles H. Gilbert, Joseph Swain, Seth Eugene Meek, Carl H. Eigenmann, 

 Elizabeth Hughes, Charles L. Pklwards, Morton W. Fordice, Barton Warren 

 Everniann, David Kopp Goss, Bert Fesler, Willis Stanley Blatchley, Charles 

 Harvey Bollman, William L. Bray, Oliver P. Jenkins, Howard Walton Clark, 

 Fletcher F^. Dresslar, Martin Luther Hoffman, Jennie E. Horning (Mrs. 

 Francis M. Walters), Chancey Judaj', Clarence Hamilton Kennedy, Edward 

 M. Kindle, Philip N. Kirsch, Charles Leslie McKay, William J. Moenkhaus, 

 Robert Nevvland, Herbert G. Reddick, Douglass Clay Ridgley, Albert B. 

 Ulrey, Joseph H. Voris, Fred C. Test, Albert J. Woolman, Ulysses O. Cox, 

 J. Rollin Slonaker, and doubtless others. 



Nearly all of this rather formidable list of zoologists were students of 

 Dr. Jordan, chiefly at Indiana University, where he went from Butler Uni- 

 versity in 1879. 



in the spring or early summer of 1879 it became known that a professor 



