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a state were any of its fishes collected or studied. The first work was that 

 of Rafinesque in 1818. Then came a period of more than half a century 

 during which practically nothing was added to our knowledge of the fishes of 

 the state. But with the coming of Jordan to the state in 1874, the study 

 of the fish-fauna of Indiana began in earnest and has so continued to this 

 day. The streams and lakes of Indiana have been more carefully ex- 

 amined than have those of any other state. The fishes have been more care- 

 fully collected and studied and are better known. More species are known 

 from Indiana than from any other state. The Wabash has the richest fish 

 fauna of any river in the world; it has more than three times as many species 

 of fishes as are found in all the waters of the United States draining into the 

 Pacific. Lake Maxinkuckee, with its 63 species, has the richest fish fauna 

 of any lake in America, if not in the world. 



Practically all this work on the fishes of Indiana has been done by home 

 talent, by native Hoosiers and by others who came to the state to live and 

 do their scientific -work; but, great as has been their contribution to the ich- 

 thyology of Indiana, their contributions to the ichthyology of the rest of 

 the world are vastly greater. 



While much work has been done on the fishes of Indiana, a vast amount 

 still remains to be done. There are many streams and lakes in which there 

 has been no collecting. Indeed, not a single stream has been thoroughly 

 studied, and only one or two lakes have received even a fraction of the at- 

 tention they deserve. The geographic distribution of each species within the 

 state, its food, enemies, rate of growth, spawning habits, food value, and 

 ecological relations, are all important problems concerning wliich our knowl- 

 edge is far from complete. These are some of the jjroblems that the right 

 sort of State Fisli and Game Commission would take up for serious investi- 

 gation. 



Mammalocy 



Mention has already been made of Haymond's list of the mammals of 

 Franklin County, Indiana. Reference should also be made to a number of 

 general publications in the early part of the century in which some Indiana 

 mammals are mentioned. Audubon and Bachman in their quadrupeds of 

 North America, Vol. 2, 1851, mention the buffalo as having occurred in 

 Indiana. Robert Kennicott in his quadrupeds of Illinois, injurious and bene- 

 ficial to the farmer (18.56), refers to several mammals from Indiana. Pro- 

 fessor Baird in his mammals of the Pacific Railroad Survey, 18.57; Doctor 

 Jordan in the various editions of his Manual of Vertebrates (1876, 1878, 1880, 

 1888, 1890, 1899); Dr. J. A. Allen in his history of the American bison (1877), 

 Dr. Elliott (\)ues in his Fur-bearing animals (1877), and Cones and Allen in 

 their North American Rodentia, all make some references to c<'rtain mammals 

 as oecuring in Indiana. 



After Dr. Raymond, the next paper of a faunistic nature dealing with 



