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the Ohio, for which the author says he is indebted to the "politeness of that 

 accomplished and skiUful naturalist, Mr. Rafinesque." 



In 1823, D. H. Barnes pubhshed a paper on the genera Unio and Alas- 

 modonta in which some Indiana shells are described and figured. live 

 years later Barnes published another paper entitled Reclamation of Unios. 



In the general works of Poulson, Conrad, Lea, Binney, Prime, Stimpson, 

 Tryon, Harper and Wetherby, Call, Wright, Walker and others, will be found 

 much of value and interest, but practically nothing relating to moUusks as 

 a part of the fauna of Indiana. 



Not imtil 1844, or 10 years after the death of Say, was anything further 

 published on the shells of this state. In that year. Dr. John T. Plummer 

 published in the American Journal of Science and Arts, a list of the shells 

 observed about Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. About 30 species are 

 recorded. In the summer of 1875 Dr. George M. Levette of Indianapolis, 

 in connection with his study of the lakes of northern Indiana, made consid- 

 erable collections of shells in that region. The species were listed in the State 

 Geological Survey report for 1875. Mr. John W. Byrkit of Indianapolis 

 identified the univalves of which there are 19 species and subspecies in the 

 list. Besides these there are 20 species of Unionidae. 



Five years later (1880) Mr. Fred Stein contributed to the Indiana Geologi- 

 cal Survey Report a paper on the moUusks of the state. This appears to 

 have been the first attempt to catalogue the moUusks of the entire state. 

 In 1885 Dr. R. Ellsworth Call (Brooklyn, N. Y., May 13, 1856-1916) pubHsh- 

 ed a paper on the geographic distribution ot the Unionidae of the Mississippi 

 Valley. 



Then followed a number of valuable papers by Dr. Call: On the genus 

 Campeloma, in 1886, and 1887; Contribution to a knowledge of Indiana 

 Mollusca, in 1894; On the Geographic and hypsometric distribution of North 

 American Viviparidse, in 1894; The Unionidae of the Ohio River, in 1894; The 

 Strepomatidse of the Falls of the Ohio, in 1894; A Revision and Synonymy 

 of the Parvus group of the Unionidae, in 1896; Second Contiibution to a 

 knowledge of Indiana Mollusca, in 1896; On a small collection of MoUusks 

 from Northern Indiana, in 1896; Fishes and shells of the Falls of the Ohio, in 

 1896; and the hydrographic basins of Indiana and their moUuscan fauna, 

 in 1897. 



The most voluminous and complete contribution to the conehology of 

 Indiana is that by Dr. R. Ellsworth Call, a Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue 

 of the Mollusca of Indiana, printed in the 24th Annual Report of the Indiana 

 Geological Survey for 1899. This document lists 186 species of mollusks 

 for the state, and is by far the most valuable contribution to Indiana con- 

 ehology. 



In the 26th annual report of the Indiana Department of Geology and 

 Natural Resources, for 1901. Mr. L. E. Daniels has a useful Check-list of 



