1885.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 193 



Vol. VIII, No. 13. IVashingrton, ©. C. June ^, 1883. 



Millimeters. 



Greatest thickness of body 130 



Height of head at eye 85 



Length of snout 76 



Width of snout at nostrils 88 



Distance from snout to eye, obliquely 98 



Distance from tip of snout to vent 572 



Distance from tip of snout to nostril 77 



Tip of snout to posterior margin of mouth 119 



Distance from tip of snout to first gill-opening 205 



Distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal 570 



Distance from tip of snout to spii'acle, obliquely 148 



Distance between nostrils in front > 43 



Width of mouth 57 



Width of superior dental lamina 50 



Width of inferior dental lamina 35 



Extent of projection of inferior dental lamina 20 



Length of eye 36 



Length of iris 14 



Interorbital width on the bone 86 



Distance between anterior gill openings 155 



Distance between posterior gill-openings 100 



Length of third gill-opening 20 



Length of surface occupied by gill-openings 89 



Length of nasal flap from anterior margin of nostril 44 



Greatest width of nasal flap 63 



Distance from spiracle to tip of pectoral 478 



Greatest length of spiracle 47 



Greatest width of spiracle 31 



Length of dorsal base 36 



Length of middle ray of dorsal 36 



Length of last ray of dorsal 23 



Length of ventral, including cartilaginous prominence 157 



Greatest width of ventral 73 



Height of tail at root 23 



Width of tail at root 28 



ON THE AMERICAN FISHES IN THE LINN^AN COLLECTION. 

 By O. BROl^BT OOODE and TARLETOIV H. BEAIV. 



Alexander Garden, one of the earliest American naturalists, was a 

 physician, resident in Charleston, South Carolina, in the middle of the 

 last century. He was an enthusiastic collector and in constant corre- 

 spondence with the great Swedish naturalist, many of his lettervS, with 

 the accompanying notes upon his collections, being i)reserved iu the two 

 volumes of Smith's " Correspondence of Linnseus." 



He was more especially a botanist, and his contributions to science 

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