356 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



from Fort Eiley. Fort Riley was on the Kansas River, in what is now 

 Davis Comity, Kans., near the present town of Junction City. It is 

 very doubtful if trout ever occurred so far east in Kansas. 



1870. Edward D. Cope. A partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of 

 North Carolina. <Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1869-70 (June 7, 1870), 

 148-495. 



In this paper, page 482, Carpiodes grayi ( = Carpiodes velifer) is 

 described as new. The definite locality is not known, but Prof. Cope 

 says "it is probably from one of the Western States." 



1870. Aug. I3umer.il. Histoire natnrelle des poissons, on ichthyologie ge"n6rale, 



vol. ii, 1870. 



In this work the common sturgeon of the Great Lakes and the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley is described as new no fewer than sixteen times. The 

 types of three of these nominal species are reputed to have come from 

 the Missouri Basin. They are the following: Acipenser (Huso) copei. 

 Upper Missouri; Acipenser (Huso) ranch ii, Osage River, Missouri, and 

 Acipenser (Huso) anasimos, Missouri River, near St. Louis. 



1871. Edward D. Cope. Recent reptiles and fishes. Report on the reptiles and 



fishes obtained by the naturalists of the expedition. ^Preliminary 

 Report U. S. Geological Survey of Wyoming and portions of contiguous 

 territory, being a second annual report of progress, 432-442, 1870 



(1871). 



This paper is a report upon the fishes collected by the naturalists of 

 the Hayden Survey during the season of 1870. Most of the specimens 

 were probably collected by C. P. Carrington, zoologist, and Henry D. 

 Schmidt, naturalist, of the expedition. Some were obtained by Dr. 

 W. A. Hammond, and others by Dr. William Stimpson. 



