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from the St. Joseph River basiu iu the uortheasteni part of the State 

 to Logansport, where it empties into the Wabasli River. It has a total 

 lenj^th of 7li miles, the average width of its basiu beiug about 18 miles. 



OHIO. 



During the summer of 1891, and again in May and June, 1892, Mr. 

 Lewis M. McCormick, assistant iu the museum of Oberlin College, 

 acting iu the joint interests of that institution and the Fish Commis- 

 sion, made extensive collections of tishes throughout Lorain County, 

 Ohio, in continuation of investigations which had been carried on during 

 the previous three years. In a report upon this work, which has been 

 published by Oberlin College,* 88 si)ecies are euumerated as inhabiting 

 the streams and the lake front of that county. Notes are also given 

 respecting their habits and other matters of interest. A complete 

 series of the species collected has been supplied to the Fisli Conunis- 

 sioji. The following account of the main hydrographic features of 

 Lorain Couuty is abstracted from Mr. McCormick's report: 



Lorain Couuty is wholly withiu the lake watershed, all its streams flowing north- 

 ward into Lake Erie. The streams are all suuxll, the lavt!,ost beiug Black River, 

 navigable for about 3 miles, and Veriuillion River, having only about a mile of 

 safe water. * * * The laud is quite flat, with a gentle slope toward the lake, 

 and the streams are mostly shallow aud sluggish, the exceptions beiug found iu the 

 parts that cross the "ridges," or old lake beaches, aud a few of the small streams 

 that are tributary to the Vermillion. Some of these are quite brisk and have worn 

 for themselves deep channels in the ahale. * » » Lake Erie, where it touches 

 Lorain County, is shallow, reaching a depth of about 55 feet 3 miles from shore, 

 and is free from islands. * * * Pound nets are set iu "strings" from perhaps 

 one-lialf a mile from shore to 3 miles, aud it is from these I have obtained most of 

 my lake lishes. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



In April, 1892, Dr. Hugh M. Smith, of the Division of Fisheries, 

 made a short trip to the Albemarle region of North Carolina, during 

 which he collected fishes at nnnierous places in the basins of the 

 Pasquotank aud Roanoke rivers and in Edenton Bay, at the mouth of 

 the Chowan River. Owing to the early date at which this investiga- 

 tion was conducted, high, nuiddy water was generally met Avith, and 

 the temperature was also still low, causing unfavorable conditions for 

 fleldwork, and making it impossible to obtain nearly as fall a repre- 

 sentation of the fishes of the region as would have been the case later 

 in the season. Notwithstanding this fact, however, 45 species, belongi ng 

 to 35 genera and 18 families, were secured. In a paper discussing the 

 results of his expedition, tDr. Smith describes the features existing 



* Descriptive List of the Fishes of Lorain Couuty, Ohio. By Lewis M. McCormick, 

 assistant in the laboratory. Laboratory Bulletin No. 2, Oberlin College, Oberlin, 

 Ohio, 1892, pp. 34. Oue map of Oberlin Couuty, 14 plates of fishes. 



t Report on a collection of lishes from the Albemarle region of North Carolina. 

 By Hugh M. Smith, M. D. Bull. U. S. Fish Comui., vol. XI, for 1891, pp. 185-200. 



