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position in 1893; at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, and 

 at the Paris Exposition in 1900. He was Chief of the 

 Departments of Fish, Game and Forestry at the St. 

 Louis Expositions of 1902 and 1905. The next year he 

 became State Fish Culturist under the New York Con- 

 servation Commission, a position which he filled until 

 his death. 



Dr. Bean was a prolific writer. Although most of his 

 writings are on topics connected with fishes and fisheries, 

 they are not confined to them. As far back as in 1886 

 a Catalogue of Publications of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion from its beginning in 1846 to that date, lists fifty- 

 three papers by Dr. Bean, and twenty-five by him and 

 Dr. Goode jointly. In connection with this collaborator, 

 the late Dr. George Browne Goode, Dr. Bean produced 

 in 1896 the classic work, "Oceanic Ichthyology," which 

 is still an authoritative text book though published more 

 than twenty years ago. Other noteworthy products of 

 his pen have been "The Fishes of Great South Bay, L. I.," 

 1890 ; "The Fishes of Pennsylvania," 1893 ; "The Salmon 

 and Salmon Fisheries," 1891 ; "The Fishes of Long Is- 

 land," 1902; "The Fishes of Bermuda," 1906 and 1912; 

 several articles in "The Fishery Industries of the United 

 States," edited by Dr. Goode, and many magazine arti- 

 cles and official reports. He was an indefatigable stu- 

 dent, and the present writer recalls a vivid picture of him 

 in the library of the Smithsonian Institution, poring over 

 volumes of almost forgotten lore to check up some refer- 

 ence or confirm some quotation. Although he was always 

 anxious to know what his predecessors along some line 

 of investigation had accomplished, much of his pro- 

 found knowledge of aquatic animals was acquired at first 

 hand by direct and personal observation, and no one can 

 look over a check list of American fishes without being 

 impressed by the number of names credited to him, which 

 shows how many species he was the first to describe. 



Though he was a scientific zoologist of high order, 

 there was nothing connected with the fisheries that was 

 foreign to him. He wrote of the methods of taking the 



