Constantine Samuel Rafinesgue. 91 



The title-page of this volume furnishes a good illus 

 tration of the encyclopaedic character which was given 

 to all title-pages during the early part of the century. 

 Its full reading is as follows: 



Ichthyologia Ohiensis | or | Natural History | of the Fishes 

 Inhabiting the | River Ohio | and its Tributary Streams, | Preceded 

 by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches | by C. S. 



Rafinesque, | | Professor of Botany and Natural History in 



Transylvania University, Author of the Analysis of Nature, &c., &c., 

 member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, 

 the Historical Society of New York, the Lyceum of Natural History 

 of New York, the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, the Ameri 

 can Antiquarian Society, the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences 

 of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts and Sciences, the Medical 



Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, &c., &c., | | The art of 



seeing well, or of noticing and distinguishing with accuracy the 

 objects which we perceive is a high faculty of the mind, unfolded 

 in few individuals, and despised by those who can neither acquire 



it, nor appreciate its results. | | Lexington, Kentucky, | printed 



for the Author by W. G. Hunt, (price one dollar). | | 1820. 



(One volume, 8vo, pp. 90.) 



The title-page reverse has the following: 



These Pages | and the Discoveries which they contain | in one 

 of the principal Branches | of Natural History, | are respectfully 

 Inscribed | by the Author | To his fellow-labourers in the same field 

 of Science | Prof. Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D. | who has described 

 the Atlantic Fishes of New York, | and to | C. A. Le Sueur, | who 

 was the first to explore the Ichthyology of the Great American 

 Lakes, etc. | In Token | of Friendship, Respect, and Congratulation. 



