The Days of a Man 1887 



be read plainly a mile away, has been cut the simple 

 name 



JOHN BROWN 



In the fall of 1886 I was asked by a representative 

 of the London Zoological Society to act as editor of 

 that part of The Zoological Record which deals with 

 fishes, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant having then given 

 up the work. The great distance of Bloomington 

 from London, however, made the arrangement 

 difficult, and the task was therefore assigned to 

 Dr. George A. Boulenger, who had lately come from 

 Brussels as Dr. Giinther's colleague. 



A second During the next Easter vacation, taking? with me 

 visit to mv daughter Edith and a few students, I made a 

 second visit to Pensacola, which I again found 

 extremely favorable for my purposes. In the Grand 

 Lagoon, a shallow bay, were multitudes of little sea 

 horses of a new species, hanging by their tails to the 

 eelgrass. And I arranged with Silas Stearns to send 

 out Evermann and Bollman with his deep-sea fishing 

 boats to gather and save all the small creatures 

 regularly spewed out on deck by the captured Red 

 Snappers and Groupers. For in fishes brought from 

 the depths the stomach always turns wrong-side 

 out because of the reduced pressure at the surface. 

 We thus secured many very interesting species 

 which live about submerged rocks and which have 

 never yet been obtained in any other way. 



To the most interesting of these I gave the name 

 of Steinegeria, in honor of Leonhard Stejneger, the 

 distinguished young Norwegian ornithologist brought 

 in 1 88 1 by Baird to Washington, where he came to 

 be recognized as one of the most learned and efficient 



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