SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE 



BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF THE BLACK BASS. 



I MAY be pardoned for referring to the fact that the 

 restoration of Lacepede's names for the Black Bass species, 

 as proposed by me, viz.: Micropterus dolomieu for the small- 

 mouthed Bass, and Micropterus salmoides for the large- 

 mouthed Bass, has been fully concurred in and adopted by 

 the ichthyologists connected with the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion at Washington, the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Cambridge, the Indiana University at Bloomington, and 

 of other institutions. 



These names are, as Professor Goode says, " grounded 

 upon a firm foundation of priority," and can not now be 

 changed, unless older names should be discovered, which 

 does not seem probable. 



In this connection, it is interesting to note that Linnaeus 

 had two specimens of the large-mouthed Black Bass sent 

 to him by Dr. Garden, of Charleston, S. C., some thirty 

 years before Bosc sent his drawing and description of the 



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