BULLETIN 



OF THE 



UsTSTITTJTIE] 



VOL. 11. SALEM, JAN., FEB., MAR., 1879. Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



A Catalogue of the Pishes of Essex County, Massachu- 

 setts, including the fauna of Massachusetts Bay and 

 the contiguous deep waters. 



BY G. BROWN GOODE AND TARLETON H. BEAN. 



PREFATORY NOTE. 



THE following catalogue has been prepared at the request of the 

 officers of the Essex Institute as an aid to the arrangement and study 

 of the Institute collection 1 of local species. It is believed to be com- 

 plete to the date of publication, and, through the courtesy of Prof. 

 Baird, includes the latest additions made to the fauna by the U. S. 

 Fish Commission in its explorations from the summer stations at 

 Gloucester (1878), Salem and Halifax (1877), Portland (1873), and 

 Eastport (1872). 



The field is by no means an untrodden one, having been well trav- 

 ersed during the half-century past by Wheatland, Storer, Agassiz, and 

 Putnam. The improved methods of deep sea research and the zeal 

 of the Gloucester fishermen have, however, been instrumental in add- 

 ing many new species to the list. Too much cannot be said in com- 

 mendation of the captains and crews of the off-shore fishing fleet, who 

 have taken an active part in the scientific exploration of the fishing 

 banks, and who have brought in during the past eight months several 

 thousand natural history specimens in alcohol, besides making impor- 



1 Tbe scientific collections of the Essex Institute are deposited in the museum 

 of the Peabody Academy of Science. 



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