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work, received tlieir just recognition. Indeed, had 

 not David S. Jordan, with his discerning eye and 

 clear judgment, identified the species from the scanty 

 descriptions of the "Ichthyologia," and then, con- 

 trary to the wishes of many ichthyologists, claimed 

 for the author, in accordance with the rules of zoo- 

 logical nomenclature, his just deserts, much of 

 Rafinesque's work would have been buried in obliv- 

 ion. 



One sees but little of Lexington from the train. 

 The Louisville & Cincinnati divisions of the Southern 

 Railway merge at this point, and a motley crowd of 

 tourists, seeking also the sunshine of the southland, 

 come into the sleeper and put an end to the quiet 

 which, up to this time, I have enjoyed. Between 

 Lexington and Danville the road runs for the most 

 of the way through a limestone region. About Dan- 

 ville the country is especially fine. A few warm days 

 have put new vigor into the blue-grass, and the tiny 

 rootlets have begun to suck up the nourishment 

 yielded during the winter by the disintegrating lime- 

 stone. Far and wide the pastures spread, covered 

 with that faint green tinge which appears in a blue- 

 grass region as one of the foremost harbingers of the 

 coming springtime. Prince among our native grasses 

 this aye, more than prince the king, the ruler of 

 them all surpassing all others in beauty and grace- 

 fulness of culm, as well as in its value to the owner 

 of the land. James Lane Allen, writing of it, per- 



