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The next collector who paid any attention to the fishes of the Tennessee was Dr. 

 Newman, of Huntsville, Ala., who placed in the hands of Prof. Louis Agassiz "a collec- 

 tion of not less than 33 species from the same water system." These were described 

 by Prof. Agassiz in the American Journal of Arts and Sciences in 1854 (Agassiz, 1854). 



The next naturahst to collect the fishes of the Tennessee Basin and the first, Rafi- 

 nesque excepted, to study his own collections from that region was Prof. Edward 

 Drinker Cope. In the summer and fall of 1867, Prof. Cope made large collections in 

 the western part of Virginia from the Roanoke, James, Kanawha, and Holston Rivers. 

 Prof. Cope says, "The fishes of the Roanoke were taken in the seventh month, those 

 of the James and Kanawha in the eighth and ninth, and those of the Holston in the 

 tenth, 1867." 



The results of these field investigations were published by Prof. Cope in several 

 papers, the titles of which are given in the bibliography (pp. 312, 313). 



For the next nine years little, if any, ichthyological exploration was conducted 

 in this region. In the summer of 1 876, however. Prof. David Starr Jordan began making 

 those collecting trips in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and 

 Alabama which were continued at intervals for 12 years and which added so greatly 

 to our knowledge of the fishes of that region. Prof. Jordan was then (until 1879) pro- 

 fessor of natural sciences in the Northwestern Christian University (now Butler Uni- 

 versity) at Irvington, near Indianapolis; and professor of natural sciences 1 879-1 885, 

 and president 1 885-1 891 of the University of Indiana. 



During the summer of 1876 he was accompanied by one of his students, Charles 

 Henry Gilbert, and by Alembert Winthrop Brayton, then teacher of natural sciences 

 in the Indianapolis high school. Collecting was done in various streams in Tennessee 

 and North Carolina. Prof. Jordan, accompanied by Mr. Gilbert and Dr. Brayton, 

 again collected in the same States in the summer of 1877. Very extensive collections 

 were made, which formed the basis of a valuable paper by Jordan and Brayton. 



In the summer of 1878 the writer was a member of a party of students led 

 by Jordan, Brayton, and Gilbert on a walking trip through eastern Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia, during which he made his 

 first acquaintance with the fishes of that region. 



In May, 1883, Dr. Jordan, assisted by Joseph Swain (then a senior at Indiana 

 University, now president of Swarthmore College), again led a party of students from 

 Indiana University into Kentucky and made collections of the fishes of the streams of 

 Whitley County in that State. 



The next year Prof. Charles H. Gilbert and Prof. Joseph Swain made considerable 

 collections in east Tennessee and Kentucky and in northern Alabama. All the waters 

 examined are in the Tennessee or the Cumberland Basin. They are all listed elsewhere 

 in this paper. 



In the summer of 1888 various places in the upper Tennessee Basin were visited 

 by Dr. David Starr Jordan, Prof. Oliver Peebles Jenkins, and the writer, and large 

 collections were made, which were reported on by Dr. Jordan. 



In the spring of 1889 and the autumn of 1890 Prof. Philip H. Kirsch, at that time 

 superintendent of schools, Columbia, Ky., made collections of fishes in the streams of 

 Chnton County, Ky. 



