FISHES OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. 



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In this paper Rafinesque described as new nine species from the Ohio and its tribu- 

 taries in Kentucky, as follows: 



1820. C. S. Rafinesque. 



Description of the Silures, or Catfishes of the River Ohio. ^Quarterly Journal of Science, 

 Literature, and Arts, Royal Institution, vol. ix, p. 48, London, 1820. 



In this paper, which Rafinesque refers to as his monography of the catfishes, are 

 described 1 1 species and 6 varieties of catfishes. The following were described from the 

 Kentucky-Tennessee region : 



1820a. C. S. Rafinesque. 



Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and its 

 Tributary Streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches. By 

 C. S. Rafinesque, Professor of Botany and Natural History in Transylvania University, au- 

 thor of the Analysis of Nature, etc., etc., member of the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of New York, the Historical Society of New- York, the Lyceum of Natural History of New- 

 York, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, 

 the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts and Sciences, 

 the Medical Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, etc., etc. The art of seeing well, or of 

 noticing and distinguishing with accuracy the objects which we perceive, is a high faculty 

 of mind, unfolded in few individuals, and despised by those who can neither acquire it, 

 nor appreciate its results. Lexington, Ky. Printed for the author by W. G. Himt. (Price, 

 one dollar.) 1820. 



As already stated, all of the Ichthyologia except the Supplement, the Corrections and 

 Additions, and the Index first appeared in the Western Review and Miscellaneous Maga- 

 zine, a journal published at Lexington from November, 1819, to December, 1820. Ra- 

 finesque had the matter arranged in octavo forms and reprinted at the close of the year 

 1820 as the "Ichthyologia Ohiensis." 



