FISHES OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. 



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In this paper Dr. Storer recorded a few fishes from the Tennessee-Kentucky region 

 chiefly on the authority of Rafinesque as follows : 



1854. L. Agassiz. 



Notice of a Collection of Fishes from the Southern Bend of the Tennessee River, Alabama. 

 <Am. Joiu-. Sci. and Arts, vol. xvii, second series, 1854, pp. 297-308 (March), and 353- 

 365 (May). 



Speaking of the collection on which this paper was based, Prof. Agassiz said: "The 

 only information we have at present upon the fishes of the Tennessee River has been 

 published by Dr. D. H. Storer, who mentions nine species from the vicinity of Florence, 

 Ala., in 'The Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History for 1845,' and of 

 which short descriptions appeared in his 'Synopsis of the Fishes of North America,' in 

 1846. Having lately received a collection of not less than 33 species from the same 

 water system brought together by the untiring efforts of Dr. Newman, of Huntsville, 

 who has most kindly placed them in my hands for description, it seems desirable that 

 an early notice of the general character of the ichthyological fauna of that region should 

 be published, to serve as a standard of comparison with the fishes of the other western 

 and southern rivers in the study of the geographic distribution." All the specimens 

 were from Huntsville, Ala., presumably from the Tennessee River. The list follows: 



