186 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
IX. 
Conspicuous publishers of an enumeration of Massachusetts fishes 
were G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean, connected with the 
United States Fish Commission. Under the form of ** A Catalogue of 
the Fishes of Essex County, Massachusetts, including the Fauna of 
Massachusetts Bay and the Contiguous Waters”, they gave the names 
of all the species known from the state. ‘‘It is believed to be com- 
plete to the date of publication.” The catalogue was published in 
1879 in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute (XI, pp. 1-38). The sum 
total listed amounted to ‘*183 species, of which 163 inhabit salt or 
brackish water, 20 fresh water.” The ‘‘number of marine species 
from within the limits of Massachusetts Bay * * * is 133; while 
29 are from the deeper offshore waters in the vicinity of Georges, Le 
Have, Browns, and Sable Island Banks.” Only 20 of the species have 
exactly the same names that were adopted by Storer. 
As just indicated, a number of the species enumerated by Goode 
and Bean have never been found except in deep ofishore waters, and 
consequently not within the limits of the state or even very near it. 
There are 24 such, and they should be excluded from the fauna of the 
state. These are deep-sea or pelagic forms, which are more foreign 
to the real fauna of Massachusetts than are the fishes of Florida or of 
Britain. 
The catalogue of Goode and Bean, on the whole, is a well-considered 
and valuable memoir, brought up to the date of its publication. 
oS 
The last census of the fishes of Massachusetts relates to a part of the 
coast, but that the most important from an ichthyological point of 
view at least; it isa catalogue of ‘* The Fishes Found in the Vicinity of 
Woods Hole,” by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, chief of the division of scientific 
inquiry, United States Fish Commission, now Deputy Commissioner 
of the Bureau of Fisheries. It was published in advance and appears 
in the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission for 1897 (XVII, 
pp. 85-111, with folded map). It was supplemented in two later vol- 
umes (XIX, 309, 310; XXI, 32). These give a most useful summary 
of the fishes of the region indicated, enriched with notes respecting 
occurrence, comparative rarity or abundance, and time of appearance. 
The species are arranged in the sequence adopted by Jordan and 
Evermann, and their nomenclature also is accepted. The number of 
species recorded in the main list was 209; in 1899, 16; and in 1900, 4. 
The present number of fishes recorded up to date is 229 marine species, 
and if to these we add 11 fresh-water ones occurring in the vicinity, 
we have no less than 240. It is remarkable that at so late a day so 
many species previously unknown to the coast should have been found. 
