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work, ' Oceanic Ichthyology, ' published in 

 collaboration with his associate of many 

 years, Dr. Tarleton Hoffman Bean, was 

 barely finished at the time of his death. The 

 work of Theodore Nicholas Gill and Ed- 

 ward Drinker Cope has been already 

 noticed. 



Other fauna! writers of more or less 

 prominence were "William Dandridge Peek 

 (1763-1822) in New Hampshire, George 

 Suckley (1830-1869) in Oregon, James 

 William Milner (1841-1880) in the Great 

 Lake Region, Samuel Stehman Holdeman 

 (1812-1880) in Pennsylvania, William 0. 

 Ayres (1817-1891) in Connecticut and 

 California, Dr. John G. Cooper, Dr. Wil- 

 liam P. Gibbons and Dr. William N. Lock- 

 ington in California. Philo Romayne Hoy 

 (1816-1893) studied the fishes of Wiscon- 

 sin, Charles Conrad Abbott those of New 

 Jersey, Silas Stearns (1859-1888) those of 

 Florida, and Stephen Alfred Forbes those 

 of Illinois. 



Samuel Garman, at Harvard University, 

 a student of Agassiz, is the author of nu- 

 merous valuable papers, the most notable 

 being on the sharks and on the deep-sea 

 collections of the Albatross in the Gala- 

 pagos region, the last illustrated by most 

 excellent plates. 



The present writer began a ' Systematic 

 Catalogue of the Fishes of North America ' 

 in 1875, in association with his gifted 

 friend, Herbert Bdson Copeland (1849- 

 1876), whose sudden death, after a few 

 excellent pieces of work, cut short the un- 

 dertaking. Later, Charles Henry Gilbert 

 (1860- ), a student of Professor Cope- 

 land, took up the work and in 1883 a 

 ' Synopsis of the Fishes of North America ' 

 was completed by Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Dr. Gilbert has since been engaged in 

 studies of the fishes of Panama, Alaska and 

 other regions, and the second and enlarged 

 edition of the ' Synopsis ' was completed 

 in 1898 as the 'Fishes of North and Mid- 



dle America,' in collaboration with another 

 of the writer's students. Dr. Barton War- 

 ren Evermann. A ' Monographic Review 

 of the Fishes of Puerto Rico ' was later 

 (1900) completed by Dr. Evermann, to- 

 gether with numerous minor works. Other 

 naturalists whom the writer may be proud 

 to claim as students are Charles Leslie Mc- 

 Kay (1854-1883), drowned in Bristol Bay, 

 Alaska, while engaged in explorations, and 

 Charles Henry BoUman, stricken with fever 

 in the Okefenokee Swamps in Georgia. 

 Still others were Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, 

 the indefatigable investigator of Brazilian 

 fishes and of the blind fishes of the caves; 

 Dr. Oliver Peebles Jenkins, first explorer 

 of the fishes of Hawaii ; Dr. Alembert Win- 

 throp Brayton, explorer of the streams of 

 the Great Smoky Mountains ; Dr. Seth Eu- 

 gene Meek, explorer of Mexico ; Jolm Otter- 

 bein Snyder, explorer of Mexico, Japan 

 and Hawaii ; Edwin Chap in Starks, explor- 

 er of Puget Sound and Panama and inves- 

 tigator of fish osteology. Still other natu- 

 ralists of the coming generation, students 

 of the present writer and of his lifelong 

 associate. Professor Gilbert, have contrib- 

 uted in various degrees to the present fab- 

 ric of American ichthyology. Among 

 them are Mrs. Rosa Smith Eigenmann, Dr. 

 Joseph Swain, Wilbur Wilson Thoburn, 

 Frank Cramer, Alvin Scale, Albert Jeffer- 

 son Woolman, Philip H. Kirsch, Cloudsley 

 Rutter, Robert Edward Snodgrass, James 

 Francis Abbott, Arthur W. Greeley, Ed- 

 mund Heller, Henry Weed Fowler, and 

 Richard Crittenden McGregor. 



Other facts and conclusions of impor- 

 tance have been contributed by various per- 

 sons with whom ichthyology has been an 

 incident rather than a matter of central im- 

 portance. 



As students of the extinct fishes, follow- 

 ing the monumental work of Louis Agas- 

 siz, some of the notable names are thosc- 

 of Pander, Asmuss, Heckel, Hugh Miller 



