6 THE FISHES OP OHIO. 



species as occurring in the streams of the state, Muskingum, 

 Hocking and Miami Rivers and the Ohio River ' ' as far as Pitts- 

 burgh." Rafinesque makes mention of one hundred and eleven 

 species as occurring in the Ohio and its tributaries, but of this 

 number, as Dr. Jordan says, " upwards of forty-three are either 

 spurious or redundant." Of the one hundred and thirty-four 

 native species now recorded for Ohio, Rafinesque described thirty- 

 four. Further comment on Rafinesque' s work is unnecessary, as 

 it has been reviewed by various later writers, especially by Dr. 

 Jordan. Dr. R. E. Call has recently published an edition of 

 the Ichthyologia Ohiensis in the original text, accompanied by a 

 biographical sketch. 



The first paper to appear, dealing entirely with the fishes of 

 the state, was that by Dr. Jared P. Kirtland, published in the 

 Second Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, and 

 bearing date of November i, 1838, at Cincinnati. In this paper 

 Dr. Kirtland gave a list of seventy-two species belonging to Ohio. 

 Of this number, at least twelve are redundant. In the ' ' Family 

 Visitor," of 1850, however, Kirtland gave a corrected list, in 

 which seven doubtful species of his former list were omitted, and 

 two other species added, thus reducing his list to sixty-seven 

 species, of which number at least sixty-one are good. Kirtland 

 published other papers on Ohio fishes, his most important work 

 being " Descriptions of the Fishes of Lake Erie, the Ohio River 

 and their Tributaries," which appeared in the "Boston Journal 

 of Natural History," as a serial, in 1840-46. Eight species of 

 our present list were described by Dr. Kirtland, and his careful 

 work resulted in man}' valuable contributions to ichthyological 

 knowledge. 



The next work of importance on Ohio fishes was that of Mr. 

 John H. Klippart, of the State Fish Commission, published in 

 the first and second annual reports of the commission. The first 

 report, for the years 1875-76, contains descriptions of twenty-five 

 species " copied and arranged from the manuscript of Prof. D. S. 

 Jordan, by his assistant, Chas. H. Gilbert," with comments and 

 notes by Klippart, and with plates of nineteen species drawn by 

 Miss Josephine Klippart. The same report also contains a list of 

 one hundred and eighty-five species of fishes " supposed to occur 



