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prominent points from the fish I have abové de= 
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> flattened; the depth of its jaws are nearly equal to 
the depth of its head ; its dorsal fin commences on 
a line opposite | to the anus. In our species, a ridge 
exists upon the occiput ; the depth of the jaws does 
not exceed in any portion one third the depth of the 
head; the anal aperture is opposite the middle of the 
S Among the earliest cultivators of Ichthyology in 
our country, no name is more prominent than that of 
William Dandridge Peck. So early as the year 1794, 
while residing at the town of Kittery, in Maine, he 
wrote a clear and accurate “description of four re- 
markable fishes, taken near the Piscataqua, in New 
Hampshire.” This paper was published in 1804, in 
the 2d part of the 2d volume of the ‘‘ Memoirs of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences," ac- 
companied with very good figures, when the early 
ae of our country is considered. The manu- 
script of his Ichthyological Lectures also, afterwards 
delivered by him at Harvard University as Professor 
of Natural History, and kindly loaned me to examine 
by my friend, Thaddeus Wm. Harris. M. D., Libra- 
rian to the University, exhibits no ineonsiderable 
degree of research. As the species described and 
first published by him as new, have, three of them 
. €t least, been described by other naturalists under 
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other specific names, I feel that I am performing 2? 
appropriate duty, in connecting the name of our de- 
ceased countryman, whose merits have been unjus- 
tifiably co. with one of a class of animals, 
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