BIBLIOORAPHY. 



The following list comprises all the works known to the writer in 

 which new species or genera of American fresh-water Siluridce are indi- 

 cated, or in which oxiginal descriptions are given of genera or species 

 previously known. In general, I have endeavored to include all papers 

 in which anything of importance was added to or subtracted from the 

 sum of our knowledge of these fishes : — 



CATESBY (Mark). The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and tlie Bahama 

 Islands: containing The Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and 

 Plants : Particularly the Forest Trees, Shrubs and other Plants not hitherto 

 described or very incorrectly figured by Authors. Together with their Descrip- 

 tions in English and French. To which is added. Observations on the Air, Soil 

 and Waters: with Remarks upon Agriculture, Grain, Pulse, Eoots, etc. To the 

 whole is Prefixed a new and correct Map of the Country Treated of. By Mark 

 Catesby, F. E. S. London . . . , MDCCXXXI-XLIII. 2 vols, folio. 



[Contains a description and an outrageous figure of a Catfish from South Carolina. The figoie 

 is not identifiable, but has served as the basis of the earlier accounts of Silurus catus.^ 



LINN^ (Carl von). Caroli Linnssi Equitis De Stella Polari, Archiatri Regii, Med. 

 et Botan. Profess. Upsal; Acad. Upsal. Holmens. Petropol. Berol. Imper. Lond. 

 Monspel. Tolos. Florent. Soc. Systema Naturas per Eegna Tria Naturae, secundum 

 Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Diff^erentiis, Synonymis, 

 Locis. — Editlo Decima, Eeformata. Cum Privilegio S:ae E:ae M:tis Suecise. — 

 HolmisB, Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii 1758. Tomus I, Eegnvm Animale. 

 [Describes sp. n. Silurus catus.\ 



BLOCH (Mark Elieser) and SCHNEIDER (Johann Gottlob). M. E. Blochii 

 Doctoris MediciufB Berolinensis, et societatibus literariis multis adscripti, Systema 

 Ichthyologise iconibus CX illustratum. — Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum 

 absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. — Berolini, sumtibus 

 Auctoris impressum et bibliopolio Sanderiano commissum, 1801. 



[Describes Silurus catus Linnaeus, adding to Linnasus's account the characters " caudali pinna 

 bifurca: dorsali et peotorali inermi, omnibus obscure rubentibus" firom Catesby's figure.] 



MITCHILL (Samuel Latham). Memoir on Ichthyology. The Fishes of New York 

 described and arranged. In a supplement to the Memoir on the same subject, 

 printed in the New York Literary and Philosophical Transactions, vol. 1, pp. 355, 

 492. By Samuel L. Mitchill. <^ The American Monthly Magazine and Critical 

 Review, vol. ii, (New York), pp. 241-248, 321-328, 1818. 

 [Description of Silurus gyrinus sp. nov.] 



PAPINESQUE (Constantine Samuel). Discoveries in Natural History, made dur- 

 ing a Journey through the Western Region of the United States by Constantine 

 Samuel Rafinesque, esq. Addressed to Samuel L. Mitchill, President, and other 

 members of the Lyceum of Natural History in a letter dated at Louisville, Falls of 

 the Ohio, 20th July, 1818. <^ American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 

 New York, September, 1818. 



[Describes Silurus punctatus anAolivars' is sp. nov.] 



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