REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1898 / rill 



(young) Bluepoint cove, Great South bay 18 Aug. 



• " Swan river, Patehogue 23 Aug. 



Bluepoint cove, Great South bay 23 Aug. 



" Howell's point, Great South bay 31 Aug. 



The writer has personally studied 163 species of fishes in waters 

 extending from Gravesend bay eastward to Mecox bay, and has 

 published accounts of them in the 19th annual report of the New 

 Yorh fish Gommissiori (1890), the bulletin for 1897 of the Ameri- 

 can museum of natural history, New York city, and Science of 

 Jan. 13, 1899. About 350 species of fishes are now assigned to 

 the waters of the state. 



Washington D, C. 



^i, April 1899 



