LXXIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
states that with the exception of the larger river fishes, which were 
not obtained, the list of species presented is probably approxi- 
mately complete for the bend of the Tennessee River, in the north- 
ern part of the State, but additional collections are still needed 
from the Alabama River.' The examinations made in the bend of the 
Tennessee were chiefly noteworthy as showing the presence in the 
clear, cold, spring -fed tributaries of that portion of the river, of an un- 
expectedly large number of species characteristic of the headwaters of 
the French Broad and Holston rivers, which were studied by Dr. Jor- 
dan during the summer of 1888. Prof. Gilbert also includes in his 
paper the results of explorations made by himself and Prof. Joseph 
Swain, in 1884, and by Jordan, Evermann, and Bollman, in 1886. The 
number of species recorded from each river basin is as follows : The 
Tennessee River, 74 species; the Alabama River, 49 species; the Es- 
cambia River, 38 species. 
Georgia . — In the latter part of June, 1889, Mr. Charles H. Bollman 
and Mr. Bert Fesler, both of the University of Indiana, began an 
investigation of the lowland region of Georgia. It was intended to 
continue the inquiry until about the middle of August and to extend it 
into the State of Florida. Mr. Bollman, however, was taken sick with 
dysentery fever at Way cross, Georgia, on July 4, and died on the 13th of 
the same month. The work was therefore abruptly terminated. Mr. 
Bollman was a recent graduate of the University of Indiana, where he 
was held in high esteem. Under the careful training of Dr. Jordan, he 
had acquired great proficiency as an ichthyologist and in other branches 
of zoology, having published several important papers on fishes and 
on the more obscure group of Myriapods. He gave promise of a bright 
and useful future and in a few years would, undoubtedly, have taken 
high rank among American naturalists. His loss is severely felt by 
the Fish Commission and by his many friends. During the short 
time this party was in the field, collections were made in Brier Creek, 
at Waynesboro; in a small creek in the southern suburbs of Savannah; 
in the Ogeechee River and one of its tributaries and in Buckhead 
Creek at Milieu, and in the Satilla River at Waycross. Thirty-one 
species of fishes were obtained, including one new form, Opsopceodus 
bollmani Gilbert. The results accomplished have been described by 
Prof. C. H. Gilbert.* 
Alaskan salmon rivers . — The great decrease in the production of the 
salmon fisheries of the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Puget 
Sound, during the past few years, has caused the salmon-packers of 
that region to turn their attention toward Alaska, where several species 
of the Salmonidce occur in extraordinary abundance. Large and fully 
equipped salmon canneries have already been established at many 
* Notes on fishes from the lowlands of Georgia, with a description of a new species 
( Opsopceodus bollmani). By Charles H. Gilbert. Bull. U. S. Fish Com., vm, for 1888, 
pp. 225-229. 
