10 Book of the Black Bass. 



Ala., which he named, provisionally, Grystes nohilis. In 

 the same year, Messrs. Baird and Girard described speci- 

 mens of the same species from Texas, as Grystes nuecensis. 



In 1855, in his " Ichthyology of South Carolina," Dr. 

 Holbrook gave an excellent figure and the first full and 

 elaborate description of the Carolina "trout," under the 

 name of Grystes salmoides Lacepede. 



In 1857, Dr. Theodatus Garlick, one of the fathers of 

 fish culture in America, described the small-mouth black 

 bass as Grystes nigricans, and the large-mouth species as 

 Grystes megastoma. 



In 1858, Dr. Charles Girard described the large-mouth 

 bass as Dioplites nuecensis. 



In 1860, Dr. Theo. Gill restored Eaflnesque's earliest 

 name for the small-mouth form of the black bass, calling 

 it Lepomis achigau, which, however, he changed in 1866 

 to Micropterus achigan, and still later, in 1873, he adopted 

 Lacepede's name, Micropterus salmoides, for the same 

 species. 



In 1865, Dr. Edw. D. Cope named the large-mouth bass, 

 Micropterus nigricans, which name was also adopted by 

 Prof. Gill in 1866. 



In 1874, when, apparently, the oldest generic and specific 

 names, Micropterus salmoides for the small-mouth bass, 

 and Micropterus nigricans for the large-mouth bass, had 

 been restored, as in Prof. Gill's masterly review* of the 

 species in the previous year (when the tangled web had 

 been, seemingly, straightened), when dry land was thought 

 to have been reached at last ; — then came the French natu- 



* On the species of the genua Micropterus ( Lac. ) or Grystes 

 (Auct.). By Theodore Gill, of Washington, D. C. Proceedings of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, xxii, 

 1873, pp. B. 55-72. 



