x AMERICAN FISHES. 
anadromous Glut Herring, and is placed on page 393, where it belongs, 
and some erroneous or unimportant matter elided to make room for it. A 
figure of the true Herring is added in its place. 
The figure given as that of “the Salt-water Catfish” on page 379 was 
that of the “Channel or Blue Cat,” and is removed to page 377, and a couple 
of superfluous paragraphs expunged to accommodate it. An illustration of 
the true salt-water fish takes its place. 
The confusion in which the fishes called Mullets are involved is explained 
on pages 374 and 375, and the insufficient chapter on “the Sturgeons” on 
page 375 eliminated. 
New chapters are added at the end of the volume on the White-fishes, 
the Smelts and their relatives, the Eel and its kin, and the Sturgeons. The 
cuts illustrating the species of the groups in question, with two exceptions, 
are additional to those in the original work, and most have been lent by the 
Smithsonian Institution to the editor for use in the new edition. 
The species in the original work have been considered mostly in an 
approximately systematic order. To supplement this, lists of the species of 
economical value or esteemed as angle fishes have been given under five 
geographical divisions, (1) the fresh waters east of the Rocky Mountains, 
(2) fresh waters west of the Rocky Mountains, (3) the Atlantic coast, (4) the 
Florida and Gulf coasts, and (5) the Pacific coast. 
When the nomenclature now adopted differs from Goode’s, the names 
given by him are mentioned with references to the pages of the work ; when 
they are the same, the references to pages immediately follow the names. 
When names appear without page references, they are of species not noticed 
by Goode, and in most cases since discovered. 
It is with some pleasure that I have accepted the task of preparing for a 
new edition of my highly esteemed friend’s work, and it is in part fulfilment 
of an undertaking that we had proposed not long before his death. Late in 
April of 1896 Dr. Goode called on me with the proposition that we should 
join our forces for the compilation of a new work on American fishes and 
eventually of one on general ichthyology. He was good enough to offer to 
take a secondary place on the title-pages,.and, in case of doubt arising, to 
concede to me the privilege of expressing our opinions, as he had sufficient 
confidence in my candor and judgment, he was pleased to say, to concede 
that on a doubtful issue I was more apt to be in the right than the wrong. 
We began to collect materials for the contemplated works, but death inter- 
vened, and to the loss of a friend was added the loss of a collaborator. 
