292 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
fortunate for American zodlogy, a year later began to 
publish the results. ‘The fictitious species of fish, to the 
number of ten, “communicated by Mr. Audubon,” first 
appeared as a series of articles in a short-lived and long 
forgotten western magazine,’ but in 1820 they were 
gathered into a little volume’ now considered so quaint 
and rare that it has been reproduced in its entirety. In 
this pioneer work on the ichthyology of the Ohio River 
and the great Middle West, 111 kinds of American 
fresh-water fishes are briefly described. Those ten “new 
species,” representing apparently a number of new 
genera, “so like and yet so unlike to anything yet 
known,” long remained a stumbling block to American 
zoologists; naturally they tended to discredit the work 
of Rafinesque. 
°The Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine, Lexington, 1819-20. 
‘Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or Natural History of the Fishes inhabiting 
the River Ohio and its tributary Streams, preceded by a physical descrip- 
tion of the Ohio and its branches. By C. S. Rafinesque, Professor of 
Botany and Natural History in Transylvania University, Author of the 
Analysis of Nature, &c. &c. Member of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of New-York, the Historical Society of New-York, the Lyceum of 
Natural History of New-York, the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, the Royal Institute of 
Natural Sciences of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts and Sciences, the 
Medical Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, &c. &c. 
“The art of seeing well, or of noticing and distinguishing with accuracy 
the objects which we perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unfolded in 
few individuals, and despised by those who can neither acquire it, nor 
appreciate its results.” 
Lexington, Kentucky: printed for the author by W. G. Hunt. (Price 
one dollar.) (Pp. 1-90. Lexington, 1820.) 
Fitzpatrick (see Bibliography, No. 228) gives a list of 14 copies of 
this work, the whereabouts of which are known; we can add another 
from the library of Dr. Jared P. Kirtland, now in the collections of 
Western Reserve University; it is bound up with Dr. Kirtland’s notebook 
on birds and fishes, and labeled “Scraps of Natural History. My Note 
Book;” a written notice on the inside of the cover, imploring the finder 
to return the volume to its owner if lost, is signed by Dr. Kirtland and 
dated “Cleveland, O., Oct. 16th, 1839.” Probably fewer than 20 original 
copies of the work now exist. It was reproduced in a limited edition, with a 
sketch of Rafinesque’s life and works by Richard Ellsworth Call, published 
by the Burrows Brothers’ Company of Cleveland in 1899. 
