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Abbott, of Trenton, for much of his interest and assistance, 

 especially in consenting to go over the work on Delaware River 

 fishes and advancing many important suggestions. To Dr. Bar- 

 ton W. Evermann, of the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington, 

 D. C, for matter relative to this work. To Prof. Ulric Dahl- 

 gren, of Princeton University, for some information on New 

 Jersey fishes. Further I am indebted to Dr. Abbott, Mr. Witmer 

 Stone, Mr. Thomas D. Keim, Mr. David McCadden, Mr. 

 William J. Fox, Mr. I. N. DeHaven, Mr. Paul Lorrilliere, Mr. 

 S. P. G. Lindsay, Mr. W. S. Sutch, Mr. H. Walker Hand, and 

 many others, for much assistance, especially in conducting 

 fishing excursions. Of these I am sure many will long be 

 remembered with pleasure. Mr. Hand has been exceptionally 

 kind in forwarding nearly complete information of the more 

 abundant fishes of Cape May and has always exerted himself 

 to the utmost to make our trips in that region a success. Mr. 

 Fox has made very fair collections of the fishes of Sea Isle City 

 and kindly placed much information at my disposal. Mr. Keim 

 has also helped in every way to make our New Jersey trips suc- 

 cessful, some of which are the most important we have yet 

 realized. 



Special mention is here made of the permission extended by 

 the Hon. Benj. P. Morris, President of the Fish and Game 

 Commissioners of New Jersey, to the writer, to collect fishes 

 with nets. This has been used in connection with his work on 

 the large collections of fishes in the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia with most satisfactory results. 



The figures used in this report are reproductions of those pub- 

 lished in 1884 by Dr. G. B. Goode in his Natural History of 

 useful and aquatic animals, in the Report of the Fishery In- 

 dustry of the United States. Also a number are taken from 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 47, volume IV, comprising the figures 

 to the Fishes of North and Middle America by Drs. D. S. 

 Jordan and B. W. Evermann. Besides these I have added a 

 few pen-drawings of my own. 



In concluding I may state that few realize the imperfections 

 of this work more than the writer, and though making no excuse 



