7.-A LIST OF FISHES AND MOLLUSKS COLLECTED IN ARKANSAS AND 
INDIAN TERRITORY IN 1894. 
By SETH EUGENE MEEK, Ph. D., 
Associate Professor of Biology and Geology in the Arkansas Industrial University. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The following paper is based on two collections of fishes made by the writer under 
the auspices of the United States Fish Commission and the Museum of the Arkansas 
University. 
The first collection was made during the last week in May, 1894, along the line of 
the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, between Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Arthur, 
Texas. The second collection was made during the last two weeks of August, 1894, in 
the St. Francis River in northeastern Arkansas. As these two regions are somewhat 
remote from each other, and unlike, for the most part, as to physical characteristics, 
they are treated separately in this paper. 
For assistance in the identification of doubtful species and in the preparation of 
this report I am indebted to Prof. Barton W. Evermann, ichthyologist of the United 
States Fish Commission. 
WESTERN ARKANSAS AND EASTERN INDIAN TERRITORY. 
The Poteau and Kiamichi rivers are the most important streams draining the 
eastern portion of Indian Territory south of Fort Smith. These rivers rise in the 
Ozark Mountains, between the Arkansas and Red rivers, the Poteau flowing north, 
the Kiamichi south; each drains, for the most part, in the upper two- thirds of its 
course, a mountainous sandstone region, where their currents are swift and their 
bottoms usually rocky. Between Poteau, Indian Territory, and Fort Smith the 
Poteau River flows with a slow current in a deep and rather broad channel, with an 
occasional rocky shoal; in dry weather the depth some 5 or 0 miles above Fort Smith 
is more than 15 or 20 feet in places; so broad and deep is this channel and so slow is 
the current that the river partakes somewhat of the nature of a lake. 
Collections were made from the Poteau River near Fort Smith and a few small 
rocky tributaries near Poteau, Indian Territory. 
The Kiamichi River collections were made from Walnut Creek and Kiamichi River, 
at Kiamichi, Indian Territory, and Flat Creek, near Goodland, Indian Territory. 
Those from the Red River were made at Arthur, Texas. The Kiamichi River was too 
deep and rocky to admit of successful collecting at the places mentioned, especially 
at the latter place. 
At Arthur the Red River is similar to the Arkansas at Fort Smith. There are 
along the stream many bayous, from which most of our collections were made. 
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