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dered to this Society, will be done justice to by others far more 
competent than myself. 
I am content to speak of him as my faithful and able fellow- 
worker, my warm-hearted, impulsive friend, with whom it was a 
privilege to be associated and whom it is a pleasure to remember. 
The President. Dr. Storcr’s contributions to the Ichthyol- 
ogy of Massachusetts will now be described to us by Mr. Samuel 
Garman, Assistant in charge of fishes and reptiles at the Agassiz 
Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge. 
DR. D. H. STORER’S WORK OK THE FISHES. 
BY SAMUEL GARMAN. 
Such of Dr. Storer’s papers as have come to my notice, some 
of the minor articles possibly being overlooked, indicate that his 
activity as an Ichthyologist extended over a period of about 
thirty years, beginning about 1836. His list of publications on 
the fishes is not a long one, and his standing among the workers 
of his own period, or of later periods in this department of sci- 
ence, may be determined entirely from the latest, his greatest 
work, the history of the fishes of Massachusetts. 
1 . The earliest paper noted is entitled ‘ 4 An examination of 
the 4 Catalogue of the marine and fresh- water fishes of Massachu- 
setts,’ by J. V. C. Smith, M. D.,” in Professor Hitchcock’s 44 Re- 
port on the geology, mineralogy, etc., of Massachusetts.” This 
appeared in volume I of the Boston Journal of Natural History, 
pp. 347-365, pi. VIII, occupying some eighteen pages and bear- 
ing date of May, 1836. 
2. In July, 1839, he published his “Remarks on the natural 
history of the fishes of Massachusetts, by J. V. C. Smith, M. D.,” 
in volume XXXVI of Silliman’s American Journal of Science 
and Arts, pp. 337-349, previously read before this Society at its 
meeting on March twentieth of the same year. 
3. His reports on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massa- 
chusetts make an octavo of 253 pages and three plates. This 
was issued in connection with the report on the birds, by Mr. 
Peabody. The Report on the fishes was also published in the 
