I89I.J 
355 
[Garman. 
Dootuii Journal of Natural History, Yol. II., pp. 289-558, where 
it differs very little from the separate. This report well repre- 
sents the best American work done in Ichthyology up to 1840. 
4. In 1841 he published a short “ Supplement to the Ichthy- 
ological report,” in the Boston Journal of Natural History, Yol. 
Ill, and in 1844, in the fourth volume of the same journal, his 
“Additional descriptions of, and observations on, the fishes of 
Massachusetts.” 
5. The year 1846 saw the appearance of “ A synopsis of the 
fishes of North America,” an extensive work, mainly compilation, 
published in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, and reprinted separately, with different title page, pag- 
ing, and index, making a quarto volume of about 300 pages. In 
this work there are evidences that compiling was not so much to 
the author’s liking as original work, in which he certainly ob- 
tained a greater degree of success. 
6. “The catalogue of the fishes of South Carolina,” in Tuo- 
mey’s Report on the geology of South Carolina, of 1848, is a list 
of nominal species occupying several pages, for which dependence 
was placed on literature rather than on specimens. 
7. In the fifth volume of the Memoirs of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, 1853-55, Dr. Storer put forth the 
first, second, and third instalments of “ A history of the fishes of 
Massachusetts.” The fourth part appeared in Yol. YI, 1858, 
the fifth in Yol. YIII, 1863, and the last in Yol. IX, 1867. The 
whole was published separately as a handsome quarto of 287 
pages and 37 plates. This work contains descriptions and draw 
ings taken from specimens of more than 130 species, together 
with a great mass of detail concerning habits, capture, economic 
value, and the like. 
To show how the author regarded his own work we may quote 
the following, the opening paragraphs of the History : — 
“As one of the Commissioners on the zoology of Massachusetts 
in the year 1839, I prepared a report on the Ichthyology of the 
state. From the brief time occupied in its preparation, it was 
necessarily imperfect, and, not being accompanied by figures, 
was comparatively useless, except to scientific men. Since the 
appearance of that communication, much information has been 
obtained respecting several of the most common and valuable 
fishes, and quite a number of new species have been ascertained 
to exist in our waters. 
