I JO BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 3. 4. 
Goldsborough Mayer, was Director of the Museum from 1900 to 
1904. 
Monro, Alexander {Secundiis) (1733-1817): "The Structure and Physi- 
ology of Fishes." Edinburgh and London, 1785, folio. There were 
three anatomists named Alexander Monro, and to designate them, 
they were sub-entitled Primus, Secundus, and Tertius—iaXh^r, son, 
and grandson. All were comparative anatomists, but Monro 
Secundus went, more than either of the others, into the study of 
fishes — more indeed than perhaps any comparative anatomist who 
had preceded him. His book is both rare and valuable. 
: "Natural History of New York State," parts I and IV. Albany, 
1 842-1 843. The state of New York was the first in the union to 
make and publish a natural history survey, and this as early as 1842. 
This work was admirably done and has served as a model for like 
surveys in other commonwealths. I am familiar only with part 4 
of Vol. I, the fishes, which was done by James Ellsworth Dekay, and 
which every present-day student of New York fishes must have 
among his working tools. 
Norris, Thaddeus : "American Fish Culture." Philadelphia, 1868. Of 
interest and value because Norris, with Garlick and a few others, 
early experimenters, laid solid foundations for the admirable and 
widespread fish culture of the present day in the U. S. 
Rafinesque-Schmaltz, Constantine Samuel (1783-1842): " Ichthyologia 
Ohiensis." Cleveland, 1899. This is a verbatim et literatim reprint 
of the original work published at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1820. 
Rafinesque was born in Constantinople, lived in Sicily and later in 
America as professor in Transylvania University at Lexington, . 
Kentucky. Of him, David Starr Jordan writes: "Brilliant, erudite, 
irresponsible, fantastic, he wrote on the . . . fishes of the Ohio 
River, with wide knowledge, keen taxonomic insight, and a hopeless 
disregard of the elementary principles of accuracy. Always eager 
for novelties, restless and credulous, his writings have been among 
the most difficult to interpret of any in ichthyology." 
Rau, Charles (1826-1887): "Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North 
America." Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. 25, 
Washington, 1885, 342 pages and 405 figures. A great outstanding 
monument of scholarship, it has no rival on this subject. 
