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Fort Glark, Brackettville, Texas, 
March 20, 1893. 
To Dr. F. W. True, 
U. S. Na t i ona 1 Mruseum, 
Washington, D. G. 
Dear Sir: 
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The fishes are of special interest as furnishing 
new material from classic ground from the type lo¬ 
calities of the species described by~.Baird and 
Girard in the Mex. Bd , Rep. , etc. I have examined 
about 20 species of fishes, and in most instances 
preserved specimens. In Las Moras creek are sev¬ 
eral forms of Lepomis pall idus and L. megafotfs de¬ 
scribed by Bd. and Gir. ; Micropterus nuecensis 
(M. salmoides ); Heros cyanoguttatus , Tetragonopte- 
rus argent atus ; Dorosoma cepedianum ; Litholepi s 
tristorchus; several species of Gats (Ictalurus and 
a round-tailed species seen but not examined; 
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several suckers ( Maxastoma macro lepidoturn , etc. etc . ) 
etc. etc. 
You might tear off the above note and hand it 
to Prof. Bean: and I will append the suggestion 
that he furnish me with a net (seine) like the one 
sent me at El Paso, and that in his report of the 
fishes gathered on the boundary line he also include 
those sent by me from Fort Verde, Arizona and the 
collection to be made here in Texas. My long-de¬ 
layed notes on the Arizona fishes will be sent him 
when called for, though they are scattered through 
my notes in a way that will make it troublesome to 
collect them. If my memory serves me I have quite 
full notes on several species based on a good many 
specimens of each, with detailed measurements, for¬ 
mulae, notes of coloration and rough paper tracings . 
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I remain 
Sincerely yours. 
(Signed) Edgar A. Meams. 
