. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. le and accurateaccount of the fishes of the Great Lakes andCanada. Almost simultaneously, Rev. ZadockThompson (1796-1856) gave a catalogue of thefishes of Vermont, and David Humphreys Storer(1804-91) began his work on the fishes ofMassachusetts, finally expanded into a Synop-sis of the Fishes of North America (1846) anda History of the Fishes of Massachusetts(1867). Dr. John Edwards Holbrook (1794-1871), of Charleston, published (i860) his i
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. le and accurateaccount of the fishes of the Great Lakes andCanada. Almost simultaneously, Rev. ZadockThompson (1796-1856) gave a catalogue of thefishes of Vermont, and David Humphreys Storer(1804-91) began his work on the fishes ofMassachusetts, finally expanded into a Synop-sis of the Fishes of North America (1846) anda History of the Fishes of Massachusetts(1867). Dr. John Edwards Holbrook (1794-1871), of Charleston, published (i860) his in-valuable record of the fishes of South monograph on Lake Superior (1850), and Henry Gilbert (i860—), a student of Profes-sor Copeland, took up the work, and in 1883 aSynopsis of the Fishes of North Americawas completed by Jordan and Gilbert. Dr. Gil-bert has since been engaged in studies of thefishes of Panama, Alaska, and other regions, andthe second and enlarged edition of the Synop-sis was completed in 1898, as the Fishes ofNorth and Middle America, in collaborationwith another of the writers students, Dr. BartonWarren Atlantic Bat-fish (Malthe ves/ertilio). other publications of Louis Agassiz (1807-73) are well known. One of the first ofAgassizs students was Charles Girard (1822-95),, who came with him from Switzerland,and in association with Spencer Fullerton Baird(1823-87) described the fishes from the UnitedStates Pacific Railway Surveys (1858) and theUnited States and Mexican Boundary Surveys(1859). Most eminent among the students and as-sistants of Professor Baird was his successor,George Brown Goode (1851-99), whose great-est work, Oceanic Ichthyology. published incollaboration with Dr. Tarleton Hoffman Bean, Vol. 8—50 As students of the extinct fishes, followingthe epoch-making Poissons Fossiles of LouisAgassiz, some of the notable names are thoseof Pander, Asmuss, Heckel, Hugh Miller, andRamsay H. Traquair. An indispensable Hand-buch de
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