On the American fishes in the Linnaean collection

1885.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 193 Vol. VIII, No. 13. IVashingrton, ©. C. June ^, 1883. Millimeters. Greatest thickness of body 130 Height of head at eye 85 Length of snout 76 Width of snout at nostrils 88 Distance from snout to eye, obliquely 98 Distance from tip of snout to vent 572 Distance from tip of snout to nostril 77 Tip of snout to posterior margin of mouth 119 Distance from tip of snout to first gill-opening 205 Distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal 570 Distance from tip of snout to spii'acle, obliquely 148 Distance between nostrils in front > 43 Width of mouth 57 Width of superior dental lamina 50 Width of inferior dental lamina 35 Extent of projection of inferior dental lamina 20 Length of eye 36 Length of iris 14 Interorbital width on the bone 86 Distance between anterior gill openings 155 Distance between posterior gill-openings 100 Length of third gill-opening 20 Length of surface occupied by gill-openings 89 Length of nasal flap from anterior margin of nostril 44 Greatest width of nasal flap 63 Distance from spiracle to tip of pectoral 478 Greatest length of spiracle 47 Greatest width of spiracle 31 Length of dorsal base 36 Length of middle ray of dorsal 36 Length of last ray of dorsal 23 Length of ventral, including cartilaginous prominence 157 Greatest width of ventral 73 Height of tail at root 23 Width of tail at root 28 ON THE AMERICAN FISHES IN THE LINN^AN COLLECTION. By O. BROl^BT OOODE and TARLETOIV H. BEAIV. Alexander Garden, one of the earliest American naturalists, was a physician, resident in Charleston, South Carolina, in the middle of the last century. He was an enthusiastic collector and in constant corre-spondence with the great Swedish naturalist, many of his lettervS, with the accompanying notes upon his collections, being i)reserved iu the two volumes of Smith's " Correspondence of Linnseus." He was more especially a botanist, and his contributions to science Proc. Nat. Mus. 85 13

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