Contributions to North American ichthyology
Subtitle: based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum....
By: By David S. Jordan..
Contributors: Brayton, Alembert W. 1848-1926.; Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 author of introduction, etc.; Mead, Giles W., donor.; United States. Government Printing Office; Smithsonian Institution; United States National Museum; United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Library
Series: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections -- v. 13, art. 9-10; v. 23, art. 2; Bulletin of the United States National Museum -- no. 9, 10, 12; Bulletin (United States National Museum) -- 9, 10, 12.
Publisher: Government Printing Office.
Published: 1877
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Rafinesque, C. S. -- 1783-1840.; Ichthyology -- North America.; Freshwater fishes -- North America.; Fishes -- North America -- Identification.
Other titles: Review of Rafinesque on American fishes
Notes: In three parts, each with special t.p. and series title page, separate paging, index, and advertisement, signed by Joseph Henry, listing it as "the ninth [tenth, twelfth] of a series of papers intended to illustrate the collections of natural history and ethnology belonging to the United States and constituting the National Museum .... It has been prepared at the request of the [Smithsonian] Institution".

The plates are in Part II.

Series titles have note: "Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution."

Running title of part I: "Review of Rafinesque on American fishes."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: I. Review of Rafinesque's memoirs on North American fishes / by David S. Jordan; value: II. A. Notes on Cottidae, Etheostomatidae, Percidae, Centrarchidae, Aphododeridae, Dorysomatidae, and Cyprinidae, with revisions of the generea and descriptions of new or little known species. B. Synopsis of the Siluridae of the fresh waters of North America / by David S. Jordan; value: III. A. On the distribution of the fishes of the Alleghany region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species / by David S. Jordan and Alembert W. Brayton. B. A synopsis of the family Catostomidae / by David S. Jordan.