Laws recently enacted by most of the states for the better protection of the game, imposing a nominal license for the privilege of hunting it, have enabled us to take a census, as it were, of that vast number of the American people who enjoy the health-giving sports of the field. This census reveals the […]

The hybrid fishes described herein are _Chrosomus erythrogaster_ (Rafinesque) × _Notropis cornutus frontalis_ (Agassiz), _C. erythrogaster_ × _Semotilus atromaculatus_ (Mitchill), _Campostoma anomalum plumbeum_ (Girard) × _S. atromaculatus_, _Gila nigrescens_ (Girard) × _Rhinichthys cataractae_ (Valenciennes), and _Notropis venustus venustus_ (Girard) × _Notropis whipplei_ (Girard). Two of the combinations have been reported, without descriptions, in literature (citations […]

AN ALLEGED humorist once proposed the query, “Are all fishermen liars, or do only liars go fishing?” This does not seem to me to be funny. It is doubtless true that a cynical attitude of suspicion and doubt is often exhibited on the recital of a fishing exploit. I believe the joke editors of magazines […]

This report concerns the ability of fish-populations in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes rivers in Kansas to readjust to continuous stream-flow following intermittent conditions resulting from the severest drought in the history of the State. The variable weather in Kansas (and in other areas of the Great Plains) markedly affects its flora and fauna. […]

The Wakarusa River rises in the eastern edge of the Flint Hills and flows approximately 50 miles in an easterly direction and empties into the Kansas River near Eudora; with its tributaries, the Wakarusa drains 458 square miles in parts of Wabaunsee, Shawnee, Osage, and Douglas counties of northeastern Kansas (Fig. 1). The average gradient […]

The Big Blue River in northeastern Kansas will soon be impounded by the Tuttle Creek Dam, located about five miles north of Manhattan, Kansas. Since the inception of this project by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers much argument has arisen as to the values of the dam and reservoir as opposed to the […]

Aims of the distributional study here reported on concerning the fishes of a part of the Arkansas River Basin of south-central Kansas were as follows: Ascertain what species occur in streams of the three counties. Ascertain habitat preferences for the species found. Distinguish faunal associations existing in different parts of the same stream. Describe differences […]

The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle. “Don’t give up if you don’t catch fish; the unsuccessful trip should whet your appetite to try again.”–GROVER CLEVELAND. A preface is either an excuse or an explanation, or both. The Brook Trout […]

The object of this little book is to give in as simple a form as possible a short account of some of the British Wild Bees, Wasps, Ants, etc., scientifically known as the _Hymenoptera Aculeata_. Of these the non-scientific public rarely recognizes more than the Hive Bee, the Humble Bee, the Wasp, and the Hornet, […]

For some years, much of my leisure time has been devoted to the study of the anatomy, development, and habits of the Annulosa, and especially of Insects, on which subjects I have published various memoirs, chiefly in the Transactions of the Royal, Linnæan, and Entomological Societies: of these papers I subjoin a list. Although the […]