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[[underlined]] Important Accessions [[/underlined]]

The most noteworthy additions to the collection of fishes during the six months ending June 30, 1885, are from the following sources:
  
(1) [[underlined]] Species of interest to fish culturists, obtained through the U.S. Fish Commission. [[/underlined]]

A white fish, [[underlined]] Coregonus albula, [[/underlined]] L., has been introduced into the United States recently. Specimens in alcohol were received from Max von dam Borne, May 28, 1885. (Catalogue numbers 37201, 37202.) This i a small species of the "lake herring" ([[underlined]] C. artedi [[/underlined]] type and is native to the north of continental Europe. Von den Borne's examples are from lakes Telender and Baland in Prussia. [[underlined]] Coregonus albula [[/underlined]] is distinguished from [[underlined]] C. Artedi [[/underlined]] by its smaller number of gill-rakes (39) and longer dorsal and anal rays. The scale formula is about the same