Few accounts of fishes in the area here reported on have been published.
Evermann and Fordice (1886:184) made a collection from Timber Creek at
Winfield in 1884.
The State Biological Survey collected actively from 1910 to 1912, but
localities visited in the Arkansas River System were limited to the
Neosho and Verdigris River basins (Breukelman, 1940:377). The only
collection made in the area considered here was on the Elk River in Elk
County on July 11, 1912. The total species list of this collection is
not known.
In the years 1924-1929 Minna E. Jewell collected at various places in
central Kansas. On June 30, 1925, Jewell and Frank Jobes made
collections on Timber Creek and Silver Creek in Cowley County.
Hoyle (1936:285) mentions collections made by himself and Dr. Charles E.
Burt, who was then Professor of Biology at Southwestern College,
Winfield, Kansas. Records in the Department of Biology, Kansas State
Teachers College at Emporia, indicate that Dr. Burt and others made
collections in the area which have not been published on.
TABLE 4.--COLLECTIONS MADE BY DR. FRANK B. CROSS OF THE STATE
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY IN 1955.
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Collection number | Date | River | Location
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C-131 | April 5, 1955 | Elk | Sec. 3, T31S, R11E
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C-132 | April 5, 1955 | Sycamore | Sec. 5, T34S, R10E
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C-133 | April 5, 1955 | Big Caney | Sec. 12, T34S, R8E
------------------+---------------+-----------+---------------------
C-136 | April 6, 1955 | Walnut | Sec. 29 or 32, T32S,
| | | R4E
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Claire Schelske (1957) studied fishes of the Fall and Verdigris Rivers
in Wilson and Montgomery counties from March, 1954, to February, 1955.
In the annotated list of species that follows, records other than mine
are designated by the following symbols:
E&F--Evermann and Fordice
SBS--State Biological Survey (1910-1912)
J&J--Jewell and Jobes (collection on Silver Creek)
C--Collection number--Cross (State Biological Survey, 1955)
UMMZ--University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
OAM--Oklahoma A&M College Museum of Zoology