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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE 
OF THE LATE 
CAPTAIN DUGALD CARMICHAEL, F.L.S. 
By the Rey. Couin Smiru, Minister of Inverary. 
[Continued from page 59 of the present Volume] 
Ix the year 1807, Capt. Carmichael volunteered to accom- 
pany a detachment which was sent to Algoa Bay, a remote 
and then * little known outpost," to the south of the Cape; 
in order that he might have the opportunity of comparing 
its productions with those of the latter station. It was in 
this district that he turned his attention to Icthyology; and 
he has left drawings and descriptions of many fishes, found 
not only there, but in other parts of the coast of Africa and 
in Asia, which, after having carefully compared with those 
described by Shaw, and in other works which treated on that 
subject, he hesitated not to consider new. It has not, how- 
ever, been deemed advisable to load the present memoir with 
the details of these, since many of them are now published 
in the more recent volumes of Zoological authors. It is but 
Justice to remark, that these descriptions are drawn up with 
great care; and his anxiety to illustrate this obscure bran 
of Natural History, is well exemplified in the following passage 
from one of the pages in his journal. 
* The bays of Southern Africa are well stocked with fish, 
many of which are of large size and excellent quality. Cape- 
town is abundantly supplied from Table Bay, by boats which 
8o out early in the morning, and return before the hour of 
dinner. To pass some part of my idle time, I took sketches 
in pencil of all the species that are caught in that bay; 
exposed for sale in the market. They appear to be almost 
entirely unknown to Naturalists, so far at least as I could judge 
from looking over Shaw's Icthyology, in which there are only 
three species of them described. I traced the outlines with 
