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auspices of the "Congo Free State." To Belgium also we may 

 ascribe the work of Louis Dollo on the morphology of fishes 

 and on the deep-sea fishes obtained by the "Expedition Ant- 

 arctique Beige." 



The fish fauna of Cuba has been the lifelong study of Dr. 

 Felipe Poey y Aloy (1799-1891), a pupil of Cuvier, for a half 

 century or more the honored professor of zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Havana. Of his many useful papers, the most exten- 

 sive are his "Memorias sobre la Historia Natural de la Isla de 

 Cuba," followed by a "Repertorio" and an "Enumeratio" in 

 which the fishes are elaborately catalogued. Poey devoted 

 himself solely to the rich fish fauna of his native island, in which 

 region he was justly recognized as a ripe scholar and a broad- 

 minded gentleman. A favorite expression of his was "Comme 

 naturaliste, je ne suis pas espagnol: je suis cosmopolite." 

 Before Poey, Guichenot, of Paris, had written on the fishes 

 collected in Cuba by Ramon de la Sagra (i 810-60). His 

 account was published in Sagra's "Historia de Cuba," and later 

 Philip H. Gosse (1810-1888) wrote on the fishes of Jamaica. 

 Much earlier, Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-65) wrote 

 on the fishes of British Guiana. Other papers on the Carib- 

 bean fishes were contributed by Johannes Muller and F. H. 

 Troschel, and by Richard Hill and J. Hancock. 



Besides the work in South America of Marcgraf, Agassiz, 

 Reinhardt, Liitken, Steindachner, Jenyns, Boulenger, and 

 others already named, we may note the local studies of Dr. 

 Carlos Berg in Argentina, Dr. R. A. Philippi, and Frederico 

 T. Delfin in Chile, Miranda- Ribeiro in Brazil, with Garman, 

 J. F. Abbott, and others in recent times. Carl H. Eigenmann 

 and earlier Jordan and Eigenmann have studied the great col- 

 lections made in Brazil by Agassiz. Steindachner has de- 

 scribed the collections of Johann Natterer and Gilbert those 

 made by Dr. John Casper Branner. The most recent exam- 

 inations of the myriads of Brazilian river fishes have been made 

 by Dr. Eigenmann. Earlier than any of these (1855), Francis 

 de Castelnau (1800-65) described many Brazilian fishes and 

 afterwards numerous fishes of Australia and southern Africa. 

 Alphonse Guichenot, of Paris, contributed a chapter on fishes 

 to Claude Gay's (1800-63) "History of Chile," and J. J. von 



