4i 6 The History of Ichthyology 



Tschudi, of St. Gallen, published an elaborate but uncritical 

 "Fauna Peruana" with colored plates of Peruvian fishes. 



In New Zealand, F. W. Hutton and J. Hector have pub- 

 lished a valuable work on the fishes of New Zealand, to which 

 Dr. Gill added useful critical notes in a study of "Antipodal 

 Faunas." Later writers have given us a good knowledge of 

 the fishes of Australia. Notable among them are Charles DeVis, 

 William Macleay, H. de Miklouho-Maclay, James Douglas 

 Ogilby, and Edgar R. Waite. Clarke has also written on 

 "Fishes of New Zealand." 



The most valuable work on the fishes of Hindustan is the 

 elaborate treatise on the "Fishes of India" by Surgeon Francis 

 Day. In this all the species are figured, the groups being 

 arranged as in Gunther's catalogue, a sequence which few non- 

 British naturalists seem inclined to follow. Cantor's "Malayan 

 Fishes" is a memoir of high merit, as is also McClelland's work 

 on Indian fishes and the still earlier work of Francis Buchanan 

 Hamilton on the fishes of the Ganges. We may here refer to 

 Andrew Smith's papers on the fishes of the Cape of Good Hope 

 and to R. I. Playfair and A. Gunther's "Fishes of Zanzibar." 

 T. C. Jerdon, John Edward Gray, E. Tyrwhitt Bennett, and 

 others have also written on the fishes of India; J. C. Bennett 

 has published several excellent papers on the fishes of Poly- 

 nesia and the East Indies. 



In Japan, following the scattering papers of Thunberg, 

 Tilesius, and Houttuyn, and the monumental work of Schlegel, 

 numerous species have been recorded by James Carson Bre- 

 voort, Giinther, Gill, Eduard Nystrom, Hilgendorf, and others. 

 About 1884 Steindachner and Doderlein published the val- 

 uable "Fische Japans," based on the collections made about 

 Tokyo by Dr. Doderlein. In 1881, Motokichi Namiye, then 

 assistant curator in the Imperial University, published the 

 first list of Japanese fishes by a native author. In 1900, Dr. 

 Chiyomatsu Ishikawa, on the " Fishes of Lake Biwa," was the 

 first Japanese author to venture to name a new species of fish 

 (Pseudogobio zezerd). This reticence was due not wholly to 

 lack of self-confidence, but rather to the scattered condition 

 of the literature of Japanese ichthyology. For this reason 

 no Japanese author has ever felt that any given undetermined 



