PREFACE. 



Flora of Swansea/' 1818, chapter iii, from page 11 to 17, being on the local 

 fish-fauna. In 1851, Mr. Adam White and Dr. John Edward Gray published 

 a " List of the specimens of British Animals in the British Museum/' fish 

 occupying 162 pages. Baker gave a paper on the " Fishes of Somerset- 

 shire/' in 1851, to the " Somersetshire Archa3ological and Natural History 

 Society," in the proceedings of which it is published. Harris, in 1851, 

 published in volume ix of the " Zoologist," a " List of the fishes of the 

 Moray Firth/' Gordon, in 1852, in the same publication, also gave a list of 

 those from the Moray Firth. In the same year Peach gave a paper to 

 the British Association on " Some fishes found at Peterhead." In 1853, 

 W* Baihie gave a list of the "Fishes of the Orkneys and Shetlands," in 

 the " Zoologist." Dr.. A. Gilnther, p.k.s., published between 1859 and 

 1870 a " Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum," in eight 

 Volumes. In the appendix to Ferguson's "Natural History of Redcar," 

 is an account of the fishes of that locality. In 18 GO, Mrs. Merrifield, 

 in ' ' A sketch of the Natural History of Brighton and its Vicinity/' gives 

 a chapter on the " Fishes." In 1861, Mr. Iliggins published in the 

 " Zoologist " " Remarks on some of the fishes of Weston-sivper-Mare." 

 Couch commenced his " Fishes of the British Isles " in 1862, and 

 completed them in 1865, in three volumes, with 252 coloured plates. 

 In 1864, Gill published in the " Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Science of Philadelphia," 1864 (p. 199), a paper "on the affinities of several 

 doubtful British Fishes." Mcintosh, in the "Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh," volume v, 1862-65,* gave a paper on "the Fishes 

 of North Uist," and in 1874, in a work on "the Marine Invertebrates and 

 Fishes of St. Andrews," describes the latter (pp. 171-185). Dr. Lowe, in the 

 "Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society,"- 1873-74, 

 published an account of the " Fishes of Norfolk." In 1875, Mr. E. Parfitt, 

 in the " Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and Literature," gave an account of the " Fishes of Devonshire." 

 In 1876, the investigations of. Edward in Banffshire were published in "the 

 Life of a Scotch Naturalist," and a list in the appendix (pp. 417-429). 

 Mr. G. Sim includes the observations made by the late Dr. Dyce, in a 

 " Catalogue of fish found in the vicinity of Aberdeen " in the Transactions 

 of the local Society in 1878. Mr. Dunn, in the " Journal of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall," no. xxii, gave " Remarks upon some Cornish 

 Fishes." Mr. Franh BucMand, in 1873, published a "Familiar History 

 of British Fishes," enlarged in 1880, and termed a " Natural History 



* Subsequent to the publication of part viii of this work and the completion of the addenda, 

 Dr. Mcintosh kindly forwarded to me a specimen of Lwmpemts lampetrwformis, which Blennoid 

 had been trawled fifteen miles off St. Abb's head, and the first recorded British specimen (see 

 " Proceedings of Zoological Society for June," 1884, with a figure). 



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