GEORGE MARC GRAVE 



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Fig. 3. Photograph of the Water-color Painting of Narinari. 



came to know of them through the preface to Volume VI. of the 

 " Ichthyologie/' but as to the fidelity of the reproduction let Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes speak. 



Bloch had copied many of these figures in his Ichthyologie, but without 

 seeming to doubt that they were designed by the Prince, and what is more 

 reprehensible in him, in adding or taking away or changing a great many things 

 very arbitrarily. 18 



The set of drawings above referred to are in water colors and are 

 thus labeled in the Eoyal Library of Berlin : " Brazilianische Xatur- 

 gegenstande (Collectio rerum naturalium Brasilia;) in two Banden. 

 Libri picturati A. 36. 37." 



Their authorship and history will be discussed later. Figure three 

 is a photograph of the painting in this collection of the spotted sting- 

 ray, Narinari. When there is taken into account the fact that this 



18 This was probably written by Valenciennes, who made a special trip to 

 Berlin in 1826 to inspect these paintings. 



