Sir C. Wyville Thomson's correspondence on the "Challenger" fishes 85 



Bonsydc 



Linlithi^'OM, N.B. 



April 1. IS SO 

 Dear Dr. Gunther: 



Many thanks for the corrected proofs. They will be put in hand in"rmcdiately and I uill send 

 you a second proof before the paper is printed off. I see most of your corrections refer to matters 

 oi form rather than Ichthyology. I do not suppose you attach much importance to the relative 

 positions of n and sp! Our way of putting it was adopted after an amount of consideration 

 sufficient for the subject, I think. It means either " new species " or " nova species " as you 

 choose. On what ground it should be inverted, unless it came in as part of a Latin sentence, I 

 am not aware. The single i terminating proper specific names ending in a consonant is in accord- 

 ance with the " Strickland Code " and is I believe correct. 



The first Zoological volume will now be out at once. I have not yet got your plates from 

 Mintern's however — but I suppose they are ready. 



I suppose you will have no ditficulty in arranging the account of the deep-sea fishes zoologically 

 and putting the report into the same form as the others. It will save a deal of trouble. The 

 sooner I can get the reports, the materials for which have been long in the hands of the authors, 

 into print the better — for there will be a great accumulation towards the end. 



Yrs faithfully, 



C. Wyville Thomson 



Bonsyde 



Linlithgow. S.B. 

 May A, 1880 

 Dear Dr. GUnther: 



I hope this will answer now. I have, as you suggested, taken out the reference to the B.M. 

 Catalogue, and have made the Report more comparable in shape of the rest. 



I trust you will not find it to require much more correction— and that you will be able to let 

 us have this Mss. proof at once, for the succeeding volume is almost finished and (we) are greatly 



pressed to put the first out of hand. r ..r n 



^ Yrs faithfully, 



C. Wyville Thomson 



Bonsyde 

 Linlithgow, N.B. 

 May 6. 1 880 



Dear Dr. Gunther: 



I think the addition of the paging to the systematic list would be a great improvement. I would 



have had it done here but our hands are very full. 



Delighted to hear that we shall soon see some deep-sea fishes. ^^ fai,h,-u||y 



C. Wyville Thomson 



Bonsyde 



Linlithgow. S.B. 

 July 5, 1880 



Dear Dr. Gunther: 



I was unlucky in missing you the last time I was in London. ^r .u. „, , .. 



You wrote me some time ago that I might expect w.thm a very short fmc some of the pLtes 

 of the deep-sea fishes. Could you drop me a line when you thmk these will be ready. I wish to 

 arrange for the next set of volumes and I want to know when your memoir will come m-as 



'"h^^^u u::^ci:^dr;ncorporaced or done anything with the set of Echinodern. . sent you^ 

 I find that they were sent in a certain sense by mistake, and I could select your full set much 



