MKMOIKS OF TIIK NATIONAL ACADHMV OF SCIENCFS. i)3 



(n) Auckland islaiKls, and (tl) tlin distribution of Australasian (islu's beyond Australasia ( "extra- 

 Australasiatici "). The numbers of species attributed to the respective regions were as follows: 



Nova Ilollamlia -*' 



Novii Zet'liuiUia .- 71 



Oiiuienia 7'' 



Insula Norfolkiin ** 



Insula Aiieklnn(Iin> •'' 



Kxtra-AustraliuiiHtioi 1^'' 



Dr. Bleeker did not display in this memoir his usual familiarity with the literalim, and 

 manifested no acquaintance with the articles of Richardson on the (islics of New Zealand. Many 

 of Forster's fishes were also overlooked. 



4. FREDEBICK WOLLASTON IlUTTON (1). 



FisliosofX.nv Zealaiul. Cat:ilo«ii(«, with clia^'inisos of tlio spocii's. Ily Froiloriik Wollastiin lliitton, Notes on tlio 

 oiiil)!.' fishos, liy .Jam.-s lliTtor, M. n , Wellington.— 1K72. \H\i,. xvi, 133, ii |.))., 12 |.l., iii pp.] 



141 luitivo and 7 introduced species were described ami 1!» illu.strated l)y outline fifrures on 12 

 plates. 



5. R. A. A. SnERRiN. 



Ilantlbook of the ti.^lirs of Now Zealanil.— rreparod under the in«tniction.s of the Conimission.T of Trade aM<lC'nstoiM8 

 by K. A. A. .Shirrin.— Auckland: Wilsons and Horton.— mdccci.xxxvi. [8vo, 2 pi., iv, pp. 307, 1 folded 

 map.] 



A dictionary (pp. 9—128, 129—143) in which the principal (1) .salt-water and (2) freshwater 

 species are noticed under their Engli.sh names in alphabetical order, and a " List of Fishes of New 

 Zealand" (pp. 298.307), are the chief features of the "Handbook." The work is that of a com- 

 piler and not of an original investigator, and as such is as reliable as could be reasonably expected. 



G. Frederick Wollaston IIutton (2). 



List of the New Zealand fishes. By Professor F. W. Hntton. <Tran8. N. Z. Inst, vol. xxn, pp. 275-285, 1889. 



The list enumerates 226 species, "the arrangement followed being that of Dr. Gunther's 'Study 

 of Fishes.'" References arc given "which show the evidence for the species being included in 

 the list." It is a valuable and well-considered summary of what bad been made known ni» to the 

 date of publication. 



III. 



THE F01{.SJ'K1!IAN FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



The first glimpse of the piscine fauna of New Zealand is due to Dr. John Reiuhold Forster, 

 who accompanied the celebratetl Oapt. Cooke on his second voyage, and visited New Zealand in 

 177.3 and again in 1774. l'^)rster made full descrijjtions, and his son George drew sketches of 

 many fishes observed by him and gave them scientific names, but his own work embodying these 

 observations remained unpublislied for nearly three-quarters of a century. Meanwhile, however, 

 For.ster's manuscripts fell into tlic hands of Schneider, the editor and <ornpleter of Bloch's 

 "Systema IcbthyoIogia>," and the new species of fishes were incorporated in the "Systeiua" gen- 

 erally with Foster's own names, but in some cases with new ones. 



II. 



The New Zealand fishes credited to Forster in the "Systema" were as follows; (1) the num- 

 bers in the left-hand column inilicating the pages; (2) the names in the second column being those 

 of Forster and Schneider, and (3) the names in the right-hand column being those for the present 

 adopted. 



