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uniform size and texture, and labelled them with the generic name 

 in capital letters at the top ut' the sheet, and with the name of the 

 species at the bottom. Only exceptionally did he take the same 

 trouble with specimens of subsequent consignments. Besides, the 

 specimens thus mounted are such as cannot be assigned to the later 

 lots. I can refer only 9 specimens to this first collection with 

 some degree of certainty ; five are types. 



^luch more important was the second collection, transmitted in 

 17G1. Although the complete list of tlie specimens is also losr, 

 Garden's letter of April 12, 1761 (Corresp. Linn. i. p. 303), con- 

 tains notes by which we are enabled to recognize many of them. 

 Another great help in their identification we have in Garden's 

 original labels, which Linne did not remove, as he had done in the 

 first collection ; they consist of a broad strip of paper wound round 

 the tail of the fishes, on which Garden wrote the number of the 

 specimen, the name of the Liunean genus, and the vernacular 

 name. Frequently he repeated the number on the body of the fish, 

 whilst Linne used also the label for adding the specific name given 

 by himself. This consignment consisted of at least 50 specimens, 

 under 43 numbers, of which I have identified 33, among them 

 some 29 types and cotypes. Among the missiug specimens are two 

 important types (nos. 17 and 'lb), which seem to have been lost 

 after the collection came into Smith's possession, since he himself 

 recognized in them the types of Anjeatina Carolina and Balistes 

 hispidas (Corresp. Linn. i. p. 306). 



The information which we have about the thlixl consignment, 

 made by Garden in the year 1763, is contained in his letter of 

 June 2 (Corresp. Linn. i. p. 309). The specimens were prepared, 

 labelled and described by him very much in the same manner as 

 those of the preceding collection. In that letter 27 numbers are 

 mentioned, but of some of the species Garden communicated to 

 Linne notes onlj-, as he found Sharks, Dogfishes, etc. too bulky to 

 be conveniently enclosed in his parcels. I have identified twelve 

 of these numbers, ten of them being types of Linnaean species. 

 Xone of the missing numbers were types, so that on the whole this 

 consignment proved to be comparatively as important as the one of 

 1761, and its scientific value has not been diminished by the loss 

 of the missing specimens. 



The fourth and, as far as we know, last consignment of fishes 

 reached Linne in 1771. Garden had despatched one of his servants 

 to the Bahamas for the purpose of making collections for Linne', 

 but the greater portion of the specimens were destroyed on the 

 collector's return journey. In his letter of June 20th, Garden 

 enumerates only 14 fishes, of which I have been able to identify 

 10. As these fishes reached Linne several years after the publi- 

 cation of the 12th edition, and are not referred to in any of his 

 works, they do not possess the same historical value as those 

 previously received. 



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