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information is so incomplete, that we cannot assign them to any of 

 the coUectious mentioned in Garden's published letters : of a few 

 of them it is even uncertain whether Linne received them from his 

 Charlestown correspondent or from some other source. This is the 

 more to be regretted as five or six of them are either types, or, at 

 any rate, require consideration in the history of the species to which 

 they belong. Possibly more light will be thrown upon them 

 when, as I trust, the missing part of Garden's letters is dis- 

 covered. Of Linne's replies to Garden we know nothing; on his 

 return to England, Garden may have brought the letters with him, 

 or he may have left them in America in the custody of his son, 

 who conformed to the constitution of the new American Govern- 

 ment and remained in South Carolina. Thus the chances of their 

 recovery, if they be still in existence, are very remote indeed ; but 

 if by some good fortune these remarks should come under the notice 

 of some one possessing information which might lead to the discovery 

 of the missing portion of the Garden correspondence, I should 

 consider you amply repaid for the patient attention which you have 

 kindly given to this Address. 



Complete Catalogue of Linne's Private Collection of Fishes, 



NOW IN possession OF THE LiNNEAN SoCIETT. 



I. SCANDINAVIAN SERIES. 



(1) Perca fluviatilis, L. 



Skin, 5^ in. long, named by Linne. 



(2) Acerina cernua, L. 



Skin, 4| in. long, named by Linne Perca cernua, L. 



(3) MuUus barbatus, L. 



Skin, 9 in. long, named by Linne Mullus harhatus ; referring 

 to Artedi on back of sheet, " Trigla capite glabro, cirrhis 

 geminis in maxilla inferiore. Art. gen. 43. syn. 71." 



(4, 5) Caranx trachurus, L. 



Head, end of lateral line, and ventral fin, named by Linne 

 " Trachurus." 



Skin, 10 in. long, named by Linne " Tracliurus " ; and on 

 back of sheet : " Scomber linca lateral! serrata. Arted.'"' " Desir. 

 in epist. Gronov." 



