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CHAPTER XVI. 



Works relating to Fish and Fis/ieries. 



The following list is not meant to be a complete catalogue of all the 

 works relating to the subject, for that would be more bulky than 

 the rest of the volume. No more is attempted than to give the student 

 the names of those books which should be consulted to obtain a mastery 

 of the subject, or those which contain useful or interesting information 

 about Fish and Fisheries. A few of the very ancient authors are given, 

 for they may fall within the reach of students, and they are worth 

 consulting if only for the sake of the figures by Avhich they are 

 illustrated. Sometimes the figures are ru.de and even grotesque, but 

 often they are master-pieces, and at the worst can be generally 

 recognized. Finally, the Australian portion of the list has been made 

 as complete as possible. 



Aristotle, 384 to 322 B.C. History of Animals. A Latin edition, 

 with figures, was published in Venice in 1513, folio. 



Marcus Terentius Varro ; born B.C. 126, died B.C. 26. Said to have 

 written 500 volumes, but two only extant : — De Ke Rustica 

 and Analogia, fragments only. In the former there is much 

 information about fishes and fish preserves, worth reading even 

 at the present day, 



Lucius Junius Columella ; De Re Rustica (on Agriculture). This 

 is about the most detailed work we have on the Roman Fish 

 preserves, from Avhich much may still be learned. 



Plinii Historia naturalis, lib. ix, de aquatilium natura. Pliny's 

 Nat. History, 6 vols. Bostock and Riley's translation ; Bohn's 

 edit., vol. IL The author died a.d. 79, and the 1st edit, of 

 his work was printed in 1469. In the works large numbers 

 of Roman authors are quoted at p. 237, only a few of which 

 have come down to us. 



Oppian's Halieutics. (In Greek.) 



Bellonius de aquatilibus. Paris, 1553, folio. 



Rondeletius, de piscibus. Lugd., 1554, folio. 



Salviani aquatilium animalium historiae. Rom., 1554, folio. 



Coni". Gesneri historia pisciura, in historia animalium. 1551, folio. 



Steph. a Schonvelde Ichthyologia et nomenclatura animalium 

 marinorum, &c. Hamb., 1624, 4to. 



Aldrovandus, de piscibus. Bonon. 1638, folio. 



Jonstonus, de piscibus. 



Franc. Willughby, de historia piscium. Oxf., 1686, folio. 



Jo. Rail, Synopsis methodica piscium. Lond., 1713, 8vo. 



Petr. Artedi; Ichthyologia, cura Carl. Linnaei. Lugd. Bat., 1738, 

 8vo. Cura Walbaum ; Gryp., 1788, 8vo. Cura, Schneider; 

 Leips, 1789, 4to. 



Jac. Theod. Klein; historia piscium. Gedan., 1742, 4to. 



Marc. Catesby ; piscium et serpentum imagines ad naturam 

 expressae. London, 1731, folio. 



Lailr. Theod. Gronovii ; Museum ichthyologicum. Lugd. Bat., 

 1745, in 2 vols., folio. 



