tN DAAN TOY PRINID AL 
By MR. JOHN M‘CLELLAND, 
AssISTANT SuRGEON BenGAL MepicaL SERVICE. 
Presented, 5th September, 1838. 
Dr. Parrick Russet published in 1803 an account of 200 species of 
fishes found chiefly on the coast of Coromandel; there appears to be no 
copy of his work in Calcutta, nor have I been able to meet with it in 
India; but his collection appears to have embraced few Cyprinide, and 
scarcely any of those afterwards found in Bengal by Dr. Buchanan.* The 
fishes of Ceylon as well as those of the Bay of Bengal have recently ex- 
cited the attention of naturalists,+ while those of the Sunderbuns and the 
vicinity of Calcutta have long been objects of interest to collectors for 
the Museums of France and the other parts of the continent, where alone 
ichthyology seems to have been cultivated as a philosophical branch of 
zoology. 
* Afterwards Dr. Bucuanan Hamiitron. As most of his publications have appeared under 
the name of Buchanan, authors should follow the example of Cuvier in the Régne Animal and 
Histotre Naturelle Des Poissons in referring to the author of the Gangetic Fishes by the name by 
which he is best and will be universally known, in proportion as his vast works on Indian 
statistics and Natural History transpire. 
+ Mr. Bennett and my friend Dr. Cantor. 
