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9. Schizothorax planifrons, id. 0. ¢. t. viii. f. 2. Snout above the axis of the body, and some- 
what recurved, crown depressed, cirri longer than in the others. 
10. Schézothorax esocinus, id. 0. ¢. t. ix. Snout placed in the axis of the body, head long, 
depressed ; operculum terminates behind in a long angular process ; mouth long, as in the ordinary 
Barbels, spots dispersed irregularly on the sides above the lateral line and on the base of the dorsal 
and anal fins. 
This last form approaches to the true Barbels, and the succeeding species 
described by M. v. Heckel as Barbus diplochilus, t. x. f. 1. is either an Ore?- 
nus or a Gonorhynchus. 
It would really seem as if we intended to leave all that requires either 
intellect or observation to discover in the productions of India to our 
neighbours on the continent. It is true, Natural History is not a pursuit 
likely to enrich the individuals who follow it; but as calculated to direct 
the energies of a nation to practical objects, as well as to afford the best 
promise of new articles either for our luxuries or our wants, its claims are 
not to be despised.* To be fairly rivalled in any pursuits where facilities 
* It is not an uncommon thing with us, to witness the publication of journals, reports, travels, 
and books of various kinds devoted to new countries, without a single remark to show that the au- 
thor of any of them seemed at all aware that the creation consists of any thing deserving of observa- 
tion but himself and his kind. However excusable this may be in the mere tourist, it is hardly so 
in those who are supposed to have been selected for their presumed acquirements as Naturalists. 
While we are thus indifferent to objects that should connect our names with the science of our 
country, the collections of M. Jacquemont, M. A. De Lessert, M. Von Hiigel, and other distinguish- 
ed foreigners are daily appearing, some under the auspices of Societies abroad, and others under that 
of foreign noblemen who devote their wealth to the promotion of science; so that, however the 
sciences of Europe may be expressed in the English language, those of India are likely to be found 
only in languages foreign to the English student. The Indian Education Committee, at whose door 
Buchanan’s MSS. have so long lain, while ten thousand pounds: a year have been expended by 
them in juvenile schools, should look to the situation to which they are soon likely to be reduced. 
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