Vlll PREFATORY NOTE. 



also by Professor Coste of the French Institute ; M. Connies 

 of Strasbourg ; the authorities at Huningue ; the Intendant 

 of the Jardin d' Acclimatisation of Paris ; the late Mr. Buist of 

 Perth ; John Cleghorn, Esq. of Wick ; Jonathan Couch, Esq. ; 

 Mr. H. Dempster ; Thomas Ashworth, Esq. ; Eobert Cowie, 

 Esq. ; Mr. E. P. Scott ; Edward Cooke, Esq., E.A., to whose 

 kindness I am indebted for the characteristic sketches of 

 " The Angler Fish," and " Jack in his Element/' The various 

 Fish Groups have been arranged and drawn by Mr. Stewart ; 

 while the sketches of Lochfyne and elsewhere are from the 

 pencil of Mr. J. E. Prentice of Edinburgh. 



IOTH OCTOBER 1868. 



