178 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



Dr. Solander described the specimens as they were col- 

 lected, consequently his notes are in geographical order ; 

 and one of the parts of his manuscript, entitled Pisces Aus- 

 tralia, contains descriptions of 41 species of fish which he 

 had observed on the coast of New Zealand. 



The notes made by the Forsters, father and son, are now 

 in the Library of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, 

 and are in the course of publication entire by that body ; the 

 notes relative to the fish were printed in J. G. Schneider's 

 " Sy sterna Ichthyologies, Iconibus 110 Illustratum. Berol., 

 1801." 



These drawings, having been ever since the return of the 

 travellers accessible to scientific persons of all countries, 

 have been the means of making the animals discovered 

 during these voyages well known to naturalists, and have 

 become the authority on which numerous species have been 

 described. A few of them, as the poe bird of New Zea- 

 land, were published in the plates attached to Captain 

 Cook's Voyages. 



The late venerable Dr. Latham, when engaged on his 

 Synopsis of Birds, examined them, and described most of the 

 species of birds they contained, and engraved a few of the 

 figures ; and these species have been taken up by Gmelin 

 and others. Kuhl, in his ' Monograph of the Species of 

 Procellaria,' founded most of his new species on these 

 figures. 



They afford the ichthyologist the only certain means of 

 identifying the species derived by Schneider from Forster's 

 Notes. Cuvier had them and the notes copied to assist 

 him in composing his ' History of Fish ;' and, last year, Dr. 

 Richardson consulted both collections, and compared them 

 together, and from this comparison presented to the British 

 Association a ' Report of the Ichthyology of New Zealand,' 

 to which he added a few new species from other sources, an 

 abstract of which he has kindly furnished for this Appendix. 



A considerable number of specimens were brought home 

 by the naturalists of these expeditions. Some found their 

 way into the Leverian Museum, but these have been scat- 

 tered ; and the greater number, doubtless, from the length 



