XXII 



PREFACE. 



as, by that means, the cuts and the vignettes* 

 engraved for the History of Fishes will thus go 

 together. Much additional matter respecting the 

 Fishes, which had occupied so much time and 

 attention, would doubtless have found a place in 

 the pages of the Memoir, had not the hand of 

 Death so suddenly arrested the labours of the 

 Author. From the ample materials which exist, 

 the Appendix might have been greatly extended, 

 but it is now felt to be desirable to bring the 

 publication to a termination as speedily as pos- 

 sible. 



J[ane] B[ewick] 

 Gateshead-on-Tyne, May, 1862. 



*The vignette placed at page 286 [316] a view of Cherryburn, with 

 Mickley Bank in the distance, and a funeral procession descending 

 the sloping pasture towards the boat, waiting to convey it across the 

 Tyne to the last resting-place of the family at Ovingham appears, 

 from the date attached, to be the last vignette ever executed by 

 Thomas Bewick. [It is sometimes said that Bewick intended it for 

 his own funeral; but Miss Bewick did not accept this view.] 





