APPENDIX, 



AFTER Thomas Bewick retired from business in 

 favour of his son, he continued, till his death, to 

 employ himself closely, at home, in filling-up gaps, 

 in his History of British Birds; and, in conjunc- 

 tion with his son, he also commenced a History of 

 British Fishes. The finished specimens of these, 

 on the wood, are published in this Memoir. A 

 portion of a series of appropriate Vignettes, 

 executed by him for the work on Fishes, are also 

 employed as embellishments in the preceding 

 pages. About twenty of the set, together with 

 six new birds, were printed in the last edition of 

 the History of Birds. It may be proper to add, 

 that the late Robert Elliot Bewick left about fifty 

 highly-finished and accurately-coloured drawings 

 of fishes from nature, together with a portion of 

 the descriptive matter relating to the work.* 



[* These drawings are now in the Print Room of the British 

 Museum, to which institution they were presented in 1882 by Miss 

 Isabella Bewick, as part of a collection of water colours and wood- 

 cuts by her father, uncle, and brother. Many of them, e.g., the 

 John Dory, the Gurnard, the Lump Sucker, are extremely skilful, 

 and characterised by great delicacy of handling.] 



