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voluminous writer and author of the 
famous Atlas Ichthyogique des Indes 
(1862). ‘This superb production, with 
its wealth of colored plates, was inter- 
rupted in 1878 through the death of its 
eminent author. 
The fishes of Central and Eastern 
Africa received, in different works, the 
attention of Gunther, Petterick and W. 
Peters, while those of New Zealand were 
Spencer Fullerton Baird 
described by Hutton, Hector and others 
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1875, C. Lutkin gave his attention to the 
ichthyology of Greenland, and ten years 
previously A. J. Malmgren had devoted 
himself to the fishes of Spitzbergen. 
As for the fishes of Cuba, my old 
friend and correspondent, Filipe Poey, 
of Havana, described a large number of 
them in his Memorias sobre la Historia 
natural de la Isle de Cuba, commenced in 
1851, and his Repertorio Fisico-natural 
de la Isla de Cuba (1865), both of which 
works he presented to my private library. 
South American fishes were touched 
upon by Agassiz, Gunther, Castelnau and 
others, while the ichthyology of Mexico 
and Central America received the atten- 
tion of such writers as Vaillant, Bocourt, 
Gunther and Steindachner, the two last- 
named principally to the fishes of Central 
and South America. 
In our own country, we have had 
many distinguished and eminent contrib- 
utors to the science of ichthyology, 
among the earliest of whom was J. Rich- 
ardson. In Part III of his well-known 
Fauna Boreali-Americana (1836) he de- 
scribed not a few species of the fishes of 
British America. 
In Part IV of his “Zoology of New 
York,” De Kay, in 1842, described many 
of the fishes of that section of the coun- 
try, and it was fully thirty years after 
that before other works of any import- 
ance began to appear. Chief among these 
latter was the five-volume Report of the 
United States Commission of Fish and 
Fisheries, which was published between 
the years 1873 and 1879. These reports 
long remained standard, and later on 
began to be supplemented by ichthyologi- 
cal papers, which were contributed to 
various journals and similar publications 
by writers on fish of those times. Fortu- 
nately for science, the Reports of our 
Government were frequently devoted to 
accounts of and fresh-water 
fishes of the United States, and these 
began to appear more often as time went 
on. 
During these years, and earlier, the 
list of writers in Europe on the morph- 
ology of fishes was, indeed, a long one, 
and it would be quite out of the question 
to name even a part of them in this arti- 
cle. However, I may mention those with 
whom I was in direct correspondence ; 
for example, W. Kitchen Parker and his 
two sons, W. Newton Parker and T. 
Jeffrey Parker, of Dunedin, New Zea- 
land; Mr. Thomas Henry Huxley, Carl 
Gegenbaur, Hasse, C. Vogt, A. Gunther, 
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