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works of Cuvier and Valenciennes and of 

 Giinther was spent in connection with voy- 

 ages of travel. In 1824, Quoy and Gaim- 

 ard published in Paris the great folio work 

 on the fishes collected by the corvettes 

 L'Uranie and La Physicienne in Freycinet's 

 voyage around the world. In 1834, the 

 same authors published the fishes collected 

 in Dumont D 'Urville 's voyage of the Astro- 

 labe. In 1826 Lesson published the fishes 

 voyage around the world. In 1834, the 

 great works lie at the foundation of our 

 knowledge of the fishes of Polynesia. In 

 1839, Eydoux and Gervais published the 

 fishes of the voyage of La Favorite. In 

 1853, also in Paris, Homborn and Jacqui- 

 not gave an account of the fishes taken in 

 Dumont D 'Urville 's expedition toward the 

 South Pole. In England, Sir John Eich- 

 ardson, a wise and careful naturalist, 

 wrote of the fishes collected by the 

 Sulphur (1845), the Erebus and Ter- 

 ror (1846) and the Herald. Lay and 

 Bennett recorded the species taken by 

 Beechey's voyage on the Blossom. More 

 important than any of these is the account 

 of the species taken by Charles Darwin on 

 the voyage of the Beagle, prepared by the 

 conscientious hand of Rev. Leonard Jenyns. 

 Still more important and far ranging is the 

 voyage of the Challenger, including the 

 first important work in the deep seas, the 

 stately volume and parts of other volumes 

 on fishes being the work of Dr. Giinther. 

 Other deep-sea work of equal importance 

 has been accomplished in the Atlantic and 

 the Pacific by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross. Its results in Central 

 America, Alaska and Japan, as well as off 

 both coasts of the United States, have been 

 made known in different memoirs by Goode 

 and Bean, Garman, Gilbert, Gill, Jordan, 

 Cramer and others. The deep-sea fish collec- 

 tions of the Fish Hawh and the Blake have 

 been studied by Goode and Bean and Gar- 

 man. 



The deep-sea work of other countries may 

 be briefly noticed. The French vessels, 

 Travailleur and Talisman, have made col- 

 lections chiefly in the Mediterranean and 

 along the coast of Africa, the results having 

 been made known by Leon Vaillant. The 

 Hirondelle about the Azores and elsewhere 

 has furnished material for Professor Rob- 

 ert Collett, of the University of Christiania. 

 Dr. Decio Vinciguerra, of Rome, has re- 

 ported on the collections of the Violante, a 

 vessel belonging to the Prince of Monaco. 

 Dr. A. Alcock, of Calcutta, has had charge of 

 the most valuable deep-sea work of the In- 

 vestigator in the Indian seas. Dr. James 

 Douglas Ogilby and Dr. Edgar R. White, 

 Sydney, N. S. W., have described the collec- 

 tions of the Thetis, made on the shores of 

 New South Wales. 



From Austria the voyage of the frigate 

 Novara has yielded large material which 

 has been described by Dr. Rudolph Kner. 

 The cream of many voyages of many Dan- 

 ish vessels has been gathered in the ' Spolia 

 Atlantica' and other truly classical papers 

 of Christian Frederik Liitken, of the Uni- 

 versity of Copenhagen, one of the great, 

 naturalists of our times. 



F. H. von Kittlitz has written on the 

 fishes seen by him in the northern Pacific, 

 and earlier and more important we may 

 mention the many ichthyologieal notes 

 found in the travel records of Alexander 

 von Humboldt in Mexico and South Ameri- 

 ca. 



The local faunal work in various nations 

 has been very extensive. In Great Britain 

 we may note Parnell's 'Natural History of 

 the Fishes of the Firth of Forth, ' publish- 

 ed in Edinburgh in 1838, William Tarrell's 

 'History of British Fishes' (1859), the ear- 

 lier histories of British fishes by Edward 

 Donovan and by William Turton, and the 

 works of J. Couch (1862) and Dr. Francis 

 Day (1888), which possess similar titles. 

 The work of Day, with its excellent plates. 



