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tury or more the honored professor of zoo- 

 logy in the University of Havana. Of his 

 many useful papers, the most extensive are 

 his 'Memorias sobre la Historia Natural de 

 la Isla de Cuba, ' followed by a ' Repertorio ' 

 and an 'Enumeratio' on the same subject. 

 Poey devoted himself solely to the rich fish 

 fauna of his native island, in which region 

 he was justly recognized as a ripe scholar 

 and a broad-minded gentleman. A favor- 

 ite expression of his was 'Comme natural- 

 iste, je ne suis pas espagnol: je suis cosmo- 

 polite.' Before Poey, Guichenot, of Paris, 

 had written on the fishes collected in Cuba 

 by Ramon de la Sagra. His account was 

 published in Sagra 's 'Historia de Cuba,' 

 and later Philip H. Gosse (1810-1888) 

 wrote on the fishes of Jamaica. Much ear- 

 lier, Robert Hermann Schomburgh (1804- 

 1865) wrote on the fishes of British Guiana. 

 Other papers on the Caribbean fishes were 

 contributed by Johannes Miiller and F. H. 

 Troschel, and by Richard Hill and J. Han- 

 cock. 



Besides the wort in South America of 

 Marcgrave, Agassiz, Reinhardt, Liitken, 

 Steindachner, Jenyns, Boulenger and 

 others already named, we may note the local 

 studies of Dr. Carlos Berg in Argentina, 

 Dr. R. A. Philippi in Chile, and special 

 records of Humboldt, Garman, J. P. Ab- 

 bott and others in recent times. Carl H. 

 Bigenmann and also Jordan and Eigen- 

 mann have studied the great collections 

 made in Brazil by Agassiz. Steindachner 

 has described the collections of Johann 

 Natterer, and Gilbert those made by Dr. 

 John C. Branner. The most recent ex- 

 tensive studies of the myriads of Brazilian 

 river fishes are those of Dr. Eigenmann. 

 Earlier than any of these Francis de Cas- 

 telnau (1855) described many Brazilian 

 fishes and afterwards numerous fishes of 

 Australia. Guichenot, of Paris, contrib- 

 uted a chapter on fishes to Claude Gay's 

 'History of Chile,' and J. J. von Tsehudi, 



of St. Gallen, published an elaborate but 

 uncritical 'Fauna Peruana' with colored 

 plates of Peruvian fishes. 



In New Zealand, F. W. Hutton and J. 

 Hector have published a valuable work on 

 the fishes of New Zealand, to which Dr. 

 Gill added valuable critical notes in a study 

 of ' Antipodal Faunas. ' Later writers have 

 given us a good knowledge of the fishes of 

 Australia. Notable among them are "W. 

 Macleay, James Douglas Ogilby and Edgar 

 R. Waite. Clarke has also written on 

 'Fishes of New Zealand.' 



The most valuable work on the fishes of 

 Hindustan is the elaborate treatise on the 

 'Fishes of India' by Surgeon Francis Day. 

 In this all the species are figured, the 

 groups being arranged as in Giinther 's cata- 

 logue, a sequence which few non-British 

 naturalists seem inclined to follow. Can- 

 tor's 'Malayan Fishes' is a memoir of high 

 merit, as is also McClelland 's work on the 

 fishes of the Ganges, and we may here refer 

 to Andrew Smith's papers on the fishes of 

 the Cape of Good Hope and to R. I. Play- 

 fair and A. Giinther 's ' Fishes of Zanzibar. ' 

 T. C. Jerdon, John Edward Gray, E. Tyr- 

 whitt Bennett, J. Bennett and others have 

 also written on the fishes Of India. 



In Japan, following the scattering papers 

 of Thunberg, Tilesius and Houttuyn and 

 the monumental work of Schlegel, numer- 

 ous species have been recorded by James 

 Carson Brevoort, Giinther, Gill, Edouard 

 Nystrom, Hilgendorf and others. About 

 1884 Steindachner and Doderlein publish- 

 ed the valuable 'Fische Japans,' based on 

 the collections made about Tokyo by Dr. 

 Doderlein. In 1881, Motokichi Namiye, 

 then as now Assistant Curator in the Im- 

 perial University, published the first list 

 of Japanese fishes by a native author. In 

 1900 Dr. Chiyomatsu Ishikawa, in a paper 

 on the 'Fishes of Lake Biwa, ' was the first 

 Japanese author to venture to name a new 

 species, of fish (Pseudogohio zezera). This 



