exlii Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |N.S., XIV, 
for over one hundred and sixty years and which must remain 
the permanent substructure of nomenclature in systematic 
Zoology. | 
The works of Artedi and Linnaeus excited fresh activity. — 
Osbeck, an enthusiastic student of Linnaeus, published in 1757 — 
the record of his cruise to China and Java, under the name of 
with Bougainville and Sir Joseph Banks sailed with Cook 8 
made valuable contributions to knowledge of the geograpuies 
distribution of fishes. They discovered new species in the East 
Indies. The students of Indian Ichthyology cannot afford to 
began to devote himself to Ichthyology. Bloch’s work 8 
unique, and will for ever remain so. He received @ _ 
systematic work. He prepared a general system OF thos 
tion of fishes, in whi ibed not om eh 
shes, in which he arranged and descni At swith which 4 
work was edited and i fter Bloch a 
and published in 1801 a “ Bick Sys ; 
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