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the Samarang and the Herald. Still more important and far 
ranging is the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, including the first 
important work on deep-seas species by Dr. A. Giinther, Other 
valuable work on the deep-sea forms has also been accomplished 
by Goode and Bean, Gilbert, Garman, Gill, Jordan and Ryder, 
who have reported on fish obtained by the U.S. Fish Commis- 
sion Steamer Albatross and by the Fish Hawk and the Blake. 
Edgar R. Waite and James Douglas Ogilby of the Australian 
Museum described the collections of the Thetis, From Austria 
the voyage of the frigate Novara yielded large material des- 
cribed by Rudolph Kner (1865—68). Nor can the students of 
Indian fishes neglect the study of fossil fishes, especially the 
magnum opus of Louis Agassiz, i.c. Poissons Fossiles, the 
catalogue of fossil fishes of the British Museum from 1845 by 
Dr. Woodhead and others, and above all the splendid publications 
of Dr. R. H. Traquair of the Edinburgh Museum during last four 
* decades. 
Before coming to the Indian Ichthyologists of recent years 
1 will mention the names of a few of those who have devoted 
their life-time to the study of the fish of the countries surround- 
ing India, for without their help an Indian student cannot 
Proceed far. [Foremost among them stands Dr. P. Bleeker. 
Dr. P. Bleeker (1819—1878) was a surgeon in the service 
of the Dutch East Indian Government, who between the years 
1840 and 1870 got together immense collections of the fishes 
of the Indo-Australian Archipelago and described them in 
numerous papers published chiefly in the journals of the 
Batavian Society. In 1853 he published a paper entitled 
Ichihyologische fauna van Bengalen, with lists of all the fishes 
Previously described from India and detailed descriptions of 
162 species. In 1862 he gave descriptions of 11 species of 
‘arp from Ceylon, illustrated with four plates containing 
eleven coloured figu . Scon after his return to Europe (1860) 
he commenced a large work illustrated by coloured plates 
styled Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néerlandaises, 
the publication of which was interrupted after the ninth volume 
author’s death in 1878. Splendid as these volumes are, 
the colouring of the figures only proves the justification of Rus-— 
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_,_ Professor H. Schlegel, of the University of Leyden, pub- 
lished between 1843 to 1850 his work Fauna Japonica on fishes 
