exlviii Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
Boulogne has written largely on the fishes of Asia, Africa 
and other regions. Charles De Vis, William Macleay, H. De 
Maclay, J. D. Ogilby, Edgar R. Waite and Clark are all writers 
of note who made valuable contributions to the knowledge of 
h in Polynesian and Australian seas; their works havea 
direct bearing on the study of Indian fish. : 
e one work most essential to Indian Ichthyologists, or — 
indeed to the systematic study of the fishes of any region, is 
monumental work Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum — 
published from 1859 to 1870 as the result of the laborious 
devotion and patient industry of late Dr. Albert C. LG — 
Giimther, for a number of years the honoured keeper of the 
British Museum. 6,843 species are described and 1,68 
doubtful species mentioned in this work. The publication gave 
great impetus to the study of fishes, and the number of known 
species has now been raised to nearly double that dealt with in 
Giinther’s great work. Among the extensive contributions: 
to Ichthyology made by this writer, too numerous to 
summarised here, students of Indian fishes cannot dispense? — 
with his various reports on fish collections made in the course of 4 
political and scientific missions and of travels in countries 
us papers on Indi : 
the Caleutta Journal of Noun History, which he publishet 
