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edited for six years from 1841. Mr. Blyth, the distinguished 
Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
contributed several interesting and important articles to the 
Journals and the Proceedings of the Society from 1858 to 1860 
on several fish collections from India, Burma and the Andaman 
Islands. Mr. H. 8. Thomas of the Madras Civil Service has left 
valuable information in his Rod of India and Pisciculture in 
South Canara. 
resulted in a folio volume on the Fishes of Malabar in 1865, a 
beautifully illustrated publication, though in other respects a 
most disappointing performance. In 1867 Sir Arthur Cotton 
drew the attention of the Secretary of State to the supposed 
injury that had been done to the coast fisheries by weirs 
constructed in all the principal rivers of the east coast for 
Irrigation, and the Madras Government in 1869 appointed 
Francis Day to investigate the matter. His deputation was 
afterwards extended to Orissa, and Lower Bengal and subse- 
quently to British Burma and the Andaman Islands. He re- 
ported that the knowledge of the Ichthyology of this part of 
the world was exceedingly imperfect. On this representation 
- Day was appointed Inspector General of Fisheries and 
carried on fishery investigations from 1871 to 1874. The 
Sea fisheries of India. He published his Fishes of India in 
parts, as already mentioned, besides contributing a large num- 
ber of papers to the Zoological Society of London. It is unfor- 
