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CHAPTER XVI. 
Works relating to Fish and Fisheries. 
Tue following list is not meant to be a complete catalogue of all the 
works relating to the subject, for that would be more bulky than 
the rest of the volume. No more is attempted than to give the student 
the names of those books which should be consulted to obtain a mastery 
of the subject, or those which contain useful or interesting information 
about Fish and Fisheries. A few of the very ancient authors are given, 
for they may fall within the reach of students, and they are worth 
consulting if only for the sake of the figures by which they are 
illustrated. Sometimes the figures are rude and even grotesque, but 
often they are master-pieces, and at the worst can be generally 
recognized. Finally, the Australian portion of' the list has been made 
as complete as possible, 
Aristotle, 384 to 322 B.c. History of Animals. A Latin edition, 
with figures, was published in Venice in 1513, folio. 
Marcus Terentius Varro ; born B.c. 126, died B.c. 26. Said to have 
written 500 volumes, but two only extant:—De Re Rustica 
and Analogia, fragments only. In the former there is much 
information about fishes and fish preserves, worth reading even 
at the present day, ; 
Lucius Junius Columella ; De Re Rustica (on Agriculture). This 
is about the most detailed work we have on the Roman Fish 
preserves, from which much may still be learned. 
Plinii Historia naturalis, lib. ix, de aquatilium natura. Pliny’s 
Nat. History, 6 vols. Bostock and Riley’s translation ; Bohn’s 
edit., vol. II. The author died a.p. 79, and the Ist edit. of 
his work was printed in 1469. In the works large numbers 
of Roman authors are quoted at p. 237, only afew of which 
have come down to us. 
Oppian’s Halieutics. (In Greek.) 
Bellonius de aquatilibus. Paris, 1553, folio. 
Rondeletius, de piscibus. Lugd., 1554, folio. 
Salviani aquatilium animalium historiae. Rom., 1554, folio. 
Conr. Gesneri historia piscium, in historia animalium. 1551, folio. 
Steph. a Schonvelde Ichthyologia et nomenclatura animalium 
marinorum, &c. Hamb., 1624, 4to. 
Aldrovandus, de piscibus. Bonon. 1638, folio. 
Jonstonus, de piscibus. 
Franc. Willughby, de historia piscium. Oxf., 1686, folio. 
Jo, Raii, Synopsis methodica piscium. Lond., 1713, 8vo. 
Petr. Artedi; Ichthyologia, cura Carl. Linnaei. Lugd. Bat., 1738, 
8vo, Curd Walbaum; Gryp., 1788, 8vo. Curd Schneider ; 
Leips, 1789, 4to. 
Jac. Theod. Klein ; historia piscium. Gedan., 1742, 4to. 
Marc. Catesby; piscium et serpentum imagines ad naturam 
expressae. London, 1731, folio. 
Laur. Theod. Gronovii; Museum ichthyologicum, lLugd. Bat., 
1745, in 2 vols., folio, 
