4o8 The History of Ichthyology 



lished the fishes collected in Duperrcy's voyage of the Astro- 

 labe. In 1826 Lesson pubhshed the fishes of Dumont D'Ur- 

 \-ille's voyage of the Coquillc. These three great works lie 

 at the foundation of our knoAvledge of the fishes of Polynesia. 

 In 1839 Eydoux and Gervais published an account of the fishes 

 of the voyage of La Favorite. In 1853, also in Paris, Hom- 

 bron and Jacquinot gave an account of the fishes taken in 

 Dumont D'Urville's expedition to the South Pole. In Eng- 

 land, Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), a wise and careful 

 naturalist, wmte of the fishes collected by the SulpJinr (1845), 

 the Erebus and Terror (1846), the Sauiaraiig, and the Herald. 

 Lav and Bennett recorded the species taken by Beechey's 

 voyage on the Blossom. A most useful Avork is the account 

 of the species taken by Charles Darwin on the voyage of the 

 Beagle, prepared by the conscientious hand of Rev. Leonard 

 Jenyns. Still more important and far ranging is the voyage 

 of the Challenger, including the first important work in the deep 

 seas, one stately volume and parts of other volumes on fishes 

 being the work of Dr. Gunther. Other deep-sea work of equal 

 importance has been accomplished in the Atlantic and the 

 Pacific by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. Its 

 results in Central America, Alaska, Japan, Hawaii, as well as 

 off both coasts of the LTnited States, have been made known 

 in different memoirs by Goode and Bean, Gilbert, Garman, 

 Gill, Jordan, Cramer, R^'der, and others. The deep-sea fish 

 collections of the Fisli Irlaiek and the Blake have been studied 

 by Goode and Bean and Garman. 



The deep-sea work of other countries may be briefly 

 noticed. The French vessels Travailleiir and Talisman have 

 made collections chiefly in the ilediterranean and along the 

 coast of Africa, the results liaA'ing been made known by Leon 

 A'aillant. The Hiroudelle about the Azores and elsewhere 

 has furnished material for Professor Robert Collett, of the 

 Uni\-crsity of Christiania. Dr. Decio Adnciguerra, of Rome, 

 has reported on the collections of the ]'iolaiite, a vessel belong- 

 ing t(i the Prince of Monaco. Dr. A. Alcock, of Calcutta, has 

 had charge of the most valuable deep-sea work of the In- 

 vestigator in the Indian Seas. Edgar R. Waite and lames 

 Douglas Ggilbx', of the Australian Museum at Sydney, have 



