PREFACE. Ill 



Flora of Swansea," 1848, chapter iii, from page 11 to 17, being on the local 

 fish-fauna. In 1851, Mr. Adam White and Dr. John Edward Gray, published 

 a " List of the specimens of British Animals in the British Museuin," fish 

 occupying 162- pages. Baker gave a ■ paper on the " Fishes of Somerset- 

 shire," in 1851, to the " Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History 

 Society," in the proceedings of which it is published. Harris, in 1851, 

 published in volume ix of the " Zoologist," a " List of the fishes of the 

 Moray Firth;" Gordon, in 1852, in the same publication, also gave a list of 

 those from the Moray Firth. In the same year Peach gave a paper to 

 the British Association on "Some fishes found at Peterhead." In 1853, 

 W, Baikie gave a list of the "Fishes of the Orkneys and Shetlands," in 

 tho '" Zoologist." Br. A. Gilnther, e.e.s., published between 1859 and 

 1870 a "Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum," in eight 

 volumes. In the appendix to Ferguson's " Natural History of Eedcar," 

 is an account of the fishes of that locality. In 1860, Mrs. Merrifield, 

 in " A sketch of the Natural History of Brighton and its Vicinity," gives 

 a chapter on the " Fishes." In 1861, Mr. Higgins published in the 

 " Zoologist " " Kemarks on some of the fishes of Weston-super-Mare." 

 Couch commenced his " Fishes of the British Isles " in 1862, and 

 completed them in 1865, in three volumes, with 252 coloured plates. 

 In 1864, Gill published in the "Proceedings of 'the Academy of Natural 

 Science of Philadelphia," 1864 (p; 199), a paper "on the affinities of several 

 doubtful British Fishes." Mcintosh, in the "Proceedings of the Royal 



•Society of Edinburgh," volume v, 1862-65,* gave a paper on "the Fishes 

 of North Uist," and in 1874, in a work on "the Marine Invertebrates and 

 Fishes of St. Andrews," describes the latter (pp. 171-185). Br. Bowe ? in the 



. "Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society," 1873-74, 

 published an account of the " Fishes of Norfolk." In 1875, Mr. E. Parfitt, 

 in the " Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and Literature," gave an account of the " Fishes of Devonshire." 

 In 1876, the investigations of. Edward in Banffshire were published in " the 

 Life of a Scotch' Naturalist," and a list in the appendix (pp. 417-429). 

 Mr. G. Sim includes the observations made by tho late Br. Byce, 'in a 

 " Catalogue of fish found in tho vicinity of Aberdeen " in the Transactions 

 of the local Society in 1878. Mr. Bunn, in the "Journal of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall," no. xxii, gave " Remarks upon some Cornish 

 Fishes." Mr. Frank Buckland, in 1873, published a " Familiar History 



of British Fishes," enlarged iu 1880, and termed a " Natural History 



* Subsequent to the publication of part viii of this work and the completion of the addenda, 

 'Dr. Mcintosh kindly forwarded to me a specimen oi-Lvmpenvs lampctrcvformis, which Blennoid 

 had been trawled fifteen miles off St. Abb's head, and the first recorded British specimen (see 

 '■ Proceedings of Zoological Society for June," 1884, with a figure). 



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