11 . PREFACE. 



was printed in London, and in it were added some descriptions and figures 

 of rare Cornish fishes, made by the Reverend G. Jago, the minister of Looe 

 in that county. Wallace's " Description of the Islands of Orkney " was 

 published in 1693, and contains an account of some o'f the fish. Dale, in a 

 "History of the Antiquities of Harwich and Doverscourt," 1730, devotes a 

 portion of the appendix (pp. 420-436) to the local fishes. The Reverend 

 W. Borlase, f.r.s., in 1758, published a work on the " Natural History of 

 Cornwall/-' in which a portion of chapter xxiii and three plates refer to 

 fishes. Pennant, in his " Britith'Zoology," 1776, devoted most of volume iii 

 and sixty-six plates to fishes : a second edition of this work -was published 

 with additions after his death in 1812. Donovan, between the years 1802 

 and 1808, brought qut his beautifully illustrated work on "British Fishes," 

 in five volumes, containing' 120 figures and descriptions. G. Shaw, in his 

 "General Zoology," 1800-1819, devotes volumes: iv and v (1803-1804), 

 with 182 plates, to fishes, and has likewise observations on the same subject 

 in the "Naturalist's Miscellany," 1789-1813.' Turton, in his "British 

 , Fauna," 1807, devotes from p. 82 to 117 to fish. Colonel Montagu, in the 

 "Wernerian Memoirs," 1811 and 1818, has some observations and figures 

 of new and little-known British. fishes. Patrick Neill gives a "List of the 

 Fishes found in the Frith of Forth" (pp. 526-555), in the "Wernerian 

 Memoirs," for 1811* • G. and J. Paget, in their "History of Yarmouth," 

 Sogg .in the "Natural History of Stockton-on-Tees," 1829, and -Lubbock 

 in the " Fauna of Norfolk," 1845, refer to the local fishes. In 1813, the 

 "Fauna Orcadensisj" by the Rev. George Low, minister of Birsa and Harray, 

 • appeared ; it had been written between the years 1774 and 1795, and from 

 page 167 to 230 are given to fish. Fleming, in 1828, in a "History of 

 British Animals," devotes pp. 162-222 to descriptions of fishes. In 1828, . 

 Mrs. Bowdich published some plates of British Fresh-water Fishes. . Jenyns, 

 in a "Manual of British Vertebrate Animals," 1835, describes the fishes 

 (pp. 306-524). Yarrell, in 1835, commenced the first edition of his 

 " British Fishes," completed the succeeding year in two volumes, and 

 illustrated with nearly 400 wood engravings; the second edition was 

 published in 1841, and the' third by Sir J. Richardson, f.r.s., in 1859. 

 Pamell published his " prize essay on the natural and economical history of 

 the fishes, marine, fluviatile and lacustrine, of the river district of the Firth 

 of Forth," in the " Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society," vii, 



1838, pp. 161-460, with plates xviii to xliv. Johnston, in 1838,-at the annual 

 meeting of the Berwickshire Naturalist's Club, gave a list of the fishes of that 

 county. Swainson describes " Fishes in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopgedia," 



1839, with figures. Sir W. Jardine, f.r.s., "British Salmonidse," in 1839, 

 with large folio plates. ' Meynell gave a paper on " the Fishes of York- 

 shire" to the British Association in 1844. Dillwyn, on the "Fauna and 



