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2nd. Of a short notice on the fishes of Victoria in Professor 

 M'Coy's Eeport on the Zoology of the Colony, in the " Inter- 

 colonial Exhibition Essays, 1866-1867." In this paper the 

 learned author has endeavoured to give the scientific names of 

 the common fishes of the market, and in this he has, in general, 

 well succeeded. There are also to be found some interesting 

 observations on several sorts in this essay. 



3rd. A short paper by Dr. Grunther on a few Yictorian sorts 

 in the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1863." 



4rth. Several papers of Sir J. Eichardson in the " Transac- 

 tions of the Zoological Society" (vol. iii.); the Proceedings of 

 the same, 1839-1840 ;" and in the " Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, 1842-1843." 



But if the materials on Australian fishes, published in works 

 particularly devoted to them, are few, on the other hand all 

 the publications made on the Scientific Expeditions sent by 

 England, Erance, and other countries contain numerous descrip- 

 tions and plates of Australian sorts, and Sir J. Eichardson, in 

 the " Ichthyology of the Voyage of the Erelus and Terror" has 

 given a most valuable account of the sorts brought by that 

 expedition from the Antarctic Seas. The work of this celebrated 

 Ichthyologist forms the most valuable contribution to Australian 

 Ichthyology ever published. 



Of the general works on the science, two deserve a special 

 notice. The first is the great " Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" 

 of Cuvier and Valenciennes, which was left incomplete at its 

 22nd volume by the death of the first of its illustrious authors. 

 This work is the base of the science, and not only recapitulates in 

 an admirable maimer all that had previously been published on it 3 

 but describes an immense number of new sorts. It is in this 

 magnificent work that the great Cuvier gives the details of the 

 system of which he had published the outlines in his " Begne 

 Animal." 



The second is Dr. Grunther's " Catalogue of the Eishes of the 

 British Museum," complete in eight volumes. This work is one 

 of the most remarkable productions of modern science, and 

 places its author high amongst zoologists. Dr. Grunther follows 

 Cpvier's system, but amends it considerably, and it must be 



